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When was the Long Telegram?
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February 22nd 1946
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When was the Iron Curtain Speech?
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5th March 1946
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When was Potsdam conference?
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17th July 1945
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When was Yalta conference?
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4th February 1945
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When did Berlin blockade start?
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24th June 1948
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when does US drop bombs on Japan?
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August 6 & 9: U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945
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When does Soviet union declare war on Japan?
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August 8th 1945
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When was the Brussels Pact?
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Signed 17 March 1948
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When was the percentages agreement and what was it?
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The Percentages Agreement was made in October 1944. It was a secret, informal agreement between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during the Fourth Moscow Conference to divide Eastern Europe into spheres of influenc
A Level History- Cold War
flashcards
Decks in class (29)
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Key Cold War dates9
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Early Cold War consolidation questions5
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Conflicting Idealogies1
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Grand Alliance action in european countries during WW214
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Yalta Conference4
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Widening of the Cold War Key dates3
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Widening of the Cold War: Japan4
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NSC68- Section 2 The Widening of the Cold War, 1949-1955 Chapter 1 US Containment in action in Asia1
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Section 2 Widening of the Cold War Chapter 2 The Korean War 1950-5318
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McCarthyism in the USA The influence of McCarthyism on Britain and Europe13
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Expansion of Alliance Systems Chapter #4 Alliances and ShiftsSection 2:The Widening of the Cold War, 1949-19551
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Eisenhower Dulles and BrinkmanshipChapter #4 Alliances and ShiftsSection 2:The Widening of the Cold War, 1949-19557
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The domino theory and US attitude to the French Indochina Chapter #4 Alliances and ShiftsSection 2:The Widening of the Cold War, 1949-19550
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The Geneva Conference- Chapter #4 Alliances and ShiftsSection 2:The Widening of the Cold War, 1949-19551
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Indochina- Section 2 The Widening of the Cold War 1949-1955- Chapter 4 Alliances and Shifts1
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De-Stalinisation Section 3 Section 3: The Global War, 1955-63 Khrushchev and East-West relations. 1955-606
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Polish Uprising 1956- Causes, events and impacts Section 3: The Global War, 1955-63 Khrushchev and East-West relations. 1955-602
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Hungarian Uprising 1956- Causes, events and impacts Section 3: The Global War, 1955-63 Khrushchev and East-West relations. 1955-603
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Peaceful co-existence & Austrian State Treaty 1955 SECTION THREE The Global War, 1955-1963 Chapter #1 Khrushchev and East-West relations 1955-606
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Geneva Summit September 1955, Paris Summit May 196011
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Arms race; ICBMs, Gaither Report, U2 spy plane incident, significance Slides26
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Space Race : Sputnik, Gagarin, significance4
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The Berlin Crisis: reasons for Kruschev's intensification of policy in Berlin, GDR + FDR, Hallstein doctrine and response, U-2 affair, the Berlin wall, response from West and signficance17
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Ho Chi Minh & Consolidation of power in North Vietnam, collectivisation & the revolutionary violence strategy, the NLF & the Vietcong27
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Diem: nature of regime, Buddhist crisis, Lodge coup & assassination24
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The US & Kennedy’s policies towards Indochina: Domino theory, hawks & doves, Maxwell Taylor’s report of 1961, the Strategic Hamlet Program, the use of napalm & Agent Orange52
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US attitudes to Cuba and developments leading up to the missile crisis, historical background pre 1959, Bay of Pigs 1961, Operation Mongoose 1961 and Operation Anadyr13
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The 13 days of the missile crisis0
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The significance of the crisis including the Test Ban Treaty & implications for Kennedy, Khrushchev & Castro0
