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Yalta Conference held
Britain, USA and the USSR plan for post-war Europe -
Germany Surrender
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Potsdam Conference held
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Churchill Iron Curtain speech
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Kennan's Long Telegram
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Bizonia created
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Truman Doctrine announced
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Marshall Plan announced
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Final communist regime established
Czechoslovakia forced into acceptin aommunism, to establish the last of the Eastern European countries into communist regimes -
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Berlin Blockade
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Comecon set up
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NATO set up
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West Germany established
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East Germany set up
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Truman announces Hydrogen Bomb production
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Korean War
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Formation of the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty
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European Defence Community established
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Stalin dies
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USSR explode Hydrogen Bomb
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Austrian State Treaty
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Khrushchev visits China
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Warsaw Pact created
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Revolution in Hungary
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Treaty of Rome sets up the EEC
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Khrushchev demand the allies to leave Berlin
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Khrushchev visits the USA and withdraws the Berlin demands
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US U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR