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June 1941

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Hitler’s attack on the USSR:Grand alliance

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November 1943

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Tehran conference

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February 1945

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Yalta Conference

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May 1945

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VE day

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July 1945

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Potsdam Conference

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August 1945

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USA use atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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February 1946

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Kennan’s Long Telegram

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March 1946

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Churchill Iron curtain speech

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September 1946

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Novikov Telegram

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January 1947

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Communist government set up in Poland

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March 1947

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Truman Doctrine

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June 1947

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Marshall Aid

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September 1947

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1st Cominform meeting

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February 1948

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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

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June 1948

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Stalin orders blockade of Berlin (Last until May 1949)

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January 1949

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Comecon established

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April 1949

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NATO formed

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August 1949

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USSR test a bomb

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Communist take over China

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1949

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Permanent division of Germany into East and West

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1949

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Korean war

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1950-53

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USA develop H bomb

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1952

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Eisenhower became president of USA

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1953

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Death of Stalin

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1953

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USSR Develop H bomb
1953
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Soviets leave Austria and Geneva Summits
1955
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West Germany Join NATO
1955
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Soviets create warsaw pack
1955
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Nikita Khrushev emerges as soviet leader
1956
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October 1956
Hungarian uprising
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November 4
Hungarian uprising is crushed by Soviets
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USA AND USSR both develop ICBMs
1957
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July 1958
Execution of Imre Nagy
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3 millionEast Germans fled to the west since 1945
1958
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November 1958
Khrushchev gives west ultimatum to leave Berlin in 6 months
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January 1959
Cuban revolution
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May 1959
Geneva summit meeting in Berlin
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May 1959
Castro nationalise foreign owned land and business in Cuba
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September 1959
Camp David summit
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February 1960
Castro makes trade deal with Khrushchev
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May 1969
U2 Crisis-American U2 plane shot down by soviets
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Paris summit- Khrushchev walks out in protest of US spying
May 1960
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January 1961
USA breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba
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April 1961
Bay of pigs Invasion-CIA attempted to overthrow Castro
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June 1961
Vienna summit
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August 1961
Construction of Berlin wall begins
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September 1961
Castro declares Cuba communists;soviet arms deal with cuba
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October 14 1962
U2 Plane photographs soviet missiles silos on Cuba
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October 16 1962
Kennedy sets up ExComm:13 days of CMC begins
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October 22 1962
Kennedy announces naval blockade of Cuba
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October 28 1962
Khrushchev agrees to remove soviet missiles from Cuba
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June 1963
Telephone hotline
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June 1963
Kennedy vists Berlin" ich bin ein Berliner"
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August 1963
Nuclear test ban treaty-prohibits nuclear tests in space air and sea
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Khrushchev is dismissed and replaced with Leonid Brezhev
1964
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1967
Outer space treaty-bans military activity's in space
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January 1968
Alexander Dubcek becomes leader of Czechoslovakia
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July 1968
Non profit treaty-only 5 countries own nuclear weapons
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April 1968
Dubcek begins Prague Springs reforms
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August 1968
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
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September 1968
Soviet newspaper Pravda publishes the Brezhnev Doctrine
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April 1969
Dubeck dismissed

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