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USSR invaded by Germany
1914, 1941
Tehran Conference
1943
D-day landings
1944
Yalta
February 1945
Potsdam
July 1945
Bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki
6,9 August 1945
Chinese civil war restarts
1946
Poland elections; Communist wins
January 1947
US interference in Turkey and Greece
1947
Truman Doctrine
1947
COMINFORM
October 1947
Marshall Plan
1948
Berlin Blockade
1948-49
USSR tests a-bomb
1949
COMECON
January 1949
NATO signed
April 1949
Washington issues NSC-68
September 1949
Mao announces PRC
1 October 1949
Kim invades South Korea
1950
UN forces land at Inchon
September 1950
Mao sends 200,000 Chinese troops to Korean War
October 1950
US tests H-bomb
1952
Castro’s failed revolution
1953
Ceasefire for Korean War
July 1953
USSR tests H-bomb
August 1953
West Germany allowed to re-arm and join NATO
1955
Warsaw Pact
1955
Red Army withdraws from Austria; becomes independent, neutral state
1955
Secret Speech
February 1956
COMINFORM dissolved
1956
Sputnik
October 1957
Hungarian Uprising
October-November 1956
Collapse of Batista’s regime
January 1959
Yuri Gagarin
April 1961
Bay of Pigs
April 1961
Berlin Wall
August 1961
US embargo on Cuba
February 1962
US blockades Cuba; U2 spyplane; submarine bombarded
October 1962
Kennedy speech in West Berlin
1963
Partial Test Ban Treaty
1963
Dubcek replaces Novotny
January 1968
Prague Spring
August 1968
Moon landing
July 1969
SALT1 talks begin
1969
Apollo-Soyuz mission
1975
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