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Flashcards by Meg Robinson, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Yalta conference | February 1945 |
| Potsdam conference | July-August 1945 |
| Hiroshima bombed | 6th August 1945 |
| Kennan's long telegram | February 1945 |
| Iron curtain speech | March 1946 |
| Baruch Plan failed | 1947 |
| Truman Doctrine launched | March 1947 |
| Marshall Plan | June 1947-1952 |
| Cominform established | September 1947 |
| Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia | February 1948 |
| Berlin Blockade | June 1948-May 1949 |
| NATO established | April 1949 |
| Communists takeover China | September 1949 |
| NSC-68 | 1950 |
| Sino-Soviet alliance/ Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed | February 1950 |
| Korean War | 1950-53 |
| USA test hydrogen bomb | November 1952 |
| Death of Stalin | March 1953 |
| Eisenhower becomes president and introduces New Look policy | January 1953 |
| Berlin Rising | June 1953 |
| Dulles announced massive retaliation | January 1954 |
| SEATO formed | 1954 |
| Geneva Conference | April-July 1954 |
| Taiwan Straits Crisis | September 1954 |
| Khrushchev's first visit to Beijing | October 1954 |
| USAs first intercontinental bombers | 1955 |
| Warsaw Pact established | May 1955 |
| Geneva Summit | July 1955 |
| Austrian State Treaty | 1955 |
| Peaceful Coexistence | 1956 |
| Suez Canal Crisis | 1956 |
| USSR first TU20 Bear Intercontinental bomber | 1956 |
| Soviets withdraw from Finland | 1956 |
| Khrushchev's secret speech | February 1956 |
| Demonstrations in Poland, Khrushchev agreed to economic reforms | February 1956 |
| Tanks sent to Hungary to supress demonstration | June 1956 |
| Hungarian Uprising | October 1956 |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | 1957 |
| Eisenhower warned of missile gap | November 1957 |
| Sputnik | 1957 |
| 2nd Berlin Crisis | November 1958 |
| 2nd Taiwan Straits Crisis | August 1958 |
| CENTO Pact | 1958-1979 |
| Khrushchev criticised Great Leap Forward | 1958 |
| Cuban Revolution | 1959 |
| Camp David Summit and Khrushchev's US visit | September 1959 |
| Sino-Soviet Agreement on atomic cooperation cancelled | June 1959 |
| Paris Summit, U2 plane incident | May 1960 |
| Berlin Wall/ 3rd Berlin Crisis | 1961 |
| 4th Berlin Crisis | 1961 |
| US terminates trade with Cuba | 1961 |
| Kennedy becomes US President | January 1961 |
| Yuri Gagarin 1st man in space | April 1961 |
| Bay of Pigs | April 1961 |
| Vienna Summit | June 1961 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | October 1962 |
| Hot line link established | June 1963 |
| Nuclear Test ban treaty | June 1963 |
| China 1st Nuclear Bomb Test | October 1964 |
| First US combat forces in Vietnam | 1965 |
| Prague Spring | 1968 |
| Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia | August 1968 |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | September 1968 |
| Ussuri river disputes | 1969 |
| European Ostopolitik, Berlin Agreement | 1970-71 |
| Ping Pong Diplomacy | April 1971 |
| SALT 1: Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty and Interim Agreement on Offensive Missiles signed | 1972 |
| Basic Principles Agreement signed | 1972 |
| Nixon went to a Summit in China, communique issued | February 1972 |
| Vladivostok Framework agreed upon | 1974 |
| President Ford visited China | 1975 |
| Helsinki Accords | 1975 |
| Jackson-Vanik Amendment | January 1975 |
| Apollo-Soyuz link up | July 1975 |
| Official US recognition of PRC, withdrew support from Taiwan | 1978 |
| Soviet invasion of Afghanistan | December 1979 |
| SALT II signed | 1979 |
| Strike by Solidarity | 1980 |
| Martial Law in Poland | December 1980 |
| SDI/ Star Wars Initiative announced | 1983 |
| Gorbachev made it clear he wouldn't enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine | 1985 |
| Geneva Summit | November 1985 |
| Chernobyl Disaster in Ukraine | April 1986 |
| Reykjavik Summit | September 1986 |
| Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty | December 1987 |
| Hungary becomes independent | September 1989 |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | November 1989 |
| Solidarity beat Communist Party in general elections | 1989 |
| Vaclav Havel elected president of Czechoslovakia | 1989 |
| Ceausescu and his wife were executed | 25th December 1989 |
| Reunification of Germany | October 1990 |
