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COLD WAR DATES
Important events by year
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1958 | Refugee problem East to West Berlin |
| 1959 | Cuban Revolution |
| 1961 | Eisenhower banned sugar trade Bay of Pigs Berlin Wall built |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1963 | Hotline set up Washington to Moscow Test Ban Treaty |
| 1968 | Prague Spring Brezhnev Doctrine Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty |
| 1956 | Hungarian Uprising Khrushchev new leader USSR |
| 1955 | Geneva Summit Warsaw Pact created |
| 1953 | Stalin died Eisenhower became USA president |
| 1950-1953 | Korean War |
| 1949 | NATO created FDR and GDR created Berlin Blockade lifted Comecon created |
| 1948 | Berlin crisis and blockade |
| 1945 | Yalta Potsdam Atomic Bomb deployed Japan |
| 1947 | Truman Doctrine Cominform |
| 1948-1952 | Marshall plan of economic aid |
| Arms Race 1945 | USSR develops atomic bomb USA uses atomic bomb in Japan |
| Arms Race 1949 | USSR develops atomic bomb |
| Arms Race 1952 | USA develops H bomb |
| Arms Race 1953 | USSR develops H bomb |
| Arms Race 1957 | USA develops the ICBM USSR develops ICBMs |
| FDR | Federal Republic of Germany-West Germany |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic- East Germany |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
| ICBM | Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile |