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Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war and they meant for serval days.
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Germany surrenders to the Russian army
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This was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country.The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc .Consequently the aid was only given to Western European Countries.
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Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.
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JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder
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Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki elected leader of the Polish government - the first eastern bloc country to become a democracy
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The Berlin wall was torn down
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Riots broke out which culminated in the overthrow and execution of the leader Ceauşescu and his wife.
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The Warsaw Pact which allied Communist countries was ended
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The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA
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Russia formally recognised the end of the Soviet Union