KEY DATES: Source

Question 1

Origins: What happens in 1947?

Answer 1

Truman Doctrine

Question 2

Transformation: What happens in 1959?

Answer 2

• Cuban Revolution
• Khrushchev goes to America

Question 3

Transformation: What happens in 1968?

Answer 3

• Prague Spring
• Brezhnev Doctrine
• Nuclear non-proliferation
• MIRVs created + NUTS policy

Question 4

Developments: What happens in 1956?

Answer 4

Hungarian Uprising + Stalin Statue pulled down

Question 5

Transformation: What happened in 1962?

Answer 5

Cuban Missile Crisis - 16th Oct to 28th Oct

Question 6

Transformation: What happened in 1963?

Answer 6

Partial Test Ban Treaty - bans testing on nuclear powers except underground

Question 7

Transformation: What happens in 1948?

Answer 7

• Sovietisation of Czechoslovakia
• Also by then Hungary, Romania, Albania all sovietised
• Berlin Blockade

Question 8

Transformation: What happens in 1961?

Answer 8

• Berlin Wall; Checkpoint Charlie - 18 hour stand off
• Bay of Pigs