S7.1 History: Key dates

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Yalta Conference

04-11.02.45

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WW2 end in Europe
08.05.45
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US’s first successful A-bomb test
16.07.1945
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Potsdam Conference

17.07-02.08.45

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WW2 end
02.09.45
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UN formed, 51 countries, 5 security council
24.10.1945
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Foulton speech
05.03.46
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Truman Doctrine, speech to congress
12.03.47
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Zhdanov doctrine, meeting in PO w all communist parties
22.09.47
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Economic Recovery Act of 1948, 17 countries
03.03.48
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FRG announced
01.06.48
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Deutschemark introduced
20.06.48
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OEEC (Org for Eu Eco Coop), 18 Marshall members
16.04.48
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Berlin blockade starts
24.06.48
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Berlin airlift starts
26.06.48
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COMECON (council for mutual economic foundation), 6 members
25.01.49
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Berlin blockade/airlift ends
12.05.49
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NATO, 12 founding
04.04.49
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Korean war starts, NK troops invade SK
25.06.50
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Korean war ends, ceasefire signed
27.07.1953
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Warsaw pact, 8 founding
14.05.55
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Vietnam War begins
01.11.55
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“Secret speech,” Khrushchev denounces Stalin
25.02.56
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U2-incident, aircraft shot down, forbidden spying
01.05.60
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Night, barbed wire through Berlin
12/13.08.61
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Wall construction complete
22.08.61
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Cuban missile crisis starts, U2 plane photographs missiles in Cuba
14.10.62
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JFK announces naval blockade
22.10.62
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Cuban missile crisis ends, JFK agrees to remove
28.10.62
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Red telephone
30.08.63
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Tet Offensive, coordinated NV attack
31.01.68
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My Lai massacre
16.03.68
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Bratislava declaration, 6 signed affirming loyalty to communism
03.08.68
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Prague invasion night, 5 Warsaw Pact countries
20-21.08.68
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SALT 1
26.05.1972
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Yom Kippur war starts, Egypt and Syria surprise attack, Israel vs Arab states
06.10.73
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Yom Kippur war ends, UN brokers ceasefire
25.10.73
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End of Vietnam war, fall of Saigon
30.04.75
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Helsinki accords, 35 countries
01.08.75
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Oil crisis
1979
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SALT 2
18.06.79
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Hostage crisis begins, 53
04.11.79
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Afghanistan begins
24.12.79
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Operation Eagle Claw
24.04.80
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Olympics, boycotted by 65 countries
19.07-03.08.80
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Hostages released
20.01.81
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SDI announced
23.03.83
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Chernobyl
26.04.86
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INF treaty in Reykjavik, eliminating s&l-range nuclear weapons
08.12.87
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Soviets withdrawal, end war
15.02.89
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Poland falls, “solidarity” victory in partially free elections
04.06.89
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Berlin Wall falls
09.11.89
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Romania falls, army goes over to protestors’ side and capture dictator
22.12.89
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Gorbachev resigns
25.12.91
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USSR formally dissolved
31.12.1991 midnight