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19. USSR is formed
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21. Joseph Stalin comes Gradually comes to power.
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20. Lenin dies in Russia
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1. Yalta Conference
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2. The Potsdam Conference
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23. The term "Iron Curtain" is used by Churchill
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6. Truman Doctrine
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7. The Marshall Plan
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4. Berlin Blockade Begins
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8. NATO is Formed
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38. West Germany is founded.
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4. Berlin Blockade ends
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15. Soviet Union detonates first nuke
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6. Domino Theory created in the 50's
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5. Korean War
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22. Joseph Stalin Dies
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3. Cuban Revolution / Fidel Castro Comes to Power
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24. Battle of Dien Bien Phu starts
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24. Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends
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8. Warsaw Pact Established.
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25. Nikita comes to power.
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26. Nikita Khrushchev visits the USA
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11. U-2 Incident and Francis Gary Powers
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15. Julius and Ethel trial begins
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15. Julius and Ethel trial ends
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9. Bay of Pigs invasion, ended 2 days later
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10. Construction of the Berlin Wall begins.
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12. Cuban missile crisis starts
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12. Cuban missile crisis ends
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32. JFK visits Berlin/berlin wall.
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27. Nikita Khrushchev gets removed from office.
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28. Leonid Brezhnv Gains control of the USSR
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13. "prague spring" starts
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13. Prague spring ends
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16. Detente starts between US and USSR
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36. The Moscow Summit (Nixon visits USSR)
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36. Moscow Summit ends.
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14. Soviet war in afghanistan
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29. Yuri Andropov Becomes president of USSR
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29. Leonid B. Dies of a heart attack.
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33. Ronald Reagan labels the USSR the Evil Empire
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37. SDI (Star Wars Program) initiated.
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30. Yuri Andropov died of Kidney Failure.
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30. Konstantin Chernenko Gains control of USSR.
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31. Konstantin Chernenko dies of Liver cirrhosis
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31. Mikhail Gorbachev Gains control of USSR
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17. Perestroika/ glasnost
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33. Ronald Reagan visits Berlin wall.
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34. Tianamen Square Massacre.
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18. Berlin Wall falls.
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39. West and East Germany is Reunited.