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WW2 begins
1939
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Grand alliance (Britain + USA + Soviet Union)
June 1941
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Germany invades Soviet Union
June 1941
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Tehran Conference
Nov 1943
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Yalta Conference
Feb 1945
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Potsdam Conference
July 1945
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USA drops atom bombs
Aug 1945
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Keenan’s Long Telegram
Feb 1946
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Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
Mar 1946
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Novikov Telegram
sep 1946
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Truman Doctrine
mar 1947
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marshall plan
june 1947
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first cominform meeting
sep 1947
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berlin blockade
june 1948
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comecon established
jan 1949
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nato formed
apr 1949
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founding of federal republic of germany (west)
sep 1949
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german democratic republic (east)
oct 1949
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warsaw pact
may 1955
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usa successfully tests hydrogen bomb
nov 1952
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eisenhower president
jan 1953
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stalin dies
mar 1953
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ussr successfully tests hydrogen bomb
aug 1953
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west germany joins nato
may 1955
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khrushchev new leader
feb 1956
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hungarian uprising
nov 1956
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usa launches first ICBM
june 1957
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ussr tests first ICBM
aug 1957
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imre nagy (hungary pm) executed
june 1958
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khrushchev berlin ultimatum
nov 1958
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geneva summit
may 1959
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camp david summit
sep 1959
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u2 crisis (paris summit)
may 1960
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jfk president
jan 1961
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vienna summit (berlin ultimatum renewed)
june 1961
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construction of berlin wall
aug 1961
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kennedy visits berlin
june 1963
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castro becomes leader of cuba
jan 1959
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castro signs agreement with khrushchev
feb 1960
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usa breaks diplomatic relations with cuba
jan 1961
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bay of pigs
aug 1961
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u2 spy plane pictures soviet missiles in cuba
14 oct 1962
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start of ‘thirteen days’
16 oct 1962
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ussr agrees to remove nuclear missiles from cuba if missiles in turkey was removed
28 oct 1962
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hotline
june 1963
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test ban treaty
aug 1963
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dubcek !!! becomes leade of czech gov
jan 1968
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prague spring
apr 1968
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soviet invasion into czechoslovakia
aug 1968
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brezhnev doctrine
sep 1968
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nixon president
1968
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brandt chancellor of west germany
1969
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detente
1969-1979
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salt 1
1972
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helsinki accords
1975
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salt 2
1979
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ussr invades afghanistan
1979
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carter doctrine
1980
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olympic boycott
1980
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reagan elected
1980
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second cold war
1980
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brezhnev dies
1982
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SDI (star wars)
1983
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gorbachev becomes soviet leader
1985
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reykjavik summit
1986
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intermediate-range nuclear force treaty
1987
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moscow summit
1988
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fall of berlin wall
1989
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gorbachev nobel prize
1990
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gorbachev overthrown, soviet union dissolves
1991
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