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14 Cards in this Set
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Nazi-Soviet Pact |
23rd August 1939 Contradicting earlier signs of allying with Britain and France, the USSR sides with Germany They secretly plan to invade and split Poland |
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Katyń Massacre |
April-May 1940 Over 20,000 Poles imprisoned by the USSR are secretly killed |
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Iron Curtain speech |
1946 This famous speech by Churchill references to the USSR's control over Eastern Europe an 'iron curtain' |
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East Germany joins USSR |
1949 After being occupied by the USSR since the end of WW2, East Germany finally becomes a separate communist state |
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NATO formed |
4th April 1949 Western European countries promise to defend each other against communist advances |
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Hungarian Revolution |
October 1956 Violent uprising results in 1,000 USSR tanks being sent to Budapest |
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Berlin Wall built |
August 1961 The West mocks it as an attempt to keep people from fleeing the USSR |
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Prague Spring |
January-August 1968 Despite passive resistance, 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops were sent in to deal with the rebellion |
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SALT 1 signed |
26th May 1972 USA and USSR put a limit on nuclear arms, easing tension between the superpowers |
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Nuclear build-ups |
1977 The USSR replaces out of date missiles 1979 USA responds by placing nuclear missiles in Europe |
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Gdańsk shipyard strike |
August 1980 Beginning of the Solidarity party in Poland Government was too preoccupied with the Afghanistan War so gave in to all their demands |
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Polish Martial Law introduced |
December 1981 Puppet leader of Poland, Jaruzelski, introduces martial law This leads to Lech Wałęsa's imprisonment, turning him into a martyr and inspiring Solidarity further |
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Arms Race slows |
1987 USA and USSR agree to stop producing medium-range missiles This allowed the Russian economy to recover slightly |
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Berlin Wall taken down |
4th November 1989 Destruction of Berlin Wall begins as a result of marches when Gorbachev visited in October |
