History Dates 1945 - 1962
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1945
FEBRUARY:
- Yalta Conference
MAY:
- World War II ends
JULY:
- Potsdam Conference
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1946
MARCH:
- Kennan's Long Telegram
- Iran Crisis
- Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' Speech
APRIL:
- Council of Foreign Ministers
JULY:
- Paris Peace Conference
- Clifford-Elsey Report
SEPTEMBER:
- Stuttgart Speech
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1947
JANUARY:
- Bizonia is created
FEBRUARY:
- Greek/Turkish Crisis
JUNE:
- Truman Doctrine is issued
- Marshall Plan is issued
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1948
FEBRUARY:
- Czechoslovakia is the last Eastern European state to 'accept' communism
JUNE:
- Berlin Blockade begins
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1949
APRIL:
- NATO is set up
MAY:
- Berlin Blockade is lifted
AUGUST:
- Soviets explode their first atomic bomb
SEPTEMBER:
- West Germany is established
OCTOBER:
- East Germany is established
- Chinese Communist Party win
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1950
JANUARY:
- Truman announces his plans to develop the hydrogen bomb
JUNE:
- Korean War begins
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1953
JANUARY:
- Truman is replaced by Eisenhower
MARCH:
- Stalin dies and is replaced by Khrushchev (beginning of the 'Thaw' or 'Peaceful Coexistence)
JULY:
- Korean War ends
AUGUST:
- USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb
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1955
MAY:
- Germany joins NATO despite France's objections
- The Warsaw Pact is signed between the USSR, Hungary, Poland, Albania, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia
- Austrian State Treaty is signed
JULY:
- Geneva Summit is held - an opportunity to reduce tension in the Arms Race
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1956
JUNE:
- Polish Crisis/Riots
OCTOBER:
- Hungarian Riots are brutally oppressed by the USSR
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1958
NOVEMBER:
- Berlin Crisis: Khrushchev demands that the allies leave Berlin or the USSR would sign a Treaty with the GDR (East Germany) giving it control over access routes to West Berlin. He withdrew this ultimatum after a visit to America in September 1959.
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1960
MAY:
- The Paris Summit
- USA U-2 spy plane is shot down by the USSR
JUNE:
- Relations between the USSR and China begin to collapse
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1961
JANUARY:
- Eisenhower is replaced by John F. Kennedy
JUNE:
- JFK and Khrushchev meet in Vienna and Khrushchev demands that Germany should be demilitarised
AUGUST:
- The Berlin Wall construction begins
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1962
OCTOBER:
- Cuban Missile Crisis
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