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Flashcards: Cold War Imprortant Dates
The grand alliance starts
1941
Teheran Conferance
November 1943
Yalta Conference
February 1945
Potsdam Conference
July 1945
Long Telegram
febuary 1946
Iron Curtain Speech
March 1946
Novikov Telegram
November 1946
Truman Doctrine
March 1947
Marshall Plan
June 1947
Cominform
October 1947
Bizonia
January 1948
Trizonia
June 1948
Berlin Blockade
June 1948
Berlin Airlift
June 1948 - May 1949
Comecon
January 1949
NATO created
April 1949
Creation of FRG (federal republic of Germany, west)
May 1949
Creation of GDR (German democratic republic, east)
October 1949
Korean War
1950-1953
Stalin died
March 1953
Creation of SEATO
September 1954
West Germany joins NATO
May 1955
The Warsaw Pact
May 1955
Soviet invasion of Hungary
November 1956
U-2 Spy Plane incident
May 1960
Bay of Pigs Invasion
April 1961
Berlin Wall
August 1961
the '13 Days' began
October 1962
US naval blockade around Cuba
October 1962
End of Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962
Hotline established
June 1963
Partial Test Ban Treaty
August 1963
Outer Space Treaty
January 1967
'Prague Spring' reforms begin
April 1968
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
July 1968
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
August 1968
Brezhnev Doctrine
September 1968
Ping Pong Diplomacy
1971
SALT 1
May 1972