GCSE HISTORY - COLD WAR 1945-1972 (dates)

When was the Tehran conference?

When was the Yalta conference?

When did Roosevelt die?

When did Hitler kill himself?

When did Germany surrender?

When was the Potsdam conference?

When was the bombing of Hiroshima?

When was the bombing of Nagasaki?

When did Japan surrender?

In what year were the secret telegrams?

When did Churchill give the Iron Curtain speech?

When was the Truman Doctrine put in place?

When was the Marshall Plan put in place?

When was cominform set up?

When was comecon set up?

When was NATO formed?

When was the Warsaw Pact formed?

In what years was the Berlin Blockade?

When was Bizonia created?

When was Trizonia created?

When was the Deutschmark introduced to Bizonia?

When did Stalin start the Berlin Blockade?

When did the airlift into Berlin begin?

When did Stalin call of the blockade?

In what years was the Korean War?

When did North Korea invade South Korea?

When did the US send troops to help South Korea?

When did China invade Korea?

When did the Korean war end in a stalemate with the Korean Armistice being signed?

When did Vietnam become independent?

When did Vietnam split into North and South?

When was the Tet offensive?

When was the ceasefire (Vietnam war) signed in Paris?

When did Mao Zedong announce the founding of the People's Republic of China?

When was the Sino-Soviet treaty signed?

When did the USSR successfully launch Sputnik 1?

When did the Russian Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?

When did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk the moon?

In what year was the Manhattan project?

When did the USSR create an atom bomb?

When did the USA develop the hydrogen bomb?

When did Stalin die?

In what year did Khrushchev take power?

When was the Geneva summit?

In what year did the process of de-stalinisation begin?

When was the hardline Stalinist Rakosi get removed after protests in Hungary?

When were the protests demanding that Nagy becomes leader?

When was a statue of Stalin pulled down by protesters in Budapest?

When did Nagy become leader?

When did Soviet troops leave Hungary and Krushchev allowed Nagy to be leader?

When did Nagy say that Hungary will leave the Warsaw Pact?

When did Soviet troops enter Budapest with 1000 tanks and 20000 Hungarians were killed, with Nagy being replaced by the hardline Kadar?

When did Khrushchev denounce Stalin's policies?

When did Khrushchev say the death of Rajk was an injustice and reinstate Nagy as leader, replacing Rakosi?

When were 1000 tanks sent into Hungary by the Red Army?

In what year did the U2 planes start flying?

When was Gary Powers shot down in the U2 spy plane?

When was the Berlin Wall put up?

When did Soviet tanks pull up to Checkpoint Charlie (Berlin Wall) and refuse to allow access to the East?

When did Batista's army try to fight Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains?

When did Castro enter the Cuban capital, Havana?

When did JFK break off relations with Cuba?

When was the Bay of Pigs?

When was JFK informed of the missile build up in Cuba?

When did JFK decide on a blockade of Cuba?

When did Kennedy announce the blockade of Cuba and call on the Soviet Union to withdraw its missiles?

When did JFK receive a letter from Khrushchev saying that Soviet ships would not observe the blockade?

When did the Cuban blockade begin?

When did JFK receive a letter from Khrushchev saying that the missiles were purely defensive?

When did JFK receive a letter from Khrushchev revising his proposals saying that if the US removes the missiles from Turkey, the USSR would remove the missiles from Cuba? (an American U2 plane is shot down over Cuba. JFK is advised to launch an attack)

When did JFK decide to delay the attack on Cuba? (he accepts terms of Khrushchev from 26th Oct letter)

When did Khrushchev accept JFK's offer?

When did Kennedy announce the end of the Cuban missile crisis?