Cold War Dates

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Nazis invade Soviet Union
June 1941
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Percentages Agreement
October 1944
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Yalta Conference
February 4th - February 11th 1945
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Death of Roosevelt
April 12th 1945
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First US atomic bomb successfully tested
July 16th 1945 (day before Potsdam)
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Clement Attlee elected over Churchill
July 1945
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Potsdam Conference
July 17th - August 2nd 1945
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima - August 6th, Nagasaki - August 9th 1945
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Czechoslavakian Communist Party gain 38% of vote
May 1946
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Stalin forms Provisional Government of National Unity in Poland
June 1945
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Merger of communist and socialist parties in Poland
January 1947
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Gomulka (First Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party) accused of 'nationalist deviation' in Poland replaced by a pro Stalinist
1948
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Dr Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front becomes PM of Romania
March 1945
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Communist-led Bloc of Democratic Parties claim 84% of the vote through rigged elections
November 1946
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Romania becomes only monarchy in the Eastern Bloc, and King Michael presented with letter of abdication at gunpoint
December 1947
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Social Democrats forced to merge with Romanian Communist Party
February 1948
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Hungarian Communist Party gain just 17% of the vote, beaten by peasant party
November 1945
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Hungarian Communist Party become largest party (but no majority)
August 1947
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Hungarian Communist Party force Social Democrats to merge with them to form Hungarian Working People's Party
June 1948
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Hungary renamed People's Republic of Hungary with a copied Soviet constition
August 1949
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Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign Affair, Rajk, executed for 'anti-Soviet activities' (e.g close relationship with Yugoslavia)
October 1949
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German invasion of the Sudetenland
1938
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Soviet and American troops pull out of Czechoslovakia though Soviets keep divisions on Czechoslovakia's borders
December 1945
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In response to Czechoslovakian PM showing willingness to accept Marshall Aid, Stalin requests for Red Army to be allowed right of passage through country
February 1948
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Czechoslovakian elections with one list of government approved candidates
May 1948
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Bulgarian Agrarian leader executed despite winning 20% of the vote, and party absorbed into Communist movement
October 1947
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Italian Communists, PCd'I gain 19% of vote
June 1946
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Stalin sends Tito threatening letters and attempted to overthrow him, stopped Eastern European countries trading with Yugoslavia. Tito publishes letters.
January - June 1948
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Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
June 1948
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Poles rise up and attempt freedom but are crushed by the Russians (evidence for impossibility of governments that represented will of people AND were friendly to the USSR)
1830, 1862
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Long Telegram
22nd February 1946
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Iron Curtain Speech
5th March 1946
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Dates Churchill was PM
1940-45
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USSR Foreign Minister Molotov accuses US of being an imperialistic power, effectively abandons Declaration on Liberated Europe
October 1946
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Greek Civil War
1946-49
35 of 52
Greek Communists defeated
September 1949
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Under-Secretary of State Clayton concludes that millions facing starvation and that without increase of US aid, Europe would experience social, economic and political disintegration.
May 1947
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Kennan's Policy Planning Staff group states that Communist groups in Western Europe were far less of a problem that WW2 and US aid should focus on Europe's economic strength rather than combatting communism
May 1947
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Marshall returns from Moscow meeting of Allied foreign ministers and saw the Soviet unwillingness for cooperation in Germany and devastation in Western Europe
April 1947
39 of 52
Marshall Plan announced
June 5th 1947
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Paris Conference
June/July 1947
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All Soviet satellite state governments had fallen or been forced to fall into line
July 1947
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Cominform launched
September 1947
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PCF anti-Marshall Plan strike
November/December 1947
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Bizonia formed
January 1947
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Soviets began taking reparations from Allied zones
July 1946
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Deutschmark introduced
23rd June 1948
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Trizonia formed
April 1949
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Berlin Blockade began
24th June 1948
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Berlin Blockade lifted
12th May 1949
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Konrad Adenauer made Chancellor of West Germany
September 1949
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Comecom founded
January 1949
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Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

October 1944

Back

Percentages Agreement

Card 3

Front

February 4th - February 11th 1945

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

April 12th 1945

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

July 16th 1945 (day before Potsdam)

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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