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1919-1921: War of Intervention against the Soviet-Russia
1921-1933: Era of Non-recognition of the Soviet Union
1939 Aug 24: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
1941 June 22: Operation Barbarossa: Hitler attacks the SU
1941 July: formal alliance between Great Britain and the SU
1941 Aug 14: Atlantic Charter (Aug 9-12: Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Placentia Bay on board of
the HMS Prince of Wales)
1941-1945: the Grand Alliance
1942: the Manhattan Project starts
1943 November: Teheran Conference Operation Overlord accepted
1944 October: Churchill meets Stalin in Moscow (percentage talks)
1945 February 4-11: Conference in Yalta
1945 May 8: V-Day
1945 July-Aug: Potsdam Conference
1945 July 16: first atomic bomb tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico
1945 August: atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945 September 2: Declaration of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
1945-1954: French-Vietnam War
1945 November 15: Three Nation Declaration (Can+US+GBr)
1945-1949: Chinese Civil War
1946 February: Stalins speech on new world order
1946 March: Churchills famous speech in Fulton; George Kennans Long Telegram
1946 December 2: bizone is formed (US + GBr)
1947 February: Great Britain is unable to yield further economic and military aid to Turkey and
Greece
1947 March 12: the Truman Doctrine (Presidential Speech to the Congress)
1947 March 17: Treaty of Dunkirk (Anglo-French military alliance forerunner March 4: BTO)
1947 June 5: George C. Marshalls commencement of economic aid to Europe at the Harvard
University
1947 July 12: Paris Marshall Plan accepted
1947 July: Kennans study in Foreign Affairs is published
1947 Sept 22-27: Andrei A. Zhdanovs Speech at the first session of the newly formed Cominform
1948 January: Ernest Bevin statement on the anti-communist British foreign policy line
1948 April 3: US Congress votes yes to the Foreign Assistance Act, thus legalizes the economic aid to
Europe
1948 June 23 1949 May: Blockade of Berlin
1948 July 11: Vandenberg Resolution
1948 Aug: Robertson Plan to unite Germany: unsuccessful; Hiss vs. Chambers Case
1949 April 4: NATO is formed
1949 April 8: Washington Treaty trizone (US+GBr+F)
1949 May 1: first (successful) Soviet atomic bomb test
1949 May 23: FRG is formed
1949 Aug: China White Paper
1949 Oct 7: GDR is established
1949 OctoberNovember: Communist victory in Chinese Civil War; Maos visit to Moscow
1950-1953: the Korean War
1950 January: Soviet-Chinese Alliance
1950 January 12: Dean Achesons Speech: American defence perimeter did not include Taiwan and
South Korea
1950 April: Stalin sanctifies North Korean attack on the South without Soviet intervention; NSC-68
Document
1950 June 25: North Korean invasion
1950 June 25 September 15: glorious North Korean campaign
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1970-1972: Vietnamization
1972: new Kissinger policy ping pong diplomacy
1972: treaties between Poland, West Germany, East Germany and the Soviet Union
1972 February: Shanghai Declaration
1972 April 20-23: KissingerBrezhnev Summit
1972 May 26: SALT I. (aka. ABM Treaty)
1972 August 12: West German Soviet Treaty
1972 October: Kissinger and Le Duc Tho negotiate truce
1972 December 18-29: most intensive US bombings on North Vietnam
1973 January 1: cease-fire; US leaves Vietnam territory Paris Conference
1973: Watergate Case waves along American political life
1973 February 8 August: US bombs Cambodia to hinder Khmer Rouge takeover
1973: War Power Act
1973-1975: North-South Vietnam War rages on
1974: Vladivostok Summit: Ford and Brezhnev accepts SALT II preconditions
1974 August 9: Nixon resigns after the Watergate fiasco
1975 January: Helsinki Conference
1975 April 30: Saigon falls, communists are victorious
1975: Pacific Doctrine by President Gerard Ford
1978: VietnameseChinese War
1978 June 18: SALT II. (accepted but never in effect)
1979-1982 (1988): War in Afghanistan
1982: Presidential Directive59 (Carter)
1983: SDI (Star Wars) Program Reagan and Ede Teller
1985: Geneva Meeting (GorbachevReagan)
1987: Washington Summit
1989 November: the Berlin Wall is demolished by Berliners
1989-1991: collapse of communism in East Central Europe
1990-1991: Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War)
1991: START
1992: Bush announces: the Cold War is over; Maastricht Treaty is accepted the formation of the EU
(formally from January 1, 1993)
2001 September 11: World Trade Center is destroyed in New York; Bush jr. commences the war
against terrorism
2003-2010: War in Iraq
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NAMES
Acheson, Dean
Adenauer, Konrad
Attlee, Clement
Bao Dai
Baruch, Bernard
Batista, Fulgencio
Beria, Lavrentiy Pavlovich
Berlin Crisis
Berlin Wall
Bevin, Ernest
bikini
Blair, Tony
Bohr, Niels
Bradley, Gen. Omar
Brandt, Willy
Brezhnev, Leonid
Byrnes, James F.
