Chruchills iron curtain speech, Kennan's 'long telegram'
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1947
Truman Doctrine, Marshall plan
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1948
Czech crisis, berlin blockade/airlift
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1949
NATO formed, end of blockade, china becomes communist, USSR acheive nuclear capability
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1950
sino-soviet alliance, start of korean war, treaty of friendship, alliance and mutual assistance
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1952
USA test first hydrogen bomb
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1953
Stalin dies, korean war ends, beria removed from leadership, khrushchev becomes leader of communist party, USSR
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1954
Geneva conference-french withdraw from indochina, USA explode first lithium bomb, khrsuhchev visits bejing, khrushchev refuses to lesson soviet ties with mongolia nor endorses chinese control over nrth korea, first taiwan crisis, SEATO formed
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1955
Warsaw pact, austrian state treaty, Geneva summit, USA tests first intercontinental bombs
10 of 24
1956
Khrushchev 'secret speech', soviet withdrawal from finland, hungarian uprising, khrushchev critisises Mao's 'great leap forward' policy, second taiwan straits crisis
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1957
USSR develops first intercontinental ballistic missiles, USSR launches Sputnik I and II, America failure of Kaputnik
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1958
Start of Berlin crisis: Khrushchev asks the west to leave Berlin
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1959
Castro leads revolution in cuba, USSR cancels sino-soviet agreement on atomic cooperation, khrushchev visits USA
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1960
U2 spy plane incident, paris summit between eisenhower and khrushchev abandoned,
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1961
kennedy becomes president, bay of pigs invasion, USSR first man in space, vienna summit (kennedy and khrushchev), berlin wall erected, china gives albania aid, china encourages romania to be more independent from USSR
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1962
cuban missile crisis
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1963
'hot line', test ban treaty signed, china claims borders 'unequal'
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1964
khrushchev dismissed, breznev takes power, china develops own nuclear weapons
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1965
USSR improves relations with mongolia, north korea, and north vietnam in order to isolate china
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1969
Ussuri river dispute
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1971
ping-pong diplomacy-relations between china and usa improve
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1972
nixon visits china
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1975
president ford visits china
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1946
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Chruchills iron curtain speech, Kennan's 'long telegram'
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