Death of Stalin Flashcards
1
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August 1949
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- USSR successfully tests first atomic bomb, ending US monopoly.
2
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October 1949
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- Mao Zedong proclaims communist People’s republic of China.
- Highly influential Senator McCarthy accuses communist sympathisers in the State Department of un-American activity.
3
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April 1950
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- ‘Long Memorandum of 1950’: National Security Council recommends increase in American military and stronger reaction.
4
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January 1953
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president.
5
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March 1953
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- Stalin dies. Successors are Molotov, Malenkov, Bulgarin, Beria, and Khrushchev.
6
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April 1953
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- Eisenhower makes speech: hoping for a new start in US-Soviet relations, an end to the Korean War, liberalisation of Eastern Europe, and a settlement on Austria.
7
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February 1956
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- Khrushchev’s speech at the 20th congress of the communist party.
8
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April 1956
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- Khrushchev announces the dissolution of Cominform.
9
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June 1956
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- Violent disturbances in Poland which the Polish army was sent to halt.
10
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October 1956
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- Khrushchev and the Poles arrived at compromise: Gomulka (popular leader) would maintain his position if Poland stayed in the Warsaw Pact and maintained communism.
11
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October - November 1956
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- Hungarian Uprising
12
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1958 - 1960
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- First Berlin Crisis
13
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November 1958
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- Khrushchev demands to change Berlin’s status and gives western powers a deadline to withdraw.
14
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January 1959
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- Khrushchev presents western powers with draft for new status of Berlin.
15
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May - August 1959
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- Foreign Minister meetings. No agreement. Khrushchev had lost interest and wanted his trip to the US to go well.
16
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September 1959
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- Khrushchev visits US
17
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1959
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- Fidel Castro overthrows Batista, who fees to Florida.
18
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May 1960
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- Francis Gary Powers’ U2 spy plane is shot down by the Soviets.
19
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August 1960
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- US trade embargo on Cuba. Cuba starts trading with Soviet bloc.
20
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1961
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- Second Berlin Crisis.
21
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1961-4
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- Operation Mongoose.
22
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January 1961
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- Kennedy becomes president.
23
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April 1961
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- Bay of Pigs incident. USSR sends first man to space.
24
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June 1961
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- Khrushchev and Kennedy’s first meeting in Vienna.
25
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August 1961
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- Construction of Berlin Wall.
26
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October 1961
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- Checkpoint Charlie tank face-off.
27
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July 1962
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- Raoul Castro makes secret agreement with Soviets to station missiles in Cuba.
28
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October 1962
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- US finds out about Soviet missiles in Cuba. Kennedy enforces ‘strict quarentine’. Soviet submarine incident. U2 spy plane shot down by Soviets in Cuba, Cuba takes public responsibility. Negotiations, Khrushchev and Kennedy withdraw missiles.
29
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August 1963
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- Test Ban Treaty.
30
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October 1964
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- Brezhnev becomes leader.
31
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January 1967
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- Outer Space Treaty.
32
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1968
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- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Prague Spring.
33
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August 1968
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- Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
34
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January 1969
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- Nixon becomes president.
35
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May 1972
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- SALT I
36
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August 1974
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- Ford becomes president.
37
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November 1974
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- Vladivostok summit.
38
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1977
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- SS-20 Soviet missile crisis.
39
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January 1977
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- Carter becomes president
40
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June 1979
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- SALT II
41
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December 1979
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- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
42
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January 1981
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- Raegan becomes president.
43
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June 1982
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- START Treaty.
44
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March 1983
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- Strategic Defence Initiative. Gorbachev becomes leader.
45
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November 1985
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- Raegan and Gorbachev’s first meeting in Geneva.
46
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1989
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- Collapse of communist in eastern Europe.
47
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1990
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- Collapse of Soviet Union.
