The Cold War

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25/05/1961

Kennedy announces by the end of the decade he will have put a man on the moon

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04/10/1957

USSR send the 1st manmade satellite orbit the Earth

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03/11/1957

USSR send the 1st animal into space dog called Laika

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18/12/1958

USA launch the 1st communications satellite

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12/04/1961

USSR send the 1st man into space Yuri Gagarin

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05/05/1961

USA send the 1st human crewed spaceship controlled by Alan Shepard

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16/06/1963

USSR send the 1st woman into space Valentina Tereshkova

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20/07/1964

USA put the 1st man on the moon Neil Armstrong

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23/04/1971

USSR 1st human crewed spaceship

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15/07/1975

USA and USSR Apollo-Soyuz

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06+07/1953

War reaches stalemate Ceasefire

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1949

Kim asks Stalin to help him invade South Korea

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06/1950

North Korea invades South Korea

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09/1950

USA lands in Inchon drove North Korea back to the 38th parallel

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10/1950

China takes Seoul

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04/1950

General MacArthur is dismissed for calling nuclear arms

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1950

Stalin agrees to send equipment but no troops

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1950 (2)

The UN votes to withdraw North Korean soldiers Send troops to support Rhee's government

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1949

NATO formed

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Original NATO countries 12

UK, USA, Canada, France, Norway, The Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg, Portugal, West Germany

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Original Warsaw countries 8

USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Hungary, Poland, East Germany

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Where was NATO held?

1952-USA and UK 1990-France

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Where was WP held?

USSR

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NATO who had the most power

Collective USA: maj of funds, fire power, built bases in West Europe

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WP who had the most power?

Collective USSR: fire power, decisions made in Moscow

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NATO military

50 divisions (25 active) 1952- strength increased

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WP military

175 divisions 35,000 tanks 100,000 aircrafts 5,500,000 personnel

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05/04/1948

Soviet and GB plane crashes

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04/1948

Mini Blockade

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24/04/1948

Full Blockade

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12/05/1949

End of Blockade

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26/06/1948

400 tonnes/3mins/day

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23/05/1949

FDR

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15/04/1949

Easter Parade

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03/1948

West Berlin unifies East follows

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10/1949

GDR

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