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Period: to
40s
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FRIENDSHIP WITH SOVIET UNION
Hitler, without consulting his Italian and Japanese allies, concluded a pact of friendship and nonaggression with the Soviet Union. -
The Nazi Party in World War II
German troops invaded Norway, and Vidkun Quisling, the leader of the small Norwegian National Socialist (Nasjonal Samling, or National Union) party immediately proclaimed a “national government.” -
QUISILING'S PARTY
Quisling continued to serve the Nazi occupation forces, and he was named “minister president” -
ORIGINS OF THE COLDWAR, RED ARMY
The Soviets had installed left-wing governments in the countries of eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. -
FIRTS WARHEAD
The Soviets exploded their first atomic warhead -
INVASIONS
North Korea invaded U.S. supported South Korea -
Period: to
50s
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EUA VS SOVIET UNION
In the United States, President Eisenhower had to make allowance for the risk of escalation and the hazards of direct nuclear confrontation with the Soviets. -
BYE BYE Stalin
death of Stalin -
The succesors of Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev, the new First Secretary of the CPSU, developed a policy of peaceful coexistence. -
New Soviet Union
The first tangible consequence of the new Soviet policy was the agreement on Austria. -
SOVIET UNION WAR PRISIONERS RETURN
Three million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, with the last prisoner returning from the USSR in 1956 -
COLDWAR PEAK
the Cold War reached its peak in the early 1960s -
Period: to
60s
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Berlin wall
The construction of the Berlin Wall in the summer of 1961 closed the last crossing point between West and East. -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
A confrontation that brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles. -
Red Telephone
The famous ‘red telephone’ was established between Washington and Moscow and the two Great Powers opened discussions on limiting the arms race. -
Vietnam War
The United States was finding it increasingly difficult to finance its global military presence, and its growing involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Period: to
70s
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SALT
Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. -
Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the West German Chancellor “for his policy of reconciliation between old enemy countries”. -
UNITED NATIONS X GERMANY
Both Germanies were admitted as full members of the United Nations -
OIL CRISES
West Germany, unlike Sweden, the Netherlands and Britain, has overcome its oil shortage this winter without rationing or electricity blackouts. -
COLD WAR BREAKDOWN
The Cold War began to break down in the late 1980s during the administration of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. -
Period: to
80s
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Green Party of Germany
The party’s central concerns have been environmental protection through the conservation of scarce resources and the decentralization of power. -
La Belle discotheque bombing
Libyan agents detonated a bomb at the La Belle discotheque, a nightclub frequented by U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany during the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall Fell down
collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 -
Love parade
was an electronic music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany, -
Period: to
90s
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2+4 treatment
Treaty 2 + 4, the international founding act of reunified Germany, was drawn up. The Federal Republic and the GDR participated in it, -
EAST GERMANY REHABILITATION
Germany invested over two trillion marks in the rehabilitation of the former East Germany, helping it to transition to a market economy and cleaning up the environmental degradation -
SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE
The Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, giving rise to 15 newly independent nations, including a Russia with an anticommunist leader.