COLD WAR

By vaneezamk

  • The Bolshevek Revolution in Russia

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    Russian Civil War

  • The Tehran Conference

  • Normandy landings

  • The Yalta Conference

  • President Roosevelt died

  • Winston Churchill’s conservative party lost

  • The Emergence of Superpowers

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    Stalin and Mao

  • Germany surrendered

    unconditionally

  • the US successfully tested its first atomic bomb

  • US policy of containment in Europe had been successful

  • EAST WEST RELATIONS

    Agreement over Austria
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    SINO – AMERICAN RELATIONS: KOREAN WAR

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    USSR, THE PRC, and the Korean War

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected US President

  • Stalin dies

  • Americans include Taiwan in a part of their containment perimeter

  • US STATE DEPARTMENT BULLETIN

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    TAIWAN

  • GENEVA SUMMIT

  • Bandung Conference

  • Diem, with US support, refuses to hold elections

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    Mao, Khrushchev and the “split”

  • Conference of Communist Parties

  • Soviets launched the world’s first artificial Satellite – Sputnik

  • Eisenhower was confident about US nuclear superiority

  • Khrushchev visits Beijing

  • Mao gears up to take Taiwan

  • Soviets denounce GLF

  • SINO- AMERICAN RELATIONS

  • Kennedy is elected

  • laws passed banning the celebration of Buddha’s birthday

  • Kennedy is assassinated and Lyndon Johnson becomes President

  • USA POLICY TOWARDS CHINA

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    Sino Soviet relations and the Cultural Revolution

  • Johnson “light at the end of the tunnel”

  • Nixon is elected

  • Sino-Soviet Border War

  • SINO-AMERICAN DÉTENTE

  • NIXON VISITS CHINA

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    PARIS PEACE TALKS

  • Peace settlement signed

  • Vietnam signed a military alliance with USSR and invades Cambodia

  • China invades Vietnam

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    Sino-Soviet Rapprochement

  • GENEVA SUMMIT

  • Gorbachev gets a Nobel Peace prize