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Timeline Flashcards

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1945

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  • Jan/Feb: Yalta Conference
  • May: The Defeat of Germany
  • July: Potsdam Conference
  • August: The Defeat of Japan
  • Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes US president
  • Formation of the UN
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1946

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  • Beginning of the French-Indochina War

- Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech

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1947

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  • March: The Truman Doctrine
  • The Marshall Plan
  • Cominform
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1948

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  • Czechoslovakia fully taken over by communists
  • Berlin Blockade and Airlift
  • Creation of the State of Israel. First Arab-Israeli War
  • UK, US and France unite their zones of Germany
  • Germany and Berlin now divided into East vs West
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1949

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  • End of the Berlin Blockade
  • Soviet Union explodes an atom bomb
  • China becomes communist under Mao Zedang
  • NATO is established
  • Comecon is set up
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1950

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  • NSC-68

- North Korea invades South Korea. Start of the Korean War

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1951

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  • General MacArthur is sacked by President Truman
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1952

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  • Election of Dwight Eisenhower as US President
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1953

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  • End of the Korean War
  • Stalin dies and Khrushchev becomes Soviet Leader
  • Khrushchev begins talks of peaceful coexistence
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1954

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  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

- The Geneva Conference

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1955

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  • Ngo Dinh Diem becomes president of South Vietnam

- Warsaw Pact is established

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1956

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  • Suez War

- Polish and Hungarian uprisings

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1957

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  • launch of Sputnik
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1958

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  • Berlin Crisis
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1959

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  • Cuban Revolution

- Khrushchev’s visit to the US

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1960

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  • U2 incident

- Sino-Soviet Split

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1961

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  • Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • Kennedy-Khrushchev Vienna Summit
  • Building of the Berlin Wall
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1962

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  • Cuban Missile Crisis
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1963

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  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  • Murder of Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Assassination of JFK, replaced by Johnson
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1964

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  • 23,000 US advisors in Vietnam
  • creation of the PLO
  • Khrushchev is overthrown, Brezhnev now Soviet Leader
  • Vietnam War begins
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1965

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  • President Johnson commits troops to Vietnam
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1966

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  • 385,000 troops in Vietnam
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1967

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  • Six Day War in the Middle East
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1968

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  • The TET offensive
  • Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia - prague Spring
  • Election of President Nixon
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1969

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  • Apollo II Moon Landing

- Nixon begins Vietnamisation

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1970

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  • US invasion of Cambodia
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1971

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  • Kissinger’s Secret Mission to China
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1972

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  • Nixon-Brezhnev summit
  • SALT 1 Treaty
  • Nixon visits China
  • US Xmas bombing of North Vietnam
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1973

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  • Paris Peace Accords. US pulls out of vietnam

- Yom Kippur War in the Middle East

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1974

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  • Nixon resigns over Watergate Scandal

- Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty is signed by USA and USSR

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1975

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  • South Vietnam taken over by communists
  • Helsinki Agreement
  • Joint Soyuz-Apollo space mission
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1976

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  • formal reunification of North and South Vietnam

- Jimmy Carter becomes president

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1977

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  • Election of President Carter
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1978

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  • Camp David Agreement between the US, Israel and Egypt

- Vietnam invades Cambodia

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1979

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  • China invades Vietnam
  • Ayatollah Khomeini takes power in Iran
  • Iran hostage crisis
  • Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua
  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
  • SALT II is signed
  • end of detente
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1980

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  • unsuccessful US rescue attempt of Iranian hostages

- Election of President Ronald Reagan

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1981

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  • over 110,000 Soviet troops in afghanistan
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1982

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  • Brezhnev dies. Andropov now soviet leader

- Israeli invasion of Lebanon

39
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1983

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  • US invasion of Grenada
  • Soviets shoot down Korean flight 007
  • Start of SDI (star wars)
40
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1984

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  • Andropov dies. Chernenko becomes Soviet Leader

- Reagan re-elected as president

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1985

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  • Reagan embroiled in the Iran-Contra affair
  • Chernenko dies. Gorbachev becomes soviet leader
  • Reagan-Gorbachev Geneva summit
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1986

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  • Chernobyl incident
  • Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik summit
  • Glasnost and Perestroika
43
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1987

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  • INF treaty

- start of the Intifada

44
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1988

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  • Reagan visits Moscow
45
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1989

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  • Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan
  • East European revolutions
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall
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1990

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  • End of communist control of Eastern Europe confirmed

- reunification of Germany

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1991

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  • START treaty signed
  • August coup by Soviet hard liners against Gorbachev
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union
  • End of the Cold War no longer in doubt
  • Warsaw Pact is dissolved
48
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1943

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  • Tehran conference

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