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Cold War Dates Quiz

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National Security Council adopts NSC-68
1950
Truman Doctrine Issued
1947
Gulf of Tonkin
1964
SALT 1 Signed
1972
KGB Established
1954
Korean War Begins
1950
SALT II Signed
1979
Construction for Berlin Wall Begins
1961
Iranian Intervention
1953
NATO created
1949
Chinese explode their first nuclear device
1964
Viet Min organized
1941
The Vienna Summit
1961
Height of the Red Scare
1953-1954
Stalin dies
1953
Rio Pact
1947
Suez War
1956
Geneva Agreement divides Vietnam at 17th parallel
1954
Vietnamization / Guam Doctrine
1970
Army coup overthrows and murders Diem
1963
Nixon takes office
1969
Truman takes office
1945
U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet Union
1960
Comicon established
1949
South Vietnam gov't surrenders
1975
Korean War ends
1953
Potsdam Conference
1945
Eisenhower takes office
1953
Marshall Plan
1947
The Berlin Conference
1954
Vietnam War extended into Cambodia
1970
Bay of Pigs
1961
Kennedy assassinated
1963
Berlin Blockade
1948-1949
Iron Curtain Speech
1946
Batista seizes control in Cuba
1952
German Federal Republic (West) and German Democratic Republic (East) created
1949
Yalta Conference (Roosevelt)
1945
Kennedy takes office
1961
Yugoslav Crisis
1948
Nixon Resigns / Ford takes over
1974
Mao and Stalin conclude treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance
1950
SEATO created
1954
"Peace with Honor" Truce in Vietnam
1973
Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War
1947
Limited Test Ban Treaty
1963
French order Ho Chi-minh's gov't to leave Hanoi. Set up Bao Dai as puppet.
1946
Tet Offensive
1968
U.S. stops Lend-Lease shipments to Soviet Union
1945
Mao proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China
1949
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Castro's "26th of July Movement" revolutionaries overthrow Batista, who flees. Castro becomes head of government.
1959
Johnson takes office
1963
VietCong is formed and demands democratic gov't
1960
French defeated at Dien Bien Phu
1954
Baruch plan accepted by UN; rejected by USSR.
1946
Soviets detonate their first nuclear device
1949
Alliance For Progress Introduced
1961
British and U.S. German Occupation zones fused into Bizonia
1947
Eisenhower breaks diplomatic ties with Cuba
1961
Warsaw Pact created
1955
Geneva Conference
1961-1962

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