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When was the Yalta Summit?

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Feb 1945

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When was the Iron Curtain Speech?

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March 1946

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When was the Long Telegram?

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Feb 1946

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When was the Novikov Telegram?

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Sept 1946

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When was Bizonia Created?

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Jan 1947

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When was the Truman Doctrine released?

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March 1947

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When was COMINFORM created?

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Sept 1947

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When did Czechoslovakia become communist?

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Feb 1948

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When was the Marshall Plan released?

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April 1948

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What were the dates of the beginning and end of the Berlin Blockade?

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24 Jun1948 - 12 May1949

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When was Tito expelled from COMINFORM?

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Jun 1948

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When was COMECON formed?

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Jan 1949

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When was NATO formed?

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April 1949

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When was PRC declared?

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Oct 1949

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15
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When did USSR get A bomb?

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Aug 1949

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16
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When was GDR formed?

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Oct 1949

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When was the Sino soviet mutual defence treaty?

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Feb 1950

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When was NSC/68 released?

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April 1950

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What were the Korean War start and end dates?

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25 Jun 1950 - 27 Jul 1953

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When was the Potsdam Conference?

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Jul-Aug 1945

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21
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When were the Rosenberg couple convicted of espionage?

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March 1951

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22
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When did McCarthyism take off?

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Feb 1950

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When was General MacArthur fired?

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April 1951

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When was the San Francisco Treaty?

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April 1952

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When was Eisenhower Inaugurated into presidency?
Jan 1953
26
When did Stalin die?
March 1953
27
When did the Cuban Revolution being?
July 1953
28
When did Khrushchev become the leader of the USSR?
elected in Sept 1953
29
When was Polaris created?
Jan 1954
30
When was McCarthy disgraced for accusing the millitary?
Apr-Jun 1954
31
When was the Taiwan Strait Crisis?
Aug 1954
32
When was SEATO created?
Sept 1954
33
When did FRG join NATO?
May 1955
34
When did the Warsaw Pact get created?
May 1955
35
When was the Geneva Summit?
July 1955
36
When did the Vietnam War begin?
Nov 1955
37
When was Khrushchev's secret speech?
Feb 1956
38
When was the Hungarian Crisis?
23 Oct 1956
39
When was the Suez Crisis?
Oct 1953
40
When was Eisenhower re-elected?
Nov 1956
41
When was Sputnik 1 Launched into space?
Oct 1957
42
When was the Berlin Ultimatum issued?
Nov 1958
43
When was Explorer 1 launched into space?
Jan 1958
44
When did Castro win the Cuban Revolution?
Jan 1959
45
When was the Camp David Summit?
Sept 1959
46
When was Gary Powers shot down in the U2 plane?
May 1960
47
When was the Sino-Soviet Split?
June 1960
48
When was the Congo Crisis
July 1959
49
When was Patrice Lumumba Killed?
Jan 1961
50
When did Kennedy become President?
Jan 1961
51
When did Yuri Gagarin get to space?
April 1961
52
When was the Bay of Pigs dates?
17-19 April 1961
53
When was the Vienna Summit?
Jun 1961
54
When was the Berlin Wall begin construction?
12-13 Aug 1961
55
When was the Checkpoint Charlie Standoff?
Oct 1961
56
When was Tsar Bomba created?
Oct 1961
57
When was Castro declared as a Leninist?
Dec 1961
58
What were the key dates of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
14 oct 1962, U2 pics Started 16 Oct 1962 Ended 29 Oct 1962
59
When was the Partial Test Ban Treaty made?
Aug 1963
60
When was Diem assassinated?
Nov 1963
61
When was JFK shot and LBJ Inaugurated President?
Nov 1963
62
When was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Aug 1964
63
When was the Geneva Conference?
April 1954

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