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| Question | Answer |
| Yalta Conference when, who attended and what was discussed? | 1945 The big three attended. Stalin (USSR), Roosevelt (USA), and Churchill (UK) Discussed punishing war criminals from WWII. Stalin agreed to enter the war against Japan once Germany surrendered. Agreed that Germany would be divided into four zones. All agreed to join United Nations. Agreed eastern Europe seen as 'soviet sphere of influence' as 20 million soviets died. |
| Explain the surrender of Germany | 1945, sign an unconditional surrender. This was due to the forcing of the Russian army. |
| Potsdam Conference when, who attended, what was decided? | 1945 Attlee (UK) Truman (USA) Stalin (USSR) Reassurance over four zones. France, Britain, USSR and USA. |
| Bombing of Hiroshima when, why how many people died? | 6 August 1945 Japan refused to surrender. 100,000 deaths. |
| Bombing of Nagasaki when? | 8 August 1945 |
| Iron Curtain Speech when and why? | 1946 Churchill's primary purpose was to argue for an even closer 'special relationship' between the US and UK. |
| Truman Doctrine when, what, why? | 1947 American policy of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey of $400 million because they were threatened by communism. |
| What was Truman's main goal in 1947? | CONTAINMENT |
| Marshall Plan when, what, why? | 1947 America gave over $13 billion to rebuild western European countries after WWII because there was a coal shortage and extreme shortage of all goods. (food and clothing) |
| Cominform What, when, who set it up, why? | Communist Information Bureau, set up by Stalin. His reaction to the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan. 1947 These countries were expected to only trade with each other. |
| When did Communists takeover Czechoslovakia? | 1948 |
| Berlin Blockade what, when why? | 1948-1948 Stalin blocked all routes into West Berlin so they had no food or supplies. Stalin attempted to keep Germany weak. The three other zones in Germany had merged together and got Marshall Aid. The western zone set up new currency. He attempted to weaken all of Berlin because West were prospering so well. |
| Berlin Airlift when, what? | 1948-1949 The west attempt to assist people in Berlin. 1.5 million tons of supplies and a plane landed every three minutes. |
| When, What and Why was NATO formed? | 1949 Military pact of all the Western countries, agreed to help each other at any act of aggression. Planes with nuclear bombs could be held in countries near to USSR which could be used at any given time. |
| USSR tests Atomic Bomb | 1949 |
| When was the Berlin Blockade lifted? | 1949 |
| Korean War when, why, who supported who? | 1950-1953 Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. USA supported South Korea, USSR supported North Korea. |
| USA tests Hydrogen Bomb | 1952 |
| Stalin's Death? | 1953 |
| Korean Ceasefire | July 1953 |
| Geneva Agreement on Indochina | 1954 |
| 1st Taiwan Straits Crisis | 1954 |
| Khrushchev's first visit to China | 1954 |
| USA first Intercontinental Bombers | 1955 |
| Warsaw Pact Established | 1955 |
| Geneva Summit | 1955 |
| Khrushchev's Secret Speech | 1956 |
| USSR first TU20 bear (intercontinental bomber) | 1956 |
| Soviets invade Hungary | 1956 |
| Sputnik | 1957 |
| Eisenhower warned of Missile Gap | 1957 |
| Khrushchev criticises Great Leap Forward | 1958 |
| 2nd Berlin Crisis | 1958 |
| 2nd Taiwan Straits Crisis | 1958 |
| Sino-Soviet agreement on atomic cooperation cancelled | 1959 |
| Cuban Revolution | 1959 |
| U2 Spy Plane incident | 1960 |
| JFK becomes President | 1961 |
| Yuri Gugarin first man in space | 1961 |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | 1961 |
| Vienna Summit | 1961 |
| Berlin Wall erected | 1961 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | October 1962 |
| Hot line telephone link/Nuclear test ban treaty | 1963 |
| China 1st Nuclear Bomb test | 1964 |
| Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia | 1968 |
| Sino-Soviet border clashes - Ussuri River | 1969 |
| Nixon Visits China | 1972 |
| Salt I agreed | 1972 |
| Apollo-Soyuz Link up | 1975 |
| Helsinki Accords | 1975 |
| Salt II signed but not ratified | 1979 |
| Soviets invade Afghanistan | 1979 |
| Martial Law in Poland | 1980 |
| SDI announced | 1983 |
| Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader | 1985 |
| Washington Summit (INF Treaty) | 1987 |
| Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe | 1989 |
| Reunification of Germany | 1990 |
| End of USSR | 25th December 1991 |
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