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Russo-Japanese War begins
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Bloody Sunday
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Treaty of Portsmouth ends Russo-Japanese War
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Moscow Uprising begins
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Meeting of the First Duma
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Russian Empire enters World War I
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Bolshevik Revolution
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed
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Foundation of the CCP
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Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union
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Vladimir Lenin dies
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Nicaraguan Civil War begins. Sandino rises to prominence amongst the Liberal Army
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Peace of Tipitapa ends Nicaraguan Civil War. Enhances Sandino's dissatisfaction
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Nanchang Uprising. Start of the intermittent Chinese Civil War
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First Five Year Plan implemented by Stalin
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President of USA
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Manchukuo puppet state established
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United States extends diplomatic recognition of the USSR
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Cordell Hull selected as Secretary of State
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The Long March begins
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USSR joins the League of Nations
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Zunyi Conference. Mao becomes Chairman of the Politburo of the CCP, and de facto leader of the party and the Chinese Red Army
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Molotov-Ribbentrop pact signed
Eastern Europe divided up between USSR and Nazi Germany in secret protocol -
Germany invades Poland
Penetrate up to line agreed in Molotov-Ribbentrop secret protocol -
Bretton Woods Conference commences
Establishment of the IMF -
Warsaw Uprising
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Tolstoy/Moscow Conference. Percentages Agreement
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Stalin recognises the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland
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Postdam Agreement
Provisions for future meeting of newly formed Council of Foreign Ministers included -
Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. London
Dispute between US and USSR on Japanese occupation. -
Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. Moscow
Preparation of peace treaties with many Axis powers. Far Eastern Commission formed. Allied Council for Japan formed. Atomic energy commission for UN. -
Unconditional German surrender ends war in Europe
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pacific war ends.
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Yalta Conference
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Josip Broz Tito becomes Prime Minister of the provisional government of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
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Death of President Roosevelt. Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes president.
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James Byrnes appointed Secretary of State
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Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister
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Alcide De Gasperi becomes Italian Prime Minister
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Council of Foreign Ministers. Paris
France joined earlier -
CoFM meeting. New York
Outstanding issue of Free Territory of Trieste resolved -
Formation of Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
Merger between Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) -
Socialist Unity Party wins 1946 German elections under supervision of Soviet army.
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Soviet troops refuse to withdraw from Iran
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Churchill delivers his 'Sinews of Peace' or 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton, Missouri
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Outbreak of the Greek Civil War
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Soviet troops withdraw from Iran
actual date not found, but sources typically agree on late April to Early May -
Bikini Atoll detonations
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Soviet Union demands revision of Montreux Convention
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Mr X article appears in Foreign Affairs
George Kennan articulates policy of 'Containment' -
CoFM Moscow
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CoFM London
Failed to agree peace treaty for Germany and Austria -
General George Marshall appointed Secretary of State
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Truman Doctrine articulated
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Foundation of the CIA
National Security Act of 1947 -
National Security Act of 1947 takes effect
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Cominform established
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CoFM Paris
Failed to agree procedure for former Italian colonies -
Soviets withdraw from the Allied Control Council
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Czechoslovakia forced to reject Marshall Plan
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Jan Masaryk dies
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Marshall Plan enacted
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Democrazia Cristiana wins Italian general elections.
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Deutsche Mark introduction
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Berlin Blockade begins
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Berlin airlift begins with Operation Vittles
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Culmination of Tito-Soviet Split. Expulsion of Yugoslavia from Cominform.
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Truman reelected US president.
Beat Thomas Dewey (Rep.) and Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat) -
West Berlin elections. Ernst Reuter becomes mayor.
