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Russian Civil War

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1918

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Stalin becomes USSR leader

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1925

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Hitler comes to power in Germany

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January 1933

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Hitler and Stalin sign Nazi-Soviet Pact

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1939

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Hitler invades Poland, WW2 starts

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September 1939

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Hitler invades Russia, Russia sides with Allies

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1941

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Japan attacks Pearl Harbour, US joins Allies

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December 1941

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Yalta Conference

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February 1945

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WW2 ends

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March 1945

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Potsdam Conference

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July 1945

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France starts war in Vietnam

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1945

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12
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Romania became communist

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1946

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Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech

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March 1946

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Poland became communist

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January 1947

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Truman Doctrine speech

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March 1947

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16
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The Marshall Plan announced

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June 1947

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Hungary became communist

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August 1947

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Cominform introduced by the USSR

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September 1947

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Czechoslovakia became communist

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1948

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Stalin blockaded West Berlin

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June 1948

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Berlin Airlift began

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1948

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China became communist

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Stalin called off the Berlin Blockade

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The USSR tested its first atomic bomb

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NATO formed as a defensive alliance
April 1949
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Korean war began
1950
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Stalin died
1953
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France loses to the Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh at the battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954
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Treaty of Geneva
Summer 1954
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North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh set up a communist army in South Vietnam called the Vietcong
1960
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US President Kennedy sent weapons, money and 12 000 military advisers to support the South Vietnamese army in fighting the Vietcong
1962
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American U2 spy-planes took photos of ICBM launch pads in Cuba
14th October 1962
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Kennedy informed of the missile on Cuba, given copies of the spy-plan photographs
15th October 1962
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Kennedy sets up ExComm
16th October 1962
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Kennedy publicly announced the set-up of a naval blockade around Cuba
22nd October 1962
36
12 Soviet ships heading for Cuba turned back
23rd October 1962
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Khrushchev publicly accused America of 'piracy', saying they had no right to put up a blockade
24th October 1962
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Kennedy received a personal letter from Khrushchev offering to dismantle the bases if he promised to leave Cuba alone
26th October 1962
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Khrushchev sent a second letter demanding that Kennedy also dismantle the US bases in Turkey. Kennedy agreed as long as this part remained in secret. An American spy plane is shot down Cuba, war seems imminent but JFK ignored the pressure to retaliate
27th October 1962
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Khrushchev agreed to remove the Cuban missile within 30 days, end of the Cuban Missile Crisis
28th October 1962
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A Buddhist Monk, Thick Quang Duc, burned himself to death to protest the cruelty of the South Vietnamese government.
October 1963
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Most of South Vietnam was under Vietcong control. Kennedy secretly supported a coup attempt against Diem, which resulted in his murder and the establishment of a military government in South Vietnam. Kennedy himself was assassinated two weeks alter Diem. Lyndon B Johnson becomes US President.
November 1963
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Gulf of Tonkin incident. The US Congress gave Johnson the power to order military action.
August 1964
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The beginning of Operation Rolling Thunder
February 1965
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The first 3500 American soldiers arrive in South Vietnam.
March 1965
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The Vietcong launched the Tet Offensive
January 1968
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My Lai Massacre
March 1968
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Beginning of Operation Phoenix
1968
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Beginning of the policy of “Vietnamisation” under US President Nixon
1969
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US began attacking Cambodia and Laos, through which North Vietnam was sending slippers and support to the Vietcong. Students in the US begin to protest against the war.
1970
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A student protest at Kent State University in Ohio gets out of hand when nervous US national guardsmen fired into a group of unarmed students. Four students were killed and eleven others were injured.
1970
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The Paris Peace Agreement, negotiated by American Henry Kissinger, was signed
1973
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South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam, becoming under the Communist North Vietnamese government.
1975
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USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev removed from power and the Soviet Union dissolved. The end of the Cold War
1991

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