SOVIET LEADERS

STALIN ~ 1922-1953

Key events during leadership:

• Tehran (1943), Yalta (Feb 1945) and Potsdam (Jul/Aug 1945) Conferences
• Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan (1947)
• Cominform (1947) + Comecon (1949)
• Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift (1948)
• NATO created (1949)
• Soviets test A Bomb (1949)
• Korean War (1950-55)

Stalin dies in 1953 and is replaced by...

KHRUSHCHEV ~ 1953-1964

Key events during leadership:

• Warsaw Pact created (1955) to counter NATO
• 'DeStalinisation' begins (1956)
• Hungarian Uprising (1956)
• Cuba becomes communist (1959)
• Berlin Wall (1961)
• USA fail to invade and overthrow Castro at the Bay of Pigs (1961)
• Cuban Missile Crises (1962)
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed (1963)
• Hotline set-up (between Whitehouse + Kremlin) (1963)

BREZHNEV ~ 1964-1982

Key events:

• USA declare war in Vietnam
• Israel wins 'six day war' so Arab states…