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ALL COLD WAR DATES Flashcards

1
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When was Yalta

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Feburary 1945

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When was Potsdam

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July 1945

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When was Hiroshima / Nagasaki

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August 1945

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When did Japan surrender WW2

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September 1945

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5
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When was the Long Telegram

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Feburary 1946

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When was the Iron Curtain speech?

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March 1946 (Missouri)

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When was the Truman doctrine?

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March 1947

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When was the Marshall plan?

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June 1947

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8
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When was the Berlin blockade

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June 1948 - May 1949

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9
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When was NATO formed?

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April 1949

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10
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When was FDR created

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May 1949

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11
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When did the USSR detonate the first atomic bomb

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August 1949

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11
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When did Mao win in China / formation of PRC

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October 1949

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12
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When was NSC - 68

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April 1950

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13
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When did North Korea invade South Korea

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June 1950

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14
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When did China intervene in the Korean war after western forces got to the border.

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November 1950

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15
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When was Eisenhower elected president

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November 1952

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15
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When was MacArthur fired

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1951

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16
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When does Stalin die

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March 1953

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17
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When was the Korean War armistice signed?

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July 1953

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18
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When was Beria executed?

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December 1953

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19
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When did the VietMinh defeat French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu - splitting Vietnam

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March/May 1954

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When was the Geneva conference

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April 1954

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21
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When was the Sanfrancisco treaty

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September 1951

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22
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When was SEATO formed

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September 1954

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23
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When does McCarthyism reach its peak

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1954

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24
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When is the Warsaw Pack formed?

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1955

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25
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When did Comecon form

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Janurary 1949

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26
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When was cominform set up?

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October 1947

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27
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When does Khrushchev properly consolidate power

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1956

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28
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When is the Secret Speech

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Feburary 1956

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29
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When is the Polish uprising

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June - October 1956

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30
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When was the Hungarian uprising

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October - November 1956

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31
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When was the Anti Party group attempted coup

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June 1957 - (Malenkov,Molotov)

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32
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What had happened regarding Gulags by 1958?

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Khrushchev released 8 million political prisoners

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33
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When was the Berlin crisis / Ultimatum

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November 1958

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34
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When did Fidel Castro take power in Cuba

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Janurary 1959

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35
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When was the U2 spy plane incident

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May 1960

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35
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When was JFK elected

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November 1960

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35
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When is JFK assassinated / LBJ (VP) becomes president

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November 1963

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35
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When was the failed Bay of Pigs invasion

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April 1961

35
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When was the Cuban Missile Crisis

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16th - 28th October 1962

35
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When was the Berlin wall erected

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August 1961

35
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When was the Naval Blockade

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October 22nd 1962

35
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When was the Moscow Test Ban Treaty

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August 1963

35
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When was the Gulf Of Tonkin resolution passed in US congress

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August 1964

35
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When is Khrushchev forced to retire / Brezhnev replaces him

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October 1964

36
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When do China succesfully detonate first atomic bomb

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October 1964

36
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When does operation rolling thunder being / first US soldiers arrive in Vietnam (Major escalation)

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March 1965

36
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What was significant by 1965

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MAJOR US escalation in Vietnam - 400,000 troops - bombing Laos and Cambodia

36
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When was the 6 day war

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June 5th - June 10th 1967

36
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When was the Tet offensive in Vietnam

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Janurary - March 1968 (Spring)

36
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When does the Prague Spring begin

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May - August 1968

37
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When do Warsaw pact troops/tanks invade Czechoslovakia

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August - 1968
500,000 troops sent by Kremlin

37
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When was Nixon elected president

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November 1968

37
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When was the Brezhnev doctorine announced in response to the Prague Spring.

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November 1968

38
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When were the key Sino Soviet border clashes on Zhenbao Island?

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1969

39
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When do Arms limitation talks between the USA and USSR begin

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1969

39
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When was Nixon Doctorine announced

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July 1969

40
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When was the Kent State shooting

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May 1970 - 4 shot dead

41
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When was Ping Pong diplomacy?

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1971
- US players visited China in preparation for World Championships in Nagoya, Japan.

42
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When is SALT I signed

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May 1972

42
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When does Nixon visit China

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Feburary 1972

43
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When was the Paris Peace Agreement

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Janurary 1973

44
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When were US troops withdrawn from Vietnam

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March - 1973

45
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When was Allende overthrown by Pinochet in Chile

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September 1973

45
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When did Nixon Resign/Ford become president

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August 1974

45
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When did Saigon fall - Vietnam reunified

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30 April 1975

45
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When were the Helsinki Accords

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August 1975

45
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When were the first SS20s deployed and how did the US react

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March 1976 - US reacted in 1979 with Pershing II missiles

45
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When was Jimmy Carter Elected president

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November 1976

46
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What happened in 1977

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More SS20s deployed - Carter pressures USSR for human rights abuses

46
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When did Brezhnev die - succeeded by Andropov

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November 1982

46
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When was the Communist uprising in Afghanistan

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1978

46
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When was SALT II signed (never ratified)

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June 1979 - wasn’t ratified due to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

46
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When was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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December 1979

46
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When was the US embassy in Iran hostage situation + how many hostages

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November 1979 - 53 hostages

46
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When was Reagan elected president

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November 1980

46
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When was Martial Law declared in Poland

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December 1981

46
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When and what happened at Reagans inaugaration?

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Janurary 20th 1981- Minutes after Iranian hostages released

46
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When was the US invasion of Grenada

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October 1983

46
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When did Reagan announce Star Wars

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March 1983

46
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When was Able Archer

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November 1983

46
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When does Chernenko die/ Gorbachev succeeds

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March 1985

46
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When was the Geneva Summit between Gorbachev and Reagan

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November 1985

46
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When does Andropov die - Chernenko succeeds

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Feburary 1984

46
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When was Chernobyl

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April 1986

47
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When was Glasnost and Perestroika introduced

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1986

48
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When was the Rekyjavik summit between Gorbachev and Reagan

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October 1986

49
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When was the Washington Summit between Gorbachev and Reagan

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October 1986

50
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When was the Moscow Summit Between Gorbachev and Reagan

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May - June 1988

51
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When was George H.W Bush elected president

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November 1988

52
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When was the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

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Feburary 1989

53
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When was the German reuinifcation

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October 1990

53
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When does the Berlin wall come down

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9 November 1989

53
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When does Poland hold free elections

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June 1989

54
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When does the Soviet Union Dissolve

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26 December 1991

54
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When were the Velvet revolutions in Czechoslovakia

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December 1989

54
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When do Bush and Gorbachev bury the Cold War at the bottom of the Mediterranean in the Malta Summit.

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December 1989

55
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When do START I talks begin

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July 1991

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