Timeline Flashcards by Katya Bungay-Hill

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Formation of Grand Alliance

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1941

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Tehran conference

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1943

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Yalta conference

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Feb 1945

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Potsdam conference

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July-Aug 1945

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USA detonates 1st atomic bomb

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Aug 1945

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USSR forms satellite states

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1944-8

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Iron Curtain speech

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1946

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Truman Doctrine speech

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March 1947

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Cominform

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Sep 1947

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Marshall Plan

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1948-52

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Trizonia & Bizonia formed

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March 1948

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Deutschmark currency introduced

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June 1948

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Stalin closes land routes into Trizonia

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June 1948

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Operation Vittles / Berlin airlift

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June 1948

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USSR develops its 1st atomic bomb

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Aug 1949

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Comecon

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Jan 1949

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Federal Republic of Germany created (West)

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May 1949

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German Democratic Republic created (East)

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Oct 1949

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Warsaw Pact created

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1955

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Hungarian Uprising

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1956

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Berlin Ultimatum

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Nov 1958

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Geneva summit 1

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May 1959

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Camp David summit

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Sep 1959

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Paris summit

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1960

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Vienna summit

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1961

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Berlin wall begins to be built

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Aug 1961

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Bay of Pigs invasion

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April 1961

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Cuban Missile Crisis

A

Oct 1962

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Outer Space Treaty signed

A

1967

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Prague Spring

A

1968

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SALT 1 signed

A

1972

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Helsinki accords signed

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1975

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SALT 2 signed

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June 1979

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USSR invades Afghanistan

A

Dec 1979

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Carter Doctrine

A

Jan 1980

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Boycott of Moscow Olympic Games

A

Summer 1980

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Reagan becomes president

A

1981

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Reagan announces SDI

A

1983

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Gorbachev elected

A

1985

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Geneva summit 2 (the one in the ’80s)

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1985

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Reykjavik summit

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1986

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Washington summit

A

1987

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Moscow summit

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1988

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Malta summit

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1989

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Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria

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May 1989

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Solidarity wins elections in Poland

A

June 1989

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Berlin Wall taken down

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Nov 1989

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Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Nov-Dec 1989

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Communist leader of Bulgaria resigns on national TV

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Dec 1989

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President Ceausescu of Romania captured + executed

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Dec 1989

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Germany formally reunified

A

1990

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Gorbachev resigns + USSR collapses

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Christmas 1991