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1945

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  • Jan/Feb: Yalta Conference
  • May: The Defeat of Germany
  • July: Potsdam Conference
  • August: The Defeat of Japan
  • Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes US president
  • Formation of the UN
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1946

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  • Beginning of the French-Indochina War

- Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech

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1947

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  • March: The Truman Doctrine
  • The Marshall Plan
  • Cominform
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1948

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  • Czechoslovakia fully taken over by communists
  • Berlin Blockade and Airlift
  • Creation of the State of Israel. First Arab-Israeli War
  • UK, US and France unite their zones of Germany
  • Germany and Berlin now divided into East vs West
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1949

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  • End of the Berlin Blockade
  • Soviet Union explodes an atom bomb
  • China becomes communist under Mao Zedang
  • NATO is established
  • Comecon is set up
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1950

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  • NSC-68

- North Korea invades South Korea. Start of the Korean War

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1951

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  • General MacArthur is sacked by President Truman
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1952

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  • Election of Dwight Eisenhower as US President
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1953

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  • End of the Korean War
  • Stalin dies and Khrushchev becomes Soviet Leader
  • Khrushchev begins talks of peaceful coexistence
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1954

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  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

- The Geneva Conference

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1955

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  • Ngo Dinh Diem becomes president of South Vietnam

- Warsaw Pact is established

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1956

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  • Suez War

- Polish and Hungarian uprisings

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1957

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  • launch of Sputnik
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1958

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  • Berlin Crisis
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1959

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  • Cuban Revolution

- Khrushchev’s visit to the US

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1960

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  • U2 incident

- Sino-Soviet Split

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1961

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  • Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • Kennedy-Khrushchev Vienna Summit
  • Building of the Berlin Wall
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1962

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  • Cuban Missile Crisis
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1963

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  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  • Murder of Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Assassination of JFK, replaced by Johnson
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1964

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  • 23,000 US advisors in Vietnam
  • creation of the PLO
  • Khrushchev is overthrown, Brezhnev now Soviet Leader
  • Vietnam War begins
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1965

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  • President Johnson commits troops to Vietnam
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1966

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  • 385,000 troops in Vietnam
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1967

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  • Six Day War in the Middle East
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1968

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  • The TET offensive
  • Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia - prague Spring
  • Election of President Nixon
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1969
- Apollo II Moon Landing | - Nixon begins Vietnamisation
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1970
- US invasion of Cambodia
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1971
- Kissinger's Secret Mission to China
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1972
- Nixon-Brezhnev summit - SALT 1 Treaty - Nixon visits China - US Xmas bombing of North Vietnam
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1973
- Paris Peace Accords. US pulls out of vietnam | - Yom Kippur War in the Middle East
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1974
- Nixon resigns over Watergate Scandal | - Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty is signed by USA and USSR
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1975
- South Vietnam taken over by communists - Helsinki Agreement - Joint Soyuz-Apollo space mission
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1976
- formal reunification of North and South Vietnam | - Jimmy Carter becomes president
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1977
- Election of President Carter
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1978
- Camp David Agreement between the US, Israel and Egypt | - Vietnam invades Cambodia
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1979
- China invades Vietnam - Ayatollah Khomeini takes power in Iran - Iran hostage crisis - Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan - SALT II is signed - end of detente
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1980
- unsuccessful US rescue attempt of Iranian hostages | - Election of President Ronald Reagan
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1981
- over 110,000 Soviet troops in afghanistan
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1982
- Brezhnev dies. Andropov now soviet leader | - Israeli invasion of Lebanon
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1983
- US invasion of Grenada - Soviets shoot down Korean flight 007 - Start of SDI (star wars)
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1984
- Andropov dies. Chernenko becomes Soviet Leader | - Reagan re-elected as president
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1985
- Reagan embroiled in the Iran-Contra affair - Chernenko dies. Gorbachev becomes soviet leader - Reagan-Gorbachev Geneva summit
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1986
- Chernobyl incident - Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik summit - Glasnost and Perestroika
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1987
- INF treaty | - start of the Intifada
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1988
- Reagan visits Moscow
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1989
- Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan - East European revolutions - Fall of the Berlin Wall
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1990
- End of communist control of Eastern Europe confirmed | - reunification of Germany
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1991
- START treaty signed - August coup by Soviet hard liners against Gorbachev - Collapse of the Soviet Union - End of the Cold War no longer in doubt - Warsaw Pact is dissolved
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1943
- Tehran conference
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