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22 Cards in this Set
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1945
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February - Yalta
July - Potsdam |
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1946
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Churchill's speech - "Iron Curtain"
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1947
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Truman Doctrine
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1948
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Marshall Aid
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1948/9
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Berlin Blockade
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1949
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1) NATO is formed.
2) USSR gets atom bomb. 3) China goes communist. |
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1950
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Korean War breaks out.
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1953
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1) Korean War ends.
2) Josef Stalin dies. |
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1955
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Warsaw Pact is formed.
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1956
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Hungarian Uprising
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1959
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Castro takes Cuba
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1961
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1) Bay of Pigs
2) Berlin Wall is built. |
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1962
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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1963
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1) Hotline established.
2) J.F. Kennedy assassinated. 3) Test Ban Treaty. |
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1968
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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1972
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SALT Treaty signed
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1975
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Helsinki Agreement
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1979
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1) SALT II treaty is signed June 18 in Vienna, though never ratified because 6 months later, the USSR deployed troops into Afghanistan and in September of the same year, senators discovered the so-called "Soviet Brigade" in Cuba.
2) USSR invades Afghanistan on Christmas Day. |
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1980
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US boycotts the Moscow Olympics
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1984
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USSR boycotts Los Angeles Olympics
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1985
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Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
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1987
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INF treaty signed
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