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Communism
Ideology held by the USSR
Capitalism
Ideology held by the USA
1943
Tehran Conference
Tehran attendees
Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt
United Nations was agreed to be formed
Tehran
Yalta Conference
February 1945
First conference of 1945
Yalta
Germany and Berlin would be split into four
Yalta Conference
Soviet sphere of influence
Yalta Conference
Attendees of Yalta
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill
Potsdam Conference
July 1945
Potsdam attendees
Stalin, Truman and Attlee
Free elections
Potsdam
Atomic Bomb by USA
1945
Telegrams
1946
Telegram names
Long and Novikov
Truman Doctrine
1947
Containment
To stop the development and spread of communism, also a theory developed by Eisenhower
Marshall Plan
1947
Money given to countries in Marshall Plan
$13 billion
Amount of countries given Marshall Plan money
16 Eastern European countries
Cominform
1947
Comecon
1949
Berlin Crisis
1948
Stalin removes all rail and road traffic
Between east and west berlin
Time planes flown in Berlin Blockade
Every 90 seconds
Tonnes flown in blockade everyday
4600
Planes flew in total in blockade
275,000
NATO
1949
NATO acronym
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Warsaw Pact
1955
NATO countries
16
Warsaw Pact countries
8
Hungarian Uprising
1956
Rakosi killed
2000
Rakosi imprisoned
200,000
Hungarian leaders
Rakosi to Nagy
Troops sent to Hungary
20,000
Troops killed in Hungary
7000
Khrushchev about Berlin
"Fishbone caught in my throat"
Refugees moved from east to west berlin
2.7 million
USA's time to leave Berlin
6 months
Bay of Pigs
1961
Cuba leaders
Batista to Castro
Cuban exiles at Bay of Pigs
1400
Cuban soldiers at Bay of Pigs
20,000
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Spy plane for America
American U2 spy plane
Blockade of boats
Cuban Missile Crisis
Stand off at Cuban missile crisis
13 days
Distance between America and Cuba
95km
Limited Test Ban Treaty
1963
Hotline
Washington and Moscow
Nuclear weapons were only allowed to be tested
Underground
Berlin Wall
1961
The wall measurements
3.6m high and 1.2m wide
Kennedy quote on Berlin
"Ich bin ein Berliner"
Berlin Wall protection
Dogs, barbed wire and soldiers
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968
Leaders of Czechoslovakia
Novotny to Dubcek
Prague Spring Reforms
"Socialism with a new face"
Troops sent to Czechoslovakia
250,000
Reforms made in Czechoslovakia
Free speech, end of censorship, reduce soviet influence
Brezhnev Doctrine
1968
Military would be used to prevent countries from falling away from communism
The Brezhnev doctrine
DĂ©tente
1970's
Nixon Moscow Visits
1972 and 1974
Space Link Up
1975
American space team
Astronauts
Soviet space team
Cosmonauts
Helsinki Agreements
1975
Three baskets at Helsinki
Co-operation, security and human rights
SALT I
1972
SALT acronym
Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty
Weapons used in the 1970's
Anti-ballistic missiles
SALT II
1979
SALT I failure
Neither countries followed the agreement
Invasion of Afghanisatan
1979
Afghanistan leaders
Taraki to Amin to Karmal
End of détente
Afghanistan
Christmas Day 1979
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Troops sent to Afghanistan
50,000
Election of Reagan
1980
Reagan reference of USSR
"Evil empire"
USA Military Spending increased under Reagan
$1 trillion
Strategic Defence Initiative
Use lasers in space to shoot down USSR
NUTS Policy
Law that allows use of nuclear weapons
Reagan's new weapons
Long range bombers, 6 tridents and neutron bombs
Gorbachev elected
1985
Gorbachev's new thinking
1987
Glasnot
Openness
Perestrokia
Economic restructuring
INF Treaty
1987
INF acronym
Intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty
Fall of Berlin Wall
1989
Removed the Berlin wall
Berliners
Withdrawal of troops in Berlin
1990
Collapse of USSR
Christmas Day 1991
Gang of Eight
Failed coup to overthrow Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Replaced Gorbachev
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