Cold War
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Updated: 16 Feb 2021
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Created byOlivia Henderson
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Tehran conferenceYalta ConferenceRoosevelt diedAtom bomb dropped on HiroshimaPotsdam ConferenceTito elected president in YugoslaviaTruman received the Long telegramIron Curtain speechTruman DoctrineMarshall planCominform establishedComecon establishedUK and USA conbined zones to form bizoniaOperation Vittles - the Berlin airlift13,000 tonnes flown into West Berlin in 24 hoursStalin ended the Berlin blockadeNATO formedStalin diedUS estalished SEATOUSSR establish Warsaw pactUSSR detonated their first atomic bombUSA tested the H-bombUSSR detonates their first H-bombDestalinization speechRakoszki appointed dictator of HungaryNagy comes to power in HungarySoviet invasion of Hungary after Nagy announced a withdrawal from the Warsaw pactU2 spy plane sot down over USSR airspace40,000 people fled from East Berlin to West Berlin (in one day)Barbed wire fence was erected along the border18 hour tank stand off between USA and USSRBatista overthrown by Fidel Castro in Cuba1,400 American-trained Cuban exiles landed on the bay of pigsU2 spy plane captures pictures of missile launch site in CubaKennedy assembeled the ExcommKennedy assembles a naval blockasBob Kennedy and a soviet ambassador metKennedy assassinatedBrezhnev replaces KhrushchevDubcek appointed leader of Czechoslovakia500,000 Warsaw pact troops invaded CzechTest ban treaty signedOuter Space treaty signedNuclear non-proliferation treaty signedSALT 1 treaty signedPeriods
Communists took control in Albania and BulgariaCommmunist control in CzechCommunist rule established in Poland and RomaniaCommunists won elections in HungaryKorean warArms raceDetente
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