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CoFM Paris
End Soviet Blockade on Berlin Failed to agree on German Reunification -
Comecon established
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Dean Acheson appointed Secretary of State by Truman
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NATO forms
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Berlin Blockade lifted
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Konrad Adenauer elected German Chancellor
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First Soviet Atomic bomb test
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People's Republic of China declared
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NSC-49 presented to Truman
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German Democratic Republic Constitution Adopted. Formation of the GDR. Soviets turn control over East Germany to Socialist Unity Party
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Senator Joseph McCarthy initiates a series of accusations against 'Communist in Government'
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NSC-68 presented to Truman
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KPA forces cross the 38th parallel. Outbreak of Korean War
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Walter Ulbricht confirmed as First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
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Stalin note
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Egyptian Coup. Gamel Abdel Nasser becomes president
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Dwight D. Eisenhower elected US president
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Josip Broz Tito becomes president of Yugoslavia
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John Foster Dulles appointed Secretary of State by Eisenhower
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Stalin dies
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Georgy Malenkov succeeds Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union
Also listed first amongst list of secretaries of the Secretariat -
Uprising in East Germany begins
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Cuban Revolution begins
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Korean Armistice Agreement ends Korean War
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Iranian Coup
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Central Committee elects Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the CPSU
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Lavrentiy Beria executed
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CoFM Berlin
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Guatemalan Coup
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Geneva Conference (Indochina)
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Bandung Conference
Bandung, Indonesia -
CoFM Geneva Summit
Failed to agree on German reunification or Euro security and disarmament. -
Hallstein Doctrine formed
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Formation of the Baghdad Pact
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Malenkov forced to resign
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Anthony Eden elected British Prime Minister
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West Germany joins NATO
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Formation of the Warsaw Pact
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Ngô Đình Diệm becomes First President of the Republic of Vietnam
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Outbreak of Vietnam War
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Sino-Soviet Split begins
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20 Party Congress. Khrushchev delivers his 'Secret Speech' 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences'
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Hungarian Revolution
Popular revolt against Soviet policies of Hungarian People's Republic. Budapest -
Suez Crisis begins
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Eisenhower reelected US president
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Sputnik launch inaugurates Space Race
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Khrushchev issues Berlin Ultimatum
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Great Leap Forward begins
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Formation of the United Arab Republic
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On Peaceful Coexistence. Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev publishes article in Foreign Affairs. Advocates some form of peaceful competition and coexistence between Capitalist and Communist states. Upholds Socialism and Soviet Union as peaceful systems. -
CoFM Geneva
Western powers wanted comprehensive peace treaty with unified Germany -
Fidel Castro's victory march into Havana
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Fidel Castro sworn in as Cuban Prime Minister
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Khrushchev visits the United States. The first Soviet leader to do so.
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U-2 Incident
Gary Powers' plane shot down in the Soviet Union -
Paris Four Power Summit
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John F. Kennedy elected US President
Beats Richard Nixon (Rep.) -
Khrushchev's '6th of January' speech leads Kennedy Administration to believe in a hardening of Soviet attitudes towards the West
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JFK Inaugural Address espouses a conciliatory attitude to the Soviet Union
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Dean Rusk appointed Secretary of State by Kennedy
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JFK State of the Union Address
Takes a harder line towards the Soviet Union following Kennedy's misinterpretation of Khrushchev's 6th January Speech -
Yuri Gagarin successfully orbits the earth
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Vienna Summit
Khrushchev reissues ultimatum asking for separate peace treaty with East Germany. -
Construction of Berlin Wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis begins
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Ngô Đình Diệm assassinated
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President Kennedy assassinated. Lyndon B Johnson assumes presidency
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Gulf of Tonkin resolution
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Politburo votes Khrushchev out of power. Leonid Brezhnev chosen General Secretary of the CPSU
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Cultural Revolution begins
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Six Day War breaks out
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Prague Spring
Period of political liberalisation and mass protest by Czechoslovaks against Communist State -
Richard Nixon elected president of the USA
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Henry Kissinger appointed National Security Advisor
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Willy Brandt elected Chancellor of Germany
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Treaty of Moscow
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Salvador Allende becomes president of Chile
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Treaty of Warsaw
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Eric Honecker replaces Walter Ulbricht as General Secretary of the GDR
Ulbricht was removed by Brezhnev -
Four Power Agreement on Berlin
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Basic Treaty
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Nixon's visit to China
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Moscow Summit
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Transit Treaty
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Watergate scandal begins
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Both the GDR and FDR are admitted to the UN
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Yom Kippur War
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Reunification clause removed from East German constitution
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President Nixon resigns from office. Gerald Ford assumes presidency
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Helsinki Accords
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Angolan Civil War begins
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Mao dies
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Jimmy Carter elected US president
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Deng Xiaoping becomes paramount leader of China
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'April Revolution'. War in Afghanistan begins.
Military coup in Kabul. Sectarian leftists take power. Proclaim April Revolution. Neither Soviet leadership nor KGB had any intimation of beginning. -
Brezhnev and Nur Muhammad Taraki sign 20-year 'treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation'
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Herat uprising
Islamist forces rebel against secular state during Afghan war -
Islamic Republic of Iran declared
Culmination of Iranian Revolution of 1978 -
Soviet intervention in Afghanistan begins
Response to several requests by Taraki, then Amin, for Soviet assistance against mujahideen insurgence. -
Solidarność founded
Lenin Shipyard. Gdańsk. Lech Wałęsa -
Reagan elected President of the USA
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General Jaruzelski imposes Martial Law in Poland (Stan wojenny w Polsce)
A response to Solidarność protest. -
Leonid Brezhnev dies
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Yuri Andropov elected General Secretary of the CPSU
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Able Archer exercises
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Reagan gives 'Evil Empire' speech
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Korean Airlines Flight 007 shot down.
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Yuri Andropov dies
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Konstantin Chernenko elected General Secretary of the CPSU
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Konstantin Chernenko dies
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Mikhail Gorbachev appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Union
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Operation Pimlico successfully executed
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Geneva Summit
Reagan and Gorbachev discuss Nuclear arms limitation, easing emigration, and SDI -
Chernobyl disaster
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
