International Flashcards by Melissa Story | Brainscape

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What happened in February 1945?

A

Yalta conference- Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt

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What happened in May 1945?

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German surrender and end of WW2 in France

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What happened in July 1945?

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Potsdam conference - Attlee, Stalin and Truman

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What happened in August 1945?

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Atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

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What happened in September 1945?

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Japanese surrender and end of WW2 in Asia

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What happened in March 1946?

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Iron Curtain Speech

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What happened in 1947?

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Truman Doctrine begins

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What happened in 1948? [2]

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Berlin Blockade

AND

Berlin Airlift

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What happened in April 1949?

A

NATO formed

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What happened in May 1949?

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Berlin Blockade ends

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What happened in August 1949?

A

USSR successfully detonated atomic bomb

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What happened in June 1950?

A

UN intervention in Korean War

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What happened in November 1950?

A

Chinese intervention in Korean War

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What happened in November 1952?

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Dwight Eisenhower elected president of USA

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What happened in July 1953?

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Armistice signed regarding Korean War

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What happened in May 1955?

A

Warsaw Pact formed

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What happened in 1956?

A

Khrushchev consolidates power in USSR

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What Happened in February 1956?

A

Secret Speech - destalinisation speech

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What happened in June - October 1956?

A

Polish Uprising

Q

What happened in October - November 1956?

A

Hungarian Uprising

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What happened in 1958?

A

Berlin crisis

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What happened in May 1960?

A

U2 spy plane incident

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What happened in April 1961?

A

Bay of Pigs fiasco

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What happened in October 1962?

A

Cuban Missile Crisis

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What happened in August 1963?

A

Moscow test ban treaty signed by GB, USSR and US