AQA A-level History Cold War dates 2023 with complete solution questions and answers

Feb 1945 Yalta conference May 1945 Germany surrenders Jul 1945 Potsdam Confrence Aug 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki Sept 1945 Japanese Surrender Feb 1946 Kennan's long telegram March 1946 Iron curtain speech March 1947 Truman Doctrine begins June 1947 Marshall plan 1948 Berlin Blockade & Airlift Apr 1949 NATO formed May 1949 Berlin blockade ends May 1949 FRG created Aug 1949 USSR successfully test atomic bomb Oct 1949 Communist Victory in China 1949 GDR formed June 1950 N. Korean invasion of S. Korea 1950 UN intervention in Korean War 1952 Eisenhower elected president March 1953 Stalin dies July 1953 Armistice signed regarding Korean War May 1955 Warsaw Pact formed 1956 Khrushchev consolidates power in USSR Feb 1956 Secret Speech June-Oct 1956 Polish rising Oct-Nov 1956 Hungarian rising 1958 Berlin Crisis Jan 1959 Castro takes power in Cuba May 1960 U2 affair Nov 1960 JFK elected president April 1961 Bay of pigs Aug 1961 Berlin Wall extracted Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Aug 1963 Moscow test ban treaty Nov 1963 Kennedy assassinated Johnson becomes president Aug 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution Oct 1964 China successfully detonates atom bomb 1964 Khrushchev resigns, replaced by Brezhnev Jan-Feb 1968 Tet offensive May-Aug Warsaw Pact tanks invade Czechoslovakia Nov 1968 Nixon elected 1968 Brezhnev doctorine 1969 Arms limitations talks between USA & USSR begin & Sino-Soviet border clashes May 1972 SALT I ratified Jan 1973 Paris peace agreement March 1973 US troops withdraw from Vietnam Sept 1973 Allende overthrown in Chile replaced by Pinochet Aug 1974 Resignation of Nixon, Ford becomes president April 1975 Fall of Saigon, reunification of Vietnam 1975 Khmer Rouge victory in Cambodian Civil war Nov 1976 Carter elected President 1979 Sandanista victorh in Nicaraguan revolution Dec 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Nov 1980 Reagan elected president Dec 1981 Martial law declared in Poland Nov 1982 Brezhnev does succeeded by Andropov March 1983 Reagan announces SDI Oct 1983 US invasion of Grenada Feb 1984 Andropov dies replaced by Chernenko March 1985 Chernenko dies replaced by Gorbachev Nov 1985 Geneva summit between Gorbachev and Reagan 1986 Glasnost & Perestroika introduced April 1986 Chernobyl reactor explosion Oct 1986 Reykjavik Summit between Gorbachev & Reagan Dec 1987 Washington summit between Gorbachev & Reagan May-June 1988 Moscow summit between Gorbachev & Reagan Nov 1988 H.W Bush elected president Feb 1989 Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan June 1989 Poland holds free elections 9 Nov 1989 Berlin Wall comes down Dec 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Haval becomes president Oct 1990 German reunification Dec 1991 End of Soviet Union