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The Bolshevek Revolution in Russia
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Period: to
Russian Civil War
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The Tehran Conference
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Normandy landings
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The Yalta Conference
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President Roosevelt died
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Winston Churchill’s conservative party lost
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The Emergence of Superpowers
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Period: to
Stalin and Mao
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Germany surrendered
unconditionally -
the US successfully tested its first atomic bomb
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US policy of containment in Europe had been successful
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EAST WEST RELATIONS
Agreement over Austria -
Period: to
SINO – AMERICAN RELATIONS: KOREAN WAR
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Period: to
USSR, THE PRC, and the Korean War
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected US President
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Stalin dies
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Americans include Taiwan in a part of their containment perimeter
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US STATE DEPARTMENT BULLETIN
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Period: to
TAIWAN
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GENEVA SUMMIT
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Bandung Conference
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Diem, with US support, refuses to hold elections
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Period: to
Mao, Khrushchev and the “split”
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Conference of Communist Parties
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Soviets launched the world’s first artificial Satellite – Sputnik
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Eisenhower was confident about US nuclear superiority
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Khrushchev visits Beijing
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Mao gears up to take Taiwan
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Soviets denounce GLF
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SINO- AMERICAN RELATIONS
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Kennedy is elected
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laws passed banning the celebration of Buddha’s birthday
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Kennedy is assassinated and Lyndon Johnson becomes President
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USA POLICY TOWARDS CHINA
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Period: to
Sino Soviet relations and the Cultural Revolution
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Johnson “light at the end of the tunnel”
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Nixon is elected
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Sino-Soviet Border War
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SINO-AMERICAN DÉTENTE
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NIXON VISITS CHINA
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Period: to
PARIS PEACE TALKS
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Peace settlement signed
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Vietnam signed a military alliance with USSR and invades Cambodia
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China invades Vietnam
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Period: to
Sino-Soviet Rapprochement
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GENEVA SUMMIT
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Gorbachev gets a Nobel Peace prize