Bush, George Walker (jr.)
Bush, George Herbert Walker
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
Chambers, Whittaker
Chiang Kai-sek
Cheney, Dick
Chomsky, Noam
Chou En Lai
Churchill, Winston Spencer
Clifford, Clark
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hilary Rodham
De Gaulle, Charles
Dobrynin, Anatoli
Dr. Strangelove
Dulles, John Foster
Eden, Sir Anthony
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (aka. Ike)
Fermi, Enrico
Ford, Gerard
Fuchs, Klaus
Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon)
Fulbright, J. William
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Graham, Billy
Gurion, Ben
Hallstein, Walter
Harriman, Averell
Hiss, Alger
Hitler, Adolf
Ho Chi Minh
Hoover, J. Edgar
Huntington, Samuel T.
I Szungman (Li Szin Man)
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Jackson, Henry
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Kaufman, Judge Irwing
Kennan, George F.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, Robert Fitzgerald
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kim Il-sung (Kim Ir Szen)
Kissinger, Henry
Kosigin, Aleksei
Kurchatov, Igor
Le Duc Tho
Lippmann, Walter
Luther King, Martin
MacArthur, Douglas
MacKenzie, King
MacMillan, Harold
Mao Zedong (aka. Mao Tse Tung)
Marshall, George C.
McCarthy, Joseph R.
McDonald, Joe
McNamara, Robert
Mikoian, Anastas
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Monroe, James
Montgomery, Bernard
Nasser, Col. Gamal Abdel
Nixon, Richard M.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Obama, Barack
Oppenheimer, Robert
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Pol Pot
Powell, Colin
Reagan, Ronald
Rice, Condoleezza
Ridgeway, Matthew B.
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Theodor
Rosenberg, Ethel
Rosenberg, Julius
Rostow, Walt W.
Ruby, Jack
Rusk, Dean
Stalin, Josip (Dzhugashvili)
Sudoplatov, Pavel
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Truman, Harry S.
Ulbricht, Walter
Vandenberg, Arthur
Vo Nguyen Giap
Wallace, Henry A.
Wilson, Woodrow
Wright Mills, C.
Zhdanov, Andrei Alexandrovich
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globalisation
global village
Grand Alliance
Great Society
green berets
G-20
Hallstein Doctrine
Helsinki Conference
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh Path
hot line
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
hybridity
I-Feel-Like-Im-Fixin-to-Die-Rag
ICBM
IMF
imperialism (vs. colonialism)
Interim Agreement
iron curtain
isolationism
Jessup-Malik Agreement
Joint Chiefs of Staff
lend-lease program
Long Telegram
Khmer Rouge
Kremlin
Kuomintang
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Maastricht Treaty
MAD
mandate territory
market democracy
Marshall Plan
Massive Retaliation
military-economic complex
MIRV
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
monetary reform
Monroe Doctrine
MRBM
MyLai incident
National Liberation Front
nationalism
NATO
neoliberalism
neoconservatism
Non-proliferation Treaty
NSC-68
nuclear club
OEEC (later OECD)
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Overlord
Ostpolitik
Pacific Doctrine
perestroika
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