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russian revolution

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October 1917

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Russian civil war

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1918-20

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Hitler and Stalin partitioned Poland

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September 1939

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German invasion of the USSR

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June 1941

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Tehran conference

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November-December 1943

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Yalta conference

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February 1945

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Germans surrender

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1945 May 8

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Potsdam conference

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July-August 1945

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Stalins death

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March 1953

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USSR successful testing of the atomic bomb

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August 1949

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Marshall Aid plan

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1947 June

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USSR created Cominform

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September 1947

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NATO created

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1949

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USSR sets up German Democratic Republic in East Germany

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May 1949

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Berlin Blockade imposed

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June 1948

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Atomic bomb dropped on Japan

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August 1945

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Communist coup in Czechslovakia

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February 1948

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Churchill iron curtain speech

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March 1946

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Bizonia created in Germany between Britain and US areas

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December 1946

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US/British/French zones of Germany unite and form Federal Republic of Germany

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May 1949

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Comecon created

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January 1949

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West Germany allowed to form an army and Warsaw pact

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1955

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Stalin dies

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March 1953

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armistice signed for the Korean war

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July 1953

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Warsaw pact formed

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May 1955

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Soviets removal from Austria

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May 1955

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Geneva summit held between big four

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July 1955

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Hungarian uprising

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October-November 1956

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Kruschev visits the USA

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September 1959

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Berlin wall constructed

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August 1961

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Hungarian rising defeated

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November 4th 1956

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US u2 plane shot down by USSR

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1960 May

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Kruschev secret speech at twentieth party conference

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February 1956

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riots in Poznan Hungary

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June 1956

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demonstrations in poland

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october 1956

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kruschev

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1953-64

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brezhnev

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1964-82

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andropov

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1982-84

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chernenko

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1984-85

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gorbachev

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1985-91

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truman

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1945-53

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eisenhower

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1953-61

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JFK

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1961-63

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Carter

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1977-81

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Nixon

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1969-74

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Reagen

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1981-89

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sinatra doctrine

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gorbachev

1989

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solidarity

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1978 pope john paul 2nd elected
1980 solidarity emerged
1988 re legalised at the round table agreements

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test ban treaty

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1963
excluded france and china
banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater

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nuclear/non proliferation treaty

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1968
the superpowers would not transfer nuclear weapons to other countries or assist other countries in developing nuclear weapons (containment of nuclear weapons and isolating the superpowers power

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SALT talks

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1970-4

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Afghanistan

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1979

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Fall of Berlin wall

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November 1989

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Reunification of Germany

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1991

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Cuban Missile crisis

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October 1962

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SALT 2

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1979

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moscow treaty (ostpolitik)

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1970

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four power treaty (Ostpolitik)

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1971

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basic treaty

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1972

improved relations between fdr and gdr

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Helsinki accords

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1975
three baskets and rectifying Yalta
1st - security
2nd -

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Brezhnev doctrine

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1968

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ussr invaded afghanistan

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late 1979

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usa boycotted olympic games in Moscow

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1980

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carter stopped grain exports to ussr

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1980’s ??

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Thatcher

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1979-90

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tito dies

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1980

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soviet withdrawal from afghanistan

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1986-88

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krenz

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leader of gdr who replaced honecker

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havel

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leader of czechoslovakia who replaced adamec

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grosz

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replaced kadar in hungary

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two plus four talks/treaty

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february 1990

september 12

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dissolvement of warsaw pact

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1991 july

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gorbachev’s economic blockade in lithuania

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april 1990

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gorbachev sending in troops to the baltics

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january 1991

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leaders of the USSR

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Stalin 1878 - 1953
Molenkov 1953 - 1955
Khruschev 1955 - 1964
Brezhnev 1964- 1982
Andropov/Chernenko 1982 - 1985
Gorbachev 1985 - 1991
76
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kennan telegram

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1946

77
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creation of GDR

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August 1949

78
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arms race usa

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1945 - dropping of atomic bomb on Hiroshima
1952 - development of hydrogen bomb
1958 - ICBM’s tested
nuclear submarine capacities
1961 - U2 spy shot down, doctrine of massive retaliation JFK
1962 - cuban missile crisis
1966 - palomares incident in spain, USA loses some nuclear weapons
1955 - 1975 - vietnam war, america couldnt afford to spend as much on nuclear weapons

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arms race ussr

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1953 - USSR tests hydrogen bomb
1957 - USSR develops Inter-Continental Missiles
1961 - testing of tsar bomba (most powerful hydrogen bomb)
1966 - USSR develops anti-ballistic missile

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