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Stalin rules USSR
Stalin runs the USSR -
Berlin falls
The Soviet forces capture Berlin, efectivly ending world war II in eroupe -
Germany surenders
Germany sureneders, ending the secound world war -
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Potsdam conference
This confrence could be considered the begining of the cold war. At this point germany was carved up and the terms decided for the reperations. Stalin also learns of the bomb -
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berlin blockade
The Rusians do not allow for western supplies to get to weast berlin, atempting to starve them out. -
Russians go neuclear
The russians explode theire first atomic wepon -
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Kruschev era
Kruschev atemptes to de stalinise and cool off the cold war -
Warsaw Pact
The communist bloc creates a NATO of there own, by signing the warsaw pact, a mutal defense trety -
Khruschev secret speach
Khrushcev denounces Stalin begening a more liberal time in USSR -
Sputnik
Sputnik orbits the earth, becoming the first man made object to be in space -
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space race
The russians race the americans to be the first nation on the moon. America wins -
U-2
Russia shoots down an American U-2 spy plane and capture a pilot Francis Gary Powers -
First manned orbit
Yuri Gagarin becomes first man to orbit the earth -
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Cuban missle crisis
The russians station nuclear misiles in Cuba, bringing them and the US to the brink of war. -
Ban of atmosphere testing of nuclear bombs
The US and Russia agree to end in air nuclear testing. A hot line was set up for emergancys between US and Russia -
Brezhnev takes power
Brehven leads a coup that throws off Kershvchev and takes power for himself -
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Brezhnev
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Invasion of Checkoslovakia
The warsaw pact, under the Brezhnev Doctorine, invades checkoslovakia to put down a rebelion -
Salt 1
Nixon and Brzhnev sign SALT 1, limiting the amount of ICBM's that both sides could have -
Helsinki conference
The Helsinki accords are signed. It atempted to defuse the arms race in eroupe, legitimized the borders and maintained human rights -
SALT 2
Carter and Brezhev sign SALT2. Said that the US and the USSR would have the exact same number of warheads -
Afganistan invasion
Soviets, under Brehvnev Doctorine, invade Afganistan. They would be trapped in fighting for 10 years -
Olympic boycot
Carter leads a boycot of the moscow olypics in response to invasion of afganistan -
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Gorbachav power
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Chernobyl
The Chernobyl powerplant melts down, the bigest nuclear disaster in history -
Soviet evacuation of Afganistan
The last soviet troopes leave Afganistain, ending the bigest fiasco in soviet military history -
Revolutions of 89
A wave of revolutions take place in the warsaw pact states. After Gorbichav nixs the Brehnev Doctorine, a wave of revolutions take place across the soviet bloc. By the end of the year East Germany, Poland, Romania, and Checkoslovakia remove the comunist parties -
Fall of the wall
The berlin wall, which split the city is torn down after the boarder is oppened. Germany is reunited soon after. -
Failed Coup
A group of the top bass in USSR atempt a coup against Gorbichav and fail -
End of soviet union
The soviet union is officaly disolved, Gorbichav steps down
