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75 Cards in this Set
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Yalta Conference and Treaty
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1945
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Potsdam Conference and Treaty
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1945
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atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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1945
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Long Telegram (Kennan)
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1946
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Stalin's Re-Election Speech
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1946
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Iron Curtain Speech (Churchill)
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1946
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Pravda Interview (Stalin) in response to Iron Curtain Speech
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1946
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Iran crisis
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1946
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Truman Doctrine
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1947
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Marshall Plan
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1947
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"X" Article
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1947
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Cominform founded
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1947
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Communist coup of Czechoslovakia
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1948
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Tito expelled from Cominform
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1948
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Berlin Blockade and Airlift begin
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1948
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German currency controversy
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1948
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NATO founded
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1949
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Berlin Blockade lifted
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1949
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USSR tests atomic bomb
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1949
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FRG forms
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1949
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GDR forms
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1949
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COMECON founded
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1949
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Mao takes over China, PRC founded
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1949
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Korean War begins
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1950
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Soviet-Chinese Friendship Treaty
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1950
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Hiss found guilty of perjury
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1950
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Fuchs convicted for spying
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1950
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Rosenbergs convicted and executed (two dates)
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1951 and 1953
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McCarthy's speech
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1950
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US gets hydrogen bomb
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1952
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US elections Eisenhower won
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1952 and 1956
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Greece and Turkey join NATO
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1952
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Korean War ends
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1953
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Mao's first 5-year plan
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1953
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Eisenhower takes office
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1953
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Rollback Policy introduced
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1953
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Brinksmanship introduced
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1953
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Stalin dies
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1953
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competition for USSR leadership
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1953-6
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USSR tests hydrogen bomb
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1953
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Operation Ajax (Mossadegh out of Iran)
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1953
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Castro "History will absolve me"
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1953
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Guatemala and the United Fruit Company
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1954
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Massive Retaliation introduced
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1954
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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1954
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Geneva Conference
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1954
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SEATO Treaty
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1954
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Geneva Summit
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1955
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Austria State Treaty
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1955
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FRG joined NATO
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1955
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Warsaw Pact
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1955
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Ngo Dinh Diem president of South Vietnam
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1955
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Bomber Gap
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1955
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Castro expelled from Cuba
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1955
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Baghdad Pact (later CENTO) formed
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1955
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Khrushchev takes full power (Molotov kicked out)
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1956
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De-Stalinization speech (Khrushchev)
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1956
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Peaceful Coexistence speech (Khrushchev)
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1956
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Poland crisis (Gomulka)
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1956
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Hungarian Revolution (Nagy)
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1956
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Khrushchev visits Tito
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1956
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Vietnam elections not held
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1956
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100 Flowers campaign
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1956
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Suez crisis
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1956
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Castro returns to Cuba on Granma
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1956
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Eisenhower Doctrine introduced
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1957
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Sputnik
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1957
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ICBMs tested
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1957
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Project Vanguard (first attempts failed)
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1957-8
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NASA established
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1958
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Great Leap Forward began
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1958
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National Defense Education Act
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1958
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Khrushchev visits US
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1959
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Castro takes over Cuba
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1959
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NSC-68
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1950
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