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72 Cards in this Set
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Tehran Conference |
1943 |
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Yalta Conference |
February 1945 |
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Potsdam Conference |
July 1945 |
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Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech |
1946 |
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Countries Liberated by Red Army become Communist, forming a buffer zone |
1945-1949 |
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Britain withdraws support from Greece, USA give $400 million |
February 1947 |
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Truman Doctrine issued |
MArch 1947 |
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Marshall Aid is set up |
January 1948 |
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USSR Set up 'Cominform' |
1947 |
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USSR Set up 'Comecon' |
1949 |
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Bizonia is formed |
1947 |
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Trizonia is formed |
1948 |
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Deutschmark introduced to Trizonia |
1948 |
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Berlin Blockade |
June 1948 - May 1949 |
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Berlin Airlift |
June 1948 - September 1949 |
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Communist Revolution in China |
1948 - 1949 |
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NATO is formed |
April 1949 |
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FRG (West Germany) created and given Marshall Aid |
May 1949 |
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GDR (East Germany) created |
1949 |
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USSR explode their first atomic bomb |
July 1949 |
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Korean War |
1950-1953 |
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H-Bomb devolped |
1952 |
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Stalin Dies |
1953 |
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FRG (West Germany) joins NATO |
1955 |
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Warsaw Pact is signed |
1955 |
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Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' |
February 1956 |
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Rioting in Poland, Loyalist government is imposed |
June - October 1956 |
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Hungarian Uprising |
October 1956 |
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Khrushchev begins world tour |
1957 |
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USSR launch first satellite 'Sputnik' |
1957 |
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Khrushchev demands allies leave Berlin |
Novemeber 1958 |
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Castro seizes Cuba from Batista |
1959 |
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USSR Dominate at the Olympics |
1956 & 1960 |
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Gary Powers (U2 Pilot) is shot down over the USSR, causing the USA to admit to spying |
May 1960 |
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No movement is allowed between East and West Germany without a pass |
September 1960 |
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USSR put 'Laika' and then Yuri Gagarin into space |
1961 |
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Bay of Pigs invasion |
April 1961 |
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Khrushchev and Kennedy meet in Vienna |
June 1961 |
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Berlin Wall built |
August 1961 |
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Castro announces Communist Government in Cuba |
December 1961 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
October 1962 |
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Test Ban treaty and Hot Line |
1963 |
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Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev |
1964 |
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Johnson puts US troops in Vietnam |
1965 |
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Brezhnev uses Warsaw pact troops in Czechoslovakia |
1968 |
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Non-Proliferation Treaty Signed |
1968 |
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USA put a man on the Moon |
1969 |
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Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States |
1969 |
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SALT talk
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1970-1972
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MBFR treaty signed |
1971 |
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US and USSR astronauts link up in space |
1975 |
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Helsinki Agreement |
1975 |
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SALT II talks
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1974-1978
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Carter criticises USSR policies on Human Rights |
1977 |
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Hostages taken in Iran |
1979 |
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SS-20 missiles placed in Eastern Bloc |
1979 |
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NATO deploy Pershing and Cruise missiles in Europe |
1979 |
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USSR invade Afghanistan |
Christmas Day 1979 |
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SALT II collapses |
1979 |
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Moscow Olympics boycotted by USA |
1980 |
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Reagen elected by reputation for being tough on Communism and lowering taxes, Calling the USSR an 'Evil Empire' |
1981 |
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Reagen offers 'Zero Option' on IRMs
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1981
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Martial Law in Poland, Lech Walesa arrested. Solidarity banned |
December 1981 |
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START talks begin |
1982 |
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USA introduce SDI (Star Wars) |
1982 |
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USSR has Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko. No decisions are made, Red Army is in Charge, Corruption is growing, Black Market Flourishes |
1981 - 1985 |
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Gorbachev becomes new leader after growing up Post Stalin |
1985 |
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Gorbachev introduces Glasnost and Perestroika |
1985 |
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Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF Treaty |
1987 |
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Poland and Hungary leave Warsaw Pact without USSR intervention |
1989 |
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Berlin Wall is pulled down |
Novemeber 1989 |
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Gorbachev and Bush announce Cold War is over |
December 1989 |
