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June 1941

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Hitler’s attack on the USSR:Grand alliance

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November 1943

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Tehran conference

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February 1945

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Yalta Conference

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May 1945

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VE day

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July 1945

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Potsdam Conference

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August 1945

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USA use atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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February 1946

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Kennan’s Long Telegram

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March 1946

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Churchill Iron curtain speech

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September 1946

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Novikov Telegram

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January 1947

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Communist government set up in Poland

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March 1947

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Truman Doctrine

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June 1947

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Marshall Aid

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September 1947

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1st Cominform meeting

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February 1948

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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

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June 1948

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Stalin orders blockade of Berlin (Last until May 1949)

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January 1949

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Comecon established

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April 1949

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NATO formed

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August 1949

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USSR test a bomb

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Communist take over China

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1949

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Permanent division of Germany into East and West

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1949

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Korean war

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1950-53

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USA develop H bomb

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1952

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Eisenhower became president of USA

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1953

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Death of Stalin

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1953

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USSR Develop H bomb

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1953

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Soviets leave Austria and Geneva Summits

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1955

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West Germany Join NATO

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1955

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Soviets create warsaw pack

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1955

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Nikita Khrushev emerges as soviet leader

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1956

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October 1956

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Hungarian uprising

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November 4

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Hungarian uprising is crushed by Soviets

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USA AND USSR both develop ICBMs

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1957

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July 1958

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Execution of Imre Nagy

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3 millionEast Germans fled to the west since 1945

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1958

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November 1958

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Khrushchev gives west ultimatum to leave Berlin in 6 months

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January 1959

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Cuban revolution

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May 1959

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Geneva summit meeting in Berlin

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May 1959

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Castro nationalise foreign owned land and business in Cuba

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September 1959

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Camp David summit

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February 1960

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Castro makes trade deal with Khrushchev

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May 1969

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U2 Crisis-American U2 plane shot down by soviets

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Paris summit- Khrushchev walks out in protest of US spying

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May 1960

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January 1961

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USA breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba

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April 1961

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Bay of pigs Invasion-CIA attempted to overthrow Castro

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June 1961

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Vienna summit

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August 1961

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Construction of Berlin wall begins

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September 1961

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Castro declares Cuba communists;soviet arms deal with cuba

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October 14 1962

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U2 Plane photographs soviet missiles silos on Cuba

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October 16 1962

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Kennedy sets up ExComm:13 days of CMC begins

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October 22 1962

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Kennedy announces naval blockade of Cuba

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October 28 1962

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Khrushchev agrees to remove soviet missiles from Cuba

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June 1963

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Telephone hotline

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June 1963

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Kennedy vists Berlin” ich bin ein Berliner”

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August 1963

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Nuclear test ban treaty-prohibits nuclear tests in space air and sea

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Khrushchev is dismissed and replaced with Leonid Brezhev

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1964

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1967

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Outer space treaty-bans military activity’s in space

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January 1968

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Alexander Dubcek becomes leader of Czechoslovakia

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July 1968

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Non profit treaty-only 5 countries own nuclear weapons

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April 1968

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Dubcek begins Prague Springs reforms

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August 1968

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Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

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September 1968

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Soviet newspaper Pravda publishes the Brezhnev Doctrine

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April 1969

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Dubeck dismissed

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