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The Cold War
Date

Summary

Detailed Information

February
4th - 11th
1945

Yalta
Conference

Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what
would happen at the end of the war
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July 17th
- August
2nd 1945

Potsdam
Conference

The Potsdam Conference formally divided Germany and Austria
into four zones
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The Russian Polish border was
determined and Korea was to be divided into Soviet and American
zones
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August
14th 1945

V J Day

The Japanese surrendered bringing World War Two to an end
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March 5th
1946

Churchill's Iron
Curtain Speech

Churchill delivers his 'Sinews of Peace' speech which contain
the famous phrase "
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The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any
Eastern Bloc country considering accepting aid was reprimanded
severely
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September
1947

Cominform

The USSR set up Cominform (Communist Information Bureau)
which was the Information Bureau of the Communist and
Workers' Parties responsible for the creation of the Eastern bloc
...
This meant
that those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and
faced starvation
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May 1949

End of Berlin
Blockade

Russia ended the blockade of Berlin
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March 5th
1953

Death of Stalin

Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74
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July 27th
1953

Korean War

The Korean war ended
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Summer
1954

Geneva
Accords

This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and
divided Vietnam into North and South states
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May 14th
1955

Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria,
and the Soviet Union
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It quickly gathered momentum and on 24th October
Soviet tanks entered Budapest
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The Soviet
tanks returned on 4th November encircling Budapest
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Hungary
fell to Russia on 10th November 1956
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The

attack was heavily criticised by World leaders, especially
America because Russia had offered support to Egypt
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November
1st 1957

Space Race

USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to
go into space
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April 12th
1961

Space Race

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first
human being in space
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The attempt failed
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October
14th 1962

Cuban
Missile Crisis

A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear
missile base in Cuba
...
War was averted when the
Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the weapons
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November
22nd 1963

JFK
Assassination

JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas
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October
15th 1964

USSR

Nikita Krushchev removed from office
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July 1965

Vietnam War

150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam
...

When he refused to halt his programme of reforms Dubcek was
arrested
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20th July

Space Race

US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became

1969

the first man on the Moon
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September
3rd 1971

Four Power
Agreement
Berlin

The Four Power Agreement made between Russia, USA, Britain and
France reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries
with regard to Berlin
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August
15th 1973

Vietnam

The Paris Peace Accords ended American involvement in Vietnam
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Any
supporters of the former regime, anyone with links or supposed links
to foreign governments as well as many intellectuals and professionals were executed
in a genocide that became known as the 'killing fields'
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The capture of Saigon by the
North Vietnamese led to the whole country becoming Communist

July 1975

Apollo-Soyuz
Test Project

Joint space venture between USA and USSR heralded as an end to
the 'Space Race'

January
20th 1977

Carter
President

Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States

November
4th 1979

Iranian hostage
crisis

A group of Iranian students and militants stormed the American
embassy and took 53 Americans hostage to show their support for
the Iranian Revolution
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Other countries including Great Britain participated
under the Olympic flag rather than their national flag

December
13th 1980

Poland

Martial law was declared to crush the Solidarity movement

January
20th 1981

Iranian hostage
crisis ended

The Iranian hostage crisis ended 444 days after it began

June 1982

START

During a summit in Geneva Reagan proposed Strategic Arms
Reduction Talks

July 1984

Olympic
boycott by
Russia

Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in
retaliation for the US boycott of 1980
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He also advocated free elections and ending the arms race
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The death count is unknown
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December
2nd, 3rd
1989

Malta Summit

This meeting between Mikhail Gorbachov and George H W Bush
reversed much of the provisions of the Yalta Conference 1945
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December
16th 25th 1989

Romanian
Revolution

Riots broke out which culminated in the overthrow and execution
of the leader Ceauşescu and his wife
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1st July
1991

End of Warsaw
Pact

The Warsaw Pact which allied Communist countries was ended

31st July
1991

START

The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia
and the USA

25th
December
1991

Gorbachev
resigned

Mikhail Gorbachev resigned

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