Cold War timeline of essential dates
When did the USA implement a naval blockade in Cuba? (day month and year)
22nd of October 1962
When was the Deutschmark implemented in Trizonia? (day, month, and year)
23rd of June 1948
When did the Berlin Blockade start? (day, month, and year)
24th of June 1948
When did the Berlin Airlift start? (day, month, and year)
26th of June 1948
When did Khrushchev and Kennedy reach a truce after the Cuban Missile Crisis? (day, month, and year)
28th of October 1962
When did WW11 end? (day, month, and year)
2nd of September 1945
When were Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed? (day, month, and year)
6th of August 1945, 9th August 1945
When was NATO formed? (month and year)
April 1949
What year did the Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin become the first man to enter space?
1961
What year was the Berlin Wall built?
1961
What year was the Test Ban Treaty signed?
1963
What year did America become involved in the Vietnam War?
1964
What year was the Brezhnev Doctrine released?
1968
What year was the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty signed?
1968
What year was the Prague Spring?
1968
What year was the Tet Offensive?
1968
What year was the Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements (SALT 1) signed?
1969
When did the Americans leave the Vietnam War?
1973
When was the Yalta conference? (month and year)
February 1945
When was the Potsdam conference? (month and year)
July-August 1945
What year did Winston Churchill make the Iron curtain speech? (aka the Fulton Speech)
1946
What year was Cominform made?
1947
What year did Yugoslavia break with Cominform?
1948
What year was the Marshall Plan signed off by President Truman?
1948
What year was Comecon made?
1949
In what year did North Korea invade South Korea?
1950
In what year did the USA detonate its first hydrogen bomb?
1952
In what year did the Korean War end?
1953
In what year did the USSR detonate its first hydrogen bomb?
1953
What year did Stalin die?
1953
What year was the Warsaw Pact formed?
1955
What year was the rebellion against Khrushchev in Hungary?
1956
What year did the USSR launch the first Sputnik?
1957
What year did Fidel Castro lead a communist revolution in Cuba?
1959
What year was the U2 spy plane shot down?
1960
When was the Truman Doctrine released? (month and year)
March 1947
When did the Berlin Blockade end? (month and year)
May 1949