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AP Euro Cold war etc.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1945 | United Nations Est. |
| 1946 | Churchhill's Iron Curtain speech; Cold War begins; Indo-China war begins; Nuremburg war crimes trials |
| 1947 | Truman Dcotrine; Marshall Plan; containment policy; British quit India |
| 1948 | Commies take over Czechoslovakia; Tito breaks with USSR, state of Israel established; first Arab-Israeli War |
| 1949 | NATO; Chinese People's Republica est.; Dutch leave Indonesia; Konrad Adenauer becomes chancellor of W. Germany; first Soviet a-bomb |
| 1950 | Koran War begins |
| 1951 | European Coal and Steel community; Japanese peace treaty |
| 1952 | King Farouk ovethrown in Egypt; Elizabeth II's reign begins |
| 1953 | Stalin dies; East Berlin uprising |
| 1954 | Dien Bien Phu; Geneva Accords end Indo-China War; revolt against French in Algeria |
| 1955 | Austrain peace treaty; Warsaw Pact; Bandung Conference |
| 1956 | Suez crisis; Polish and Hungarian uprisings put down by Soviets; Khrushchev's Twentieth Part Congress speech |
| 1957 | First Sputnik lanuched, Treaty of Rome (European Common Market) |
| 1958 | Charles de Gaulle heads 5th Republic, Eisenhower Doctrine |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro in Cuba |
| 1960 | Beligian withdrawal from Congo=civil war |
| 1961 | Bay of Pigs; Berlin Wall; Portughese leave Goa |
| 1962 | Cuban missile crisis, Sino-Soviet split, French leave Algeria |
| 1963 | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Common Market |
| 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin incident; Cyprus ciris; Khrushchev ousted |
| 1966 | GReat Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China |
| 1967 | Six Day War |
| 1968 | TET offensive; student demonstrations |
| 1972 | SALT I Treaty |
| 1973 | US troops leave Vietnam; Ypm Kippur War; Arab oil embargo |
| 1974 | Turkey invades Cyprus; dictatorship overthrown in Greece |
| 1975 | Helsinki Accords; end of Viewnam War; end of Portuguese rule in Africa; death of Franco in Spain |
| 1977 | Nuclear non-proliferation treaty |
| 1978 | shah overthrow in Iran |
| 1979 | SALT II Treaty (not ratified); Margaret Thatcher; Camp David Accords; Saddam Hussein |
| 1980 | Iranian hostage crisis; Iran-Iraq War begins |
| 1982 | Israel invades Lebanon |
| 1985 | Gorbachev and perestroika |
| 1989 | Collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe |
| 1990 | Iraq invades Kuwait |
| 1991 | Persian Gulf War |
| Berlin airlift | an operation by British and American aircraft to airlift food and supplies to Berlin in 1948–9, while Russian forces blockaded the city to isolate it from the West and terminate the joint Allied military government of the city. |
| Berlin Wall | a fortified and heavily guarded wall built in 1961 by the communist authorities on the boundary between East and West Berlin, chiefly to curb the flow of East Germans to the West. It was opened in November 1989. |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | Leonid ________ asserted that the Soviet Union had the right to use military force to maintain the rule of the Communist Party in nearby socialist countries. Used to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 after Alexander Dubek introduced reforms. |
| Cold War | a state of political hostility existing between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers after the Second World War. |
| Containment policy | The policy of preventing the extension of Communism by means of regional military pacts , clandestine operations, nuclear deterrence, and the disbursement of overseas aid and investment. Keenan's idea. |
| détente | from 1962 until 1979, when the USA and the USSR established better diplomatic relations and direct lines of communication. Attempts were made at disarmament, and Brandt's Ostpolitik & Helsinki Conference in 1975(human rights). |
| European Economic Community | an institution of the EU, economic association of western European countries set up by the Treaty of Rome (1957). The original members were France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. |
| Helsinki Accords | The Helsinki Accords of 1975 are a diplomatic agreement among thirty-five states that exerted significant influence on its communist signatories in the field of human rights . |
| Marshall Plan | US programme of economic aid to European countries after World War II. Promoted by US Secretary of State _____. Purposes: repair war damage, promote trade within Europe, secure political stability. The Soviet Union and E European countries rejected it |
| Nuremberg trials | Trials of Germans accused of war crimes during World War II, held before a military tribunal. The tribunal was established by the USA, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Ten Nazi leaders were executed (including von Ribbentrop ). |
| perestroika | the policy or practice of reforming the economic and political system, practised in the 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| glasnost | the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 . |
| Prague Spring | a brief period of liberalization in Czechoslovakia, ending in August 1968 , during which a programme of political, economic, and cultural reform was initiated under Alexander Dubcek. Ended w/Soviet invasion. |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | a series of negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union aimed at the limitation or reduction of nuclear armaments, which produced the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. The talks were organized from 1968 onwards and held in stages until 1983. |
| SALT I | In 1972, Richard Nixon and Brezhnev signed ___ = limited anti-ballistic missile systems and interim accord on ICBMs. Second phase of meetings between Gerald Ford and Brezhnev = agreement (1974) limit ballistic missile launchers. |
| SALT II | signed in Vienna between Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev, banned new ICBMs and limited other launchers. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan meant the US Senate never ratified the treaty. |
| Strategic Arms Reduction Talks | a series of arms-reduction negotiations between between Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan begun in 1983 . The Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was signed in 1987 and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in 1991 . |
| Schuman Plan | A proposal by the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. It aimed to pool the coal and steel industries of France and Germany. The Plan became effective in 1952 with the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community. Britain declined. Led to the EEC |
| Truman Doctrine | the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. |
| Wirtschaftswunder | an economic miracle, especially the economic recovery of the Federal Republic of West Germany after the Second World War. |
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