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Cold War/Mao's China/Castro's Cuba
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05/09/2005
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Yalta Conference
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February 1945
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FDR's Death
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April 12, 1945
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End of WWII in Europe
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May 1945
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Potsdam Conference
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July-August 1945
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End of WWII in Japan

Atomic Bomb dropped
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August 6, 1945
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Stalin's Election Speech
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February 9, 1946
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Kennan's Long Telegram
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February 22, 1946
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Churchhill's Iron Curtain Speech
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March 5, 1946
Term
The Truman Doctrine
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March 12, 1947
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The Marshall Plan
 Definition
June 5, 1947
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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
 Definition
June 1948-May 1949
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Creation of NATO
 Definition
April 4, 1949
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Soviet Union develops the Atomic Bomb
 Definition
August 29, 1949
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Creation of PRC
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October 1, 1949
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Acheson's Defense Perimeter Speech
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January 12, 1950
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Soviets support North Korea
 Definition
January 30, 1950
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2nd Treaty of Friendship and Alliance
CCP and USSR
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February 14, 1950
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1st Treaty of Friendship and Alliance
GMD and USSR
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August 14, 1945
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North Korea invades South Korea
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June 25, 1950
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Inchon Landing
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September 15, 1950
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Chinese intervention in Korea
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October 19, 1950
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US develops thermonuclear weapons
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November 1, 1952
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1st 5-Year Plan launched
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January 1953
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Stalin dies
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March 5, 1953
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East German uprising
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June 1953
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Korean War ends
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July 1953
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Moncada at Santiago de Cuba
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July 26, 1953
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Soviets develop thermonuclear weapons
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August 8, 1953
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Shelling of Quemoy and Matsu
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1954-1955
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Khrushchev gives China nuclear weapons
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April 27, 1955
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West Germany joins NATO
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May 1955
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Creation of Warsaw Pact
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May 1955
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Khrushchev's Destalinzation Speech
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February 25, 1956
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Mao's Hundred Flowers Speech
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May 26, 1956
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Hundred Flowers Movement
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1956-1957
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8th Party Congress and De-Maoism
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September 1956
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Castro's Guerrila War in the Sierra Maestra
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December 1956-January 1959
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Mao's Correct Handlings of Contradictions Among the People Speech
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February 27, 1957
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Launch of Anti-Rightest Campaign

Publication of Correct Handlings Speech
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June 19, 1957
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Launch of Sputnik
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October 4, 1957
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Mao visits the USSR

Launch of the Great Leap
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November 1957
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Nanning Conference
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January 1958
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Khrushchev comes to China and meets Mao
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July 31, 1958
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2nd Shelling of Quemoy and Matsu
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August 23, 1958
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Mao goes on tour
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September 1958
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Lushan Conference
Peng purged
Great Leap relaunched
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July 1959
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Batista overthrown
Castro gains power
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January 1959
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Sino-Soviet split complete
Soviet advisers removed from China
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June 1960
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Le Coubre
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March 4, 1960
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Bay of Pigs
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April 1961
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Berlin Wall erected
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August 13, 1961
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Novocherkassak
Miner's uprising
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May 1962
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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October 1962
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Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
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August 1968
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