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The start of the cold war
Defeat of Germany and Japan -
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchhill, stalin - 'the Big Tree' Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins -
VE Day
VE day- Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin -
Potsdam Conference
Germany was offcially partitioned into four zones of occupation -
Atomic Bomb
The United States droped atomic bombs on hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000) -
Russia
Russia declares war on Japan -
Second Atomic bomb
The United States Drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki (22 kiloton ' Fat Man' kills 70,000) -
Surrendering
Japanese surrender End of World War II -
VJ Day
Emperor surrender broadcast -
Beging of 1946
Stalin hostile speach - communism & Capitalism were incompatible -
"Sinews Of Peace"
iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill - "an ironcurtain" has descended -
Truman
Truamn demands Russia leave Iran -
Start of 1947 Containment
Truman Doctrine- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War -
Operation Crossroads
With test able was te first public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal -
America's Test baker
underwater explosion -
Marshall plan
Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, desease and malnutrition -
Rio Pack
U.S meet 19 ls Latin American countries and created a security Zone around the hemisphere -
Start of 1948 Containment
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia -
Truman
Truman's loyalty program created to catch cold War Spies -
Brussels Pack
organized to protect Europe from communism -
Berlin Blockade
begins lasting 11 months -
Communist Witch hunt
Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty test -
Start of 1949 Containment
NATO ratified -
Berlin Blockade ends
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Korean War
Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons -
Russoa tested its first atomic bomb
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Communist Mao Zedong
takes control of china and establishes the people's Republic of China -
Federal Cilvil Defense
Administration Established -
Truman
fires MacArthur -
A- Bombs
developed by Britain -
Nuclear Arms Race Atomic (March 17-June 4)
test series of 111 explosions at Nevada Test Site -
RAND Report
on the "Vulnerability of U.S Strategic Air Power" -
Korean
Korean War ends -
Ike's Atoms for peace
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H-bomb
Castle-Bravo test -
KGB established
CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in iran and Guatemala -
Vietnam split at 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact formed
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USSR......
sent takes into Poznan, poland, to supress demonstrations by workers -
URRS
sent military aid to Afghanistan -
Rebellion
put down in Communist Hungary October- november -
Suex crisis
began with israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the sinai Egypt took control of Suez -
Vostok
rocket launched 1st ICBM -
Sputnik
launched into orbit -
Sputnik 2
launched - Laika died in space -
Explorer 1 launched
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NASA
began Mercury project using Atlas rocket -
Khrushchev
demands withdrawal of troops from berlin -
Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
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Khrushchev
visits United states ; The Kitchen Debate -
A- bombs Developed by france
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Soviet Union
reveals that U.S spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory -
John F Kennedy
elected President of USA -
Cuba
opeanly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their Policies -
Berlin border is closed
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Construction
of berlin Wall begans -
U.S involvement in Vietnam increases
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin incident
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A-bomb developed by china
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U.S Marines
sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism -
Announcement of dispatching
of 200,000 U.S troops to vietnam -
B-52s
Bomb North Vietnam -
The US secretary of Defence
Robert McNameara admits that the US bombing raids had failed to meet their objectives -
North Korea captured U.S.S Pueblo
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President Johnson
does not run for the presidency and Richard Nixon Elected President of the USA -
Soviet REd Army Crush Csechoslovakian revolt
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon
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President Nixon entends Vietnam War to Cambodia
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Publication of the Pentagon Papers
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President Richard Nixton visits china
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S.A.L.T 1 was signed
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Cease Fire
in vietnam between North Vietnam and United states -
U.S supported coup overthrows Chilean goverment
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Egypt and Syria
attack Israel ; Egypt requests Soviet aid -
President Nixon resigns
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North Vietnam
defeats SouVietnam which falls to Communist forces -
Soviet and Cuban
Forces help to install Communist goverment in Angola -
U.S and China
establish diplomatic relations -
S.A.L.T 2 Signed
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Shah of Iran overthrown:
Iraian Hostage Crisis -
Polish shipyard Workers strike Solidarity Union formed.
Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the Head of Solidarity. -
U.S troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada
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President Reagan proposes Strategic Defence Initiative
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Mikhail Gorbachev
becomes leader ofr the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "Glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika" -
Reagan and Gorbachev
agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles from Europe -
President Reagan and Gorbachev
resovle to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe -
Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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Communist Government
fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania -
Berlin Wall is demolished and East Germany
allows unrestricted migration to West Germany -
Poland becomes independent
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Hungary becomes independent
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decline of the Soviet empire
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lithuania becomes independent
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End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
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Boris Yeltsin elected as president of Russia
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Germany reunited
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