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46 Cards in this Set
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Yalta conference
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February 1945
Start of cold war |
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Potsdam conference
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July 1945
Germany divided |
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USA drops first atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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August 1945
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Iron Curtain speech by Winston Churchill
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March 1946
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Truman doctrine
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March 1947
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Marshall plan
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June 1947
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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February 1948
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Berlin blockade
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June 1948 (last 11 months)
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NATO ratified
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April 1949
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Berlin Blockade ends
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May 1949
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Russia tests its first A-bomb
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August 1949
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Mao takes control and establishes the People´s Republic of China
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October 1949
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Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt in USA
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February 1950
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Korean War begins
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1950
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Britain develops A-bomb
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1952
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Korean war ends
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1953
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Stalin dies
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1953
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Vietnam split at 17th parallel
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July 1954
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USSR sent tanks Poland to stop demonstrations
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June 1956
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USSR invades Hungary
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October - November 1956
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Sputnik launched into orbit
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October 1957
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Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin
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November 1958
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Cuba is taken over by Castro
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January 1959
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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April 1961
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Construction of Berlin Wall begins
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August 1961
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Cuban Missile crisis
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October 1962
(JFK, Castro and Khrushchev) |
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Nuclear test ban ratified
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July 1963
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Gulf of Tonkin incident
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August 1964
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China develops a-bomb
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October 1964
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Soviet invades Czechoslovakia
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August 1968
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Nixon visits China
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February 1972
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SALT I is signed
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July 1972
(Nixon and Brezhnev) |
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Ceasefire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and USA
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January 1973
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North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
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April 1975
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SALT II is signed
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July 1979
(Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev) |
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Solidarity is formed
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August 1980
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR
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1985
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Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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January 1989
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Poland becomes independent
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June 1989
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Hungary becomes independent
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September 1989
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Berlin Wall is demolished
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November 1989
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania
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December 1989
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Lithuania becomes independent
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March 1990
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Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia
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May 1990
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Germany reunited
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October 1990
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End of Soviet Union and Cold War
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August 1991
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