Cold War Revision: Key Dates and Events
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Created by:
inborgers on December 12, 2011
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For IB History SL students. Includes origins of Cold War, Korean War & Vietnam War.
Classes:
Cold War History, NLRHS IB History, IB HIstory Cold War Study
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53 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 February 4 - 11, 1945 | Yalta Conference |
| April 1945 | Roosevelt dies, Truman replaces him |
| July 1945 | Potsdam Conference |
| August 6 and 8, 1945 | Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima |
| 1945 - 1946 (Post-War) | Nationalist and pro-Communist rebellions in Greece |
| March 1946 | Iron Curtain Speech |
| March 12, 1947 | Truman Doctrine |
| June 1947 | Marshall Plan |
| February 1948 | Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia |
| June 24, 1948 | Berlin Blockade starts |
| April 1949 | NATO ratified |
| May 12, 1949 | Berlin Blockade ends |
| August 1949 | Soviets explode first atomic bomb |
| September 1949 | China becomes Communist |
| February 1950 | The Red Scare/McCarthyism |
| June 1950 | Korean War begins |
| September 1950 (Phase One of KW) | American troops land in Inchon, South Korea |
| October 1950 (Phase Two of KW) | South Korea (with Americans) cross 38th parallel to China |
| November 1950 (Phase Three of KW) | Chinese army push UN forces back to South Korea |
| December 1950 - 1951 | UN forces push North Koreans back to 38th parallel |
| January 20, 1953 | Truman steps out of power, Eisenhower made president |
| March 5, 1953 | Stalin dies |
| July 1953 | Korean War ends |
| 1945 - 1954 | French fighting the Vietminh |
| July 1954 | French defeated at Diem Bien Phu |
| May 1955 | Warsaw Pact formed |
| October 23 - November 10, 1956 | Hungarian Uprising |
| October 4th, 1957 | USSR launch first satellite, Sputnik |
| November 1958 | Khrushchev's Ultimatum |
| January 1959 | Fidel Castro takes over Cuba |
| May 1960 | US spy plane shot down over Soviet territory |
| December 1960 | Cuba adopts Soviet policies |
| January 3, 1961 | US terminates trade with Cuba |
| November 1960 | John F. Kennedy elected into presidency |
| January 1961 | John F. Kennedy starts work in office |
| April 1961 | Bay of Pigs |
| August 13, 1961 | Berlin border closed |
| August 17, 1961 | Construction of Berlin Wall begins |
| 1962 | US involvement in Vietnam increases |
| October 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis intensified |
| July 1963 | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed |
| November 1963 | John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas |
| August 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
| July 1965 | 150, 000 US troops are announced to be dispatched to Vietnam |
| March 1965 | Operation Rolling Thunder |
| January 1968 | North Vietnam start TET Offensive |
| August 1968 | Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt |
| November 1968 | Richard Nixon elected as US President |
| May 1972 | Nixon attends Paris Peace Conference |
| July 1972 | Salt 1 |
| January 1973 | Ceasefire between North Vietnam & US |
| August 1974 | Nixon resigns |
| April 17, 1975 | North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam |
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