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When does Hitler attack the soviet union?

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June 1941

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When was the tehran conference?

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November 1943

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When was the yalta conference

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february 1945

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When was the potsdam conference

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july/august 1945

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when did usa drop the first atomic bomb

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a day before the potsdam conference

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when was churchills ‘iron curtain’ speech

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5 march 1946

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when was keenans long telegram

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22 february 1946

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when was the novikov telegram

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27 september 1946

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when was a communist government elected in poland

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january 1947

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when did communists seize power in czechoslovakia

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february 1948

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when did roosevelt die

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april 1945

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when was a communist government elected in hungary

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may 1949

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when did the usa explode an atomic bomb over nagaski

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9 august 1945

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when was the truman doctrine announced

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12 march 1947

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when did germany surrender

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may 1945

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when did the usa explode an atomic bomb over hiroshima

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6 august 1945

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when did the soviet union first successfully test the atomic bomb

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29 august 1949

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when was the marshall aid plan announced

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5 june 1947

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when was cominform set up

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22 september 1947

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when was the communist takeover of czechoslovakia

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february 1948

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when was the berlin blockade set up

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june 1948

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when was comecon established

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25 january 1949

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when did the USA, Britain and France permit there zones to come together to form the Federal Republic of Germany (west germany)

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23 may 1949

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when was NATO formed

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april 1949

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when was the Warsaw Pact formed
May 1955
20
when was the German Democratic Republic established
october 1949
21
when was yugoslavia expelled from cominform
june 1948
22
when did the western zones of germany and berlin come together to be called trizonia
march 1948
22
when did the soviet foreign ministers storm out during talks about Germany
march 1948
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when did the three allies create the deutschmark for trizonia
june 1948
24
when was the berlin blockade set up
june 1948
25
when did the berlin airlift start
june 1948
25
when was the chocolate drop
easter of 1949
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when did the berlin blockade end
9 may 1949
27
when were germans in west germany allowed to elect their own parliament, the Bundestag
14 august 1949
28
when did the first democratically elected chancellor (konrad adenauer) take office
15 september 1949
28
when was west germany allowed to join NATO
may 1955
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when did the USA develop the hydrogen bomb
1952
30
when did the Soviet Union develop the hydrogen bomb
1953
30
when did the USA develop the first ICBM
1957
31
when did the Soviet Union develop the ICBM
1957 ( a few months after USA)
31
when was the hungarian uprising
1956
32
when did the stalinist prime mnister, Rakosi, fall from power in Hungary
july 1956
32
when did the protests against communists become riots in budapest
october 1956
32
when does khrushchev agree that nagy could become prime minister of hungary
24 october 1956
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when did soviet troops withdraw from hungary, and hungary were promised free elections and free speech
28 october 1956
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When did nagy announce hungary were leaving the Warsaw Pact
3 november 1956
33
when did soviet troops return to hungary and regain control
4 november 1956
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when was nagy executed
july 1958
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when was the korean war
1950-53
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when were there riots against the government in East Germany
1953
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By what year had 3 million east germans crossed over to the west
1958
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when did khrushchev issue his berlin ultimatum
november 1958
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when was the geneva summit meeting
may 1959
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when was the camp david summit meeting
september 1959
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when was the paris summit meeting
may 1960
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When was the U-2 spy plane shot down
1 may 1960
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when was the vienna summit meeting
june 1961
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when was the berlin wall first put up
1961
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when did kennedy visit west berlin and give his 'ich bin ein Berliner' speech
june 1963
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when did castro become leader of cuba after a group of revolutionaries led by him and Che Guevara toppled the pro-American cuban government
january 1959
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when did the cuban government nationalise foreign-owned land in Cuba
may 1959
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when did castro sign an agreement with Khrushchev
february 1960
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when did the USA break off all diplomatic relations with Cuba
january 1961
48
when was the bay of pigs invasion
17 april 1961
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when did khrushchev publically announce he would provide arms to cuba
september 1961
50
when did a U-2 spy plane spot nuclear missile bases being built in cuba
october 1962
51
when did the USA place missiles in turkey
april 1962
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when did khrushchev and kennedy come to an agreement to remove missiles, not invade, turn ships around and lift the blockade
october 1962
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when was the the 'hotline' between washington and moscow set up
june 1963
54
when was the test ban treaty signed
august 1963
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when was the outer space treaty signed
1967
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when was the nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed
1968
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when did stalin die
5 march 1953
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when did krushchev come to power
february 1956
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when is khrushchev replaced by Brezhnev
1968
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when did roosevelt die
april 1945
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when did truman come to power
1945 (after roosevelts death)
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When did eisenhower come to power
january 1953
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when did kennedy come to power
1961
64
when was kennedy assassinated
1963
65
when did johnson come to power
1963 (after kennedys death)
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when did nixon come to power
1968
67
when did churchill lose power to atlee
1945
68
when did atlee lose power to churchill
1951
69
when did churchill lose power to eden
1955
70
when did eden lose power to macmillan
1957
71
when did macmillan lose power to Douglas-Home
1963
72
when did Douglas-Home lose power to wilson
1964
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