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USSR invaded by Germany

1914, 1941

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Tehran Conference

1943

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D-day landings

1944

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Yalta

February 1945

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Potsdam

July 1945

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Bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki

6,9 August 1945

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Chinese civil war restarts

1946

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Poland elections; Communist wins

January 1947

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US interference in Turkey and Greece

1947

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Truman Doctrine

1947

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COMINFORM

October 1947

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Marshall Plan

1948

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Berlin Blockade

1948-49

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USSR tests a-bomb

1949

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COMECON

January 1949

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NATO signed

April 1949

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Washington issues NSC-68

September 1949

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Mao announces PRC

1 October 1949

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Kim invades South Korea

1950

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UN forces land at Inchon

September 1950

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Mao sends 200,000 Chinese troops to Korean War

October 1950

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US tests H-bomb

1952

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Castro’s failed revolution

1953

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Ceasefire for Korean War

July 1953

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USSR tests H-bomb

August 1953

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West Germany allowed to re-arm and join NATO

1955

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Warsaw Pact

1955

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Red Army withdraws from Austria; becomes independent, neutral state

1955

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Secret Speech

February 1956

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COMINFORM dissolved

1956

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Sputnik

October 1957

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Hungarian Uprising

October-November 1956

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Collapse of Batista’s regime

January 1959

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Yuri Gagarin

April 1961

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Bay of Pigs

April 1961

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Berlin Wall

August 1961

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US embargo on Cuba

February 1962

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US blockades Cuba; U2 spyplane; submarine bombarded

October 1962

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Kennedy speech in West Berlin

1963

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Partial Test Ban Treaty

1963

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Dubcek replaces Novotny

January 1968

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Prague Spring

August 1968

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Moon landing

July 1969

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SALT1 talks begin

1969

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Apollo-Soyuz mission

1975