International Affairs 1945-53

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1946-47
Famine
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June 1948-May 1949
Berlin Blockade
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1946-50
Fourth FYP
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1950-55
Fifth FYP
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1953-64
Krushchev thaw
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May 1940
Katyn Massacre
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November 1943
Tehran Conference
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October 1944
Moscow conference
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1944
Red army halted advance into Warsaw to allow time for Nazis to crush Warsaw uprising
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February 1945
Yalta conference
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July 1945
Potsdam Conference
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August 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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February 1946
Kennan’s long telegram
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September 1946
Decree ordering return to collectivisation
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March 1946
Churchill’s iron curtain speech
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March 1947
Truman Doctrine
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1947
India independence
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1947
Cominform set up
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1947
Communists got power in Hungary
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1948
Burma and Sri Lanka independence
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1948
Marshall Plan
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1948
Communists got power in Czechoslovakia
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August 1949
First successful test of Soviet atomic bomb
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1949
NATO formed
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1953
USSR military spending at 25%
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March 1953
Stalin died
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May 1955
Warsaw pact
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1960s
Some African and Caribbean countries independence
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1964
Cultural and political thaws ended with removal of Krushchev and instalment of Brezhnev
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1991
USSR dissolved