| Official recognition of end of Soviet Union | 25th December 1991 |
| Bankruptcy of USSR declared | 25th December 1991 |
| Red army decreased from 5.8-3.7 million men | Mid 50s |
| US military spending 12% of GNP | Mid 50s |
| CIA backed coup against left-wing Guatemalan president | 1954 |
| Eisenhower's Domino Theory | 1954 |
| PRC established | 1949 |
| 6 fold increase in Sino-Soviet trade | 1950-56 |
| 60% of Chinese trade was with USSR | 1956 |
| 2 more agreements between China and USSR promising more trade, Lushan naval base and further aid including a bigger loan | 1954 and 1955 |
| Khrushchev proposed joint control of China's nuclear weapons | 1958 |
| Khrushchev proposed a Pacific atom free zone | January 1959 |
| Khrushchev's first visit to China, swimming pool photo op | 1958 |
| Khrushchev's second visit to China: no guard of honor or microphone, public insults | 1959 |
| Khrushchev withdrew economic advisers from China | 1960 |
| Mao publicised Khrushchev backing down in the Cuban missile crisis | 1963 |
| China had its first nuclear test | 1964 |
| No trade or diplomatic links except to get arms to Vietnam | March 1966 |
| Ma called Soviet system "a product of revisionist traitors" | 1960 |
| Khrushchev announced a new doctrine saying the class struggle was over | 1961 |
| Sin-Indian border conflict, USSR sent India $800 million in aid | 1962 |
| Sino-Indonesian border conflict: Soviet military aid sent to Indonesia | 1959-62 |
| Red Guards crossed Soviet border, Brezhnev posted 15 divisions of the Russian army there | 1968 |
| Red Guards occupied island of Damanskii (disputed territory) small-scale fighting broke out, resolution reached when senior ministers from each side agreed to respect borders | 1969 |
| Both China and USSR sent military assistance to third world countries | 1960s |
| China encouraged Romania and Albania (in soviet sphere of influence) to be more independent | 1960s |
| China was number one enemy in US | 1949-late 60s |
| US was on the verge of a red scare | 1949 |
| No trade, diplomatic links or sporting competition between China and US | 50s and 60s |
| Kennedy discussed taking advantage of Sino-Soviet split, ruled out due to Vietnam war | Early 60s |
| China had only 3 real allies: France, Pakistan and Albania | 1969 |
| Nixon relaxed trade and travel restrictions with China and initiated a secret dialogue with Mao through Pakistan | 1969 |
| China invites US ping pong team to play an international match in China | 1971 |
| US backed PRC's entry into UN | 1971 |
| Kissinger visited China to secretly arrange for a presidential visit the next year | 1971 |
| Dulles refused to shake hands with Zhou Enlai | 1954 |
| Trade between China and US increased from $5 million per year to $500 million per year | 1969-1975 |
| Us officially recognised PRC | 1979 |
| Taiwan expelled from UN security council with US backing | 1971 |
| Kissenger visited China but couldn't reach agreements on Taiwan | 1975 |
| USSR began to close the missile gap | 1963-9 |
| Point of MAD reached | 1969 |
| Vietnam war cost $30 million this year | 1969 |
| The post-war boom was coming to an end | 1970 |
| Inflation in the US reached 6% | 1970 |
| Unemployment in the US rose to more than 5% | Early 70s |
| End of Bretton Woods currency system, making international trade less stable | Early 70s |
| Economy of USSR roughly a sixth the size of that of the US | Early 70s |
| Estimated stockpiles of nuclear warheads: US-28,200 USSR-11,000 | 1969 |
| Anti-ballistic missile treaty limited each nation to two missile shields each consisting of 100 missiles | 1972 |
| Interim agreement on offensive missiles limited stockpiles to: USSR-1618 missile launchers and USA- 1054 | 1972 |
| Berlin Agreement- guaranteed borders of West Germany | 1970-71 |
| OPEC oil crisis | 1973 |
| Return to oil price stability | 1974-78 |
| GDP of USSR 37% that of US | By 1980 |
| USSR increased imports from West by 96% | 1974-75 |
| US defense spending went from $404 billion to $284 billion | 1970-76 |
| Economic growth in USSR continued to decline despite detente | 1970-76 |
| Brezhnev's 1976 Party Congress speech spoke favorably of Detente | 1976 |
| Carter rejected Vladivostok framework; replacing the negotiating team and demanding lower ceilings | 1977 |
| Carter jeopardised SALT II talks by announcing a new nuclear project | 1978 |
| Grain embargo against USSR | 1980 |
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