Cards (53)

  • Second World War begins
    1939
  • Grand Alliance between Britain, USA, and Soviet Union
    1941
  • Germany invades Soviet Union
    1941
  • Tehran Conference
    1943
  • Potsdam conference
    July 1945
  • End of WW2
    1945
  • First successful US atomic bomb test
    1945
  • USA detonates atomic bombs over Japan
    1945
  • Yalta conference
    February 1945
  • Kennan's long telegram
    1946
  • Novikov telegram
    1946
  • Chruchill makes 'Iron Curtain' speech at Fulton, Missouri
    1946
  • Communist government in Poland
    1947
  • Formation of Cominform
    1947
  • Marshall plan announced
    1947
  • Truman Doctrine
    1947
  • Communist government in Czechoslovakia
    1948
  • Berlin Blockade
    1948
  • Comecon set up
    1949
  • Formation of German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
    1949
  • NATO set up
    1949
  • Formation of Federal Republic of Germany
    1949
  • Formation of Warsaw Pact
    1955
  • Hungarian Uprising
    1956
  • Geneva Summit
    1959
  • Camp David Summit
    1959
  • Socialist revolution in Cuba overthrows President Batista
    1959
  • Berlin Wall built
    1961
  • Vienna Summit
    1961
  • Bay of Pigs incident
    1961
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
    1962
  • Limited Test Ban Treaty
    1963
  • President Kennedy visits Berlin
    1963
  • Outer Space Treaty
    1967
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
    1968
  • Brezhnev Doctrine
    1968
  • Warsaw Pact troops put down Prague Spring
    1968
  • SALT 1 agreement
    1972
  • Helsinki agreement
    1975
  • Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
    1979