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Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war.
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Victory in Europe as Germany surrenders to the Russian army.
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The Potsdam Conference divided Germany and Austria into four zones, as well as Berlin
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The United States dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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The United States dropped second atomic bomb Nagasaki.
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The Japanese surrendered bringing World War Two to an end.
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Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an independent republic.
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Churchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace
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President Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist
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Programme of economic aid offered by the United States which was rejected. The aid was only given to Western European Countries.
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The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany
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Russia’s response to the merger of the French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was to cut all road and rail links to that sector.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was formed .
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War The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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The Korean war began
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Death of Stalin Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev. The communist leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh while the US friendly south was led by Ngo Dinh Diem
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Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev.
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Korean War The Korean war ended.
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The Korean war ended.
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Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.
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The Warsaw Pact was formed
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This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest.
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The British and French were forced to withdraw and a UN peace keeping force was sent to establish order.
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USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space.
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A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro.
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Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.
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A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba.
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JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas.
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Nikita Krushchev removed from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.
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The Paris Peace Accords ended American involvement in Vietnam.
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Govbachov leader of USSR Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union
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End of Warsaw Pact
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The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned.
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Russia formally recognised the end of the Soviet Union