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