The Cold War Timeline Flashcards
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The Potsdam conference?
July 1945
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USA dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
6th August 1945
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Churchill’s iron curtain speech?
March 1946
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The Truman doctrine?
March 1947
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The Marshall plan?
June 1947
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Cominform?
September 1947
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The Berlin blockade and airlift?
June 1948 to May 1949
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Comecon?
January 1949
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NATO established?
April 1949
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West Germany created?
May 1949
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USSR develops the atomic bomb?
August 1949
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Eisenhower becomes president?
January 1950
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Stalins death?
5th March 1953
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Nikita Khrushchev becomes new leader of USSR?
March 1953
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The Warsaw Pact?
May 1955