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Dates Cold War Flashcards

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Hitler attcks USSR. Allies UK and USA

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June 1941

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Tehran

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November 1943

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Yalta

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Febuary 1943

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VE day

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May 1945

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Potsdam

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July 1945

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6
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USA drops atom bomb

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August 1945

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Kennan’s long telegram

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Febuary 1946

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Churchil’s Iron Curtain speech

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March 1946

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Novicov telegram

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September 1946

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Communist government elected in Poland

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January 1947

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Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia

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Febuary 1948

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Communist government elected in Hungary

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May 1949

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13
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Berlin blockade

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June 1948

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14
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Comecon

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January 1949

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15
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NATO

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April 1949

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16
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Federal Republic of Germany founded

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September 1949

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17
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German Democratic Republic founded

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October 1949

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18
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Warsaw Pact formed

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May 1955

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19
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Cominform

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September 1947

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20
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Berlin Crisis

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1948

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21
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Deutchmark currency

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June 1948

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22
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Operation Vittles (Berlin Airlift)

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June 1948 - May 1949

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23
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USA tests hydrogen bomb

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November 1952

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24
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Eisenhower president

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January 1953

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25
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Stalin dies

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1953

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26
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Soviet union tests hydrogen bomb

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August 1953

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27
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German Federal Republic (West germany) joins NATO

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May 1955

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Khrushchev is new leader. Critisises Stalin in speech

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Febuary 1956

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29
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Hungarian uprising crushed

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November 1956

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30
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USA launch inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM)

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June 1957

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31
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Soviet Union test first (ICBM)

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August 1957

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32
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Imre Nagy, Hunarian PM, Executed

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June 1958

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33
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Soviet Union develop Atomic bomb

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1949

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34
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Geneva summit

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July 1955

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35
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Marshall Aid

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June 1947

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36
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Berlin Ultimatum

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November 1958

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37
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Krushchev visits USA

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September 1959

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38
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Camp David summit

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September 1959

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39
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U-2 Crisis

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May 1960

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40
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Paris summit

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Vienna summit (Berlin ultimatum renewed)

42
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Construction of Berlin Wall begins

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August 1961

43
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Kennedy visits Berlin

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Refugee problem

45
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Ich bin ein Berliner speech

46
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Castro is leader in Cuba

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January 1959

47
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Cuban goverment nationalises foreign owned land

48
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Castro signs agreement with Krushchev

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Febuary 1960

49
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USA brakes off diplomatic relations with Cuba

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January 1961

50
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Bay of pigs

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August 1961

51
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Krushchev offers missiles to Cuba

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September 1961

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U-2 spyplane reveals missile silos on Cuba

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October 1962

53
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ExComm assembled. Start of 13 days

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October 1962

54
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Hotline set up

55
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Test ban treaty

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August 1963

56
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Kennedy announces naval blockade on national tv

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October 1962

57
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Soviet Union agrees to remove missiles from Cuba

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October 1962

58
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Outer space treaty, start of space race

59
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Nuclear non-prolifiation treaty stopped countries sharing nuclear technology

60
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Dubcek becomes leader of Czech government

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January 1968

61
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Prauge spring reformes

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April 1968

62
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Invasion of Czechoslovakia

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August 1968

63
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Brezhnev doctrine

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September 1968

64
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Dubcek dismissed

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April 1969

65
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Détente

66
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Nixon president

67
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Drandt elected chancellor of west germany

68
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SALT 1

69
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Brezhnev visits washington

70
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Helsinky accords and apollo-soyuz space mission

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SALT 2

72
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Islamic militants capture american embassy

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November 1979

73
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Détene ends with soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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December 1979

74
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Carter doctrine. Moscow boycott, Ronald Regan president. Second coldwar begins

75
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Martial law in Poland

76
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Death of Brezhnev

77
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SDI announced by Regan

78
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LA boycott

79
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USSR leave Afghanistan

80
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Gorbachev new leader of USSR. Geneva summit

81
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Reykjavik summit

82
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Intermediate range nuclear force treaty (INF)

83
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Moscow summit

84
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Fall of Berlin wall

85
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Gorbachev wins nobel prize

86
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Gorbachev overthrown USSR disolves

87
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Solidarity is legalised and wins a landslide victory in Poland

88
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Huge numbers of East Germans leave through Hungary up to a point of 125000 in a day

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September 1989

89
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Gorbachev refuses to help East German government put down demonstrations

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October 1989

90
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Border crossing from East to West Berlin to be opened.

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November 1989

91
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Germany formally united

92
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Hungarian takes down border with non-communtist Austria. New democratic government and free elections to be held

93
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Velvet revolution overthrows the communist Czechoslovakian goverment. Vaclav Havel president

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November 1989

94
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Demonstrations against communist Romanian government. Communist leader Ceausescu overthrone and executed

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December 1989

95
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Bulgarian communist leader Perer Mladenov resigns live on national tv. Free elections to be held.

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December 1989

96
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Slovenians vote independence in free refurendum. Yugoslavia breacks up as Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo amd Macedonia all declare independence

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December 1990

97
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Warsaw pact ends

98
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USSR invade Afhanistan

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