COLD WAR DATES

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Grand Alliance set up
1941
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Tehran conference
November 1943
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Second front in Northern France (D-Day)
1944
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Yalta conference
February 1945
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Breakdown of the Grand Alliance
1946
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Iron curtain Speech
March 1946
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Long Telegram
1946
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Novikov telegram
1946
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Truman Doctrine
March 1947
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British Gov. can no longer support Greek War
February 1947
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Marshall Plan
March 1947
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Cominform
1947
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Comecon
1949
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Berlin Blockade
June 1948-May 1949
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Bizonia created
1947
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Deutschmark created
1948
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NATO set up
1949
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USA only country with nuclear weapons
1945-1949
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Soviet Union develops its own atom bomb
1949
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USSR takeover Hungary
1944
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Over 2.7 million escape East Germany
1949-1961
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USSR takeover Czechoslovakia
1948
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China becomes communist
1949
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Stalin dies
1953
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Khrushchev becomes leader of USSR
1955
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USA developed hydrogen bomb
1952
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USSR developed hydrogen bomb
1953
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Nuclear bomb satellites created
1957
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ICBM’s produced
1957
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Warsaw pact
1955
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Federal Republic of Germany allowed into NATO
1955
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Secret Speech
February 1956
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Fighting breaks out in Budapest
24th October 1956
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Khrushchev sends 7,000 troops into Hungary
4th November 1956
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Khrushchev declares whole of Berlin to belong to East Germany
November 1958
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Geneva Summit
1949
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Camp David Summit
1959
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Castro’s revolution
1959
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Novotny becomes leader of Czechoslovakia
1957
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Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space
1961
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Over 2.7 million people had escaped East Germany
1949-1961
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Over 20,000 people a month escaping to the West
January 1961
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Paris Conference
1960
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U2 Spy plane incident
1st May 1960
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Geneva Conference
1961
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Bay of Pigs invasion
April 1961
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Khrushchev builds the Berlin Wall
13th August 1961
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Kennedy makes “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech
1963
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USSR agrees to buy 1,000,000 tonnes of Cuban sugar
1960
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Castro announces Cuba to be a communist country
May 1961
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Cuban missiles crisis
October 1962
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U2 spy plane photographs missile launchers on Cuba
14th October 1962
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Kennedy places naval blockade around Cuba
20th October 1962
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Missile ships heading for Cuba slow down
24th October 1962
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Telegram 1 Khruschev --> Kennedy
26th October 1962
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Telegram 2 Khruschev --> Kennedy
27th October 1962
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Khrushchev is sacked as USSR president
1964
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Hot line set up between Whitehouse and kremlin
1963
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Test ban treaty
1963
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Nuclear non-proliferation treaty
1968
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Standard of Living and economy in Czechoslovakia starts to collapse
Late 1960’s
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Dubcek invites Brezhnev to Czechoslovakia to see opposition to Novotny
1967
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Dubcek becomes leader of communist party in Czechoslovakia
5th January 1968
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Prague spring reforms
April 1968
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Warsaw pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
20th august 1968
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Albania leaves Warsaw pact
1968
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SALT 1
1972
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Helsinki Agreements
1975
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Apollo Soyuz Mission
1975
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SALT 2 Talks Begin
1974
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SALT 2 treaty is signed
1979
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Kabul Revolution
April 1978
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Taraki Assasinated
1979
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Christmas Day 1979 - 1989
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Berlin Wall demolished
November 1989
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Kamal no longer president of Afghanistan
1986
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USSR forced to pull out of Afghanistan civil war
1989
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Boycott of Moscow Olympics
1980
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Boycott of LA Olympics
1984
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Ronald Reagan becomes president of the USA
1981
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Second Cold war
1980-1985
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Reagan proposes the ‘Zero option’
1981
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USSR walk out of the START talks
1983
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the USSR
1985
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Brezhnev dies
1982
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Andropov’s period as president of the USSR
1982-1984
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Cherenkov’s period as president of the USSR
1984-1985
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America spent $367 billion on defence
1986
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Geneva Summit
1985
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Reykjavik Summit
1986
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Washington Summit
1987
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INF treaty signed
1987
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Malta Summit
1989
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Gorbachev’s speech about USSR armed forces cuts
1988
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Poland breaks from the USSR
1989
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Hungary tears down barbed wire border with Austria
September 1989
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People in East Berlin begin tearing down the Berlin Wall
November 1989
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Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria peacefully break free from the USSR
1989
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Romanian dictator Ceausescu overthrown and executed
December 1989
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Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia make human chain demanding freedom from USSR
August 1989
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Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1990
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Hungary holds free democratic elections
1990
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West and East Germany united once more
October 1990
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USSR Collapses
1991
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Gorbachev agrees to the republics getting some freedoms
1991
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Gorbachev resigns as president of the USSR
Christmas day 1991
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