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PRISCILLA ROBERTS
For my parents
The two bravest people I know
First published in 2000 by Sutton Publishing
The History Press
The Mill, Brimscombe Port
Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2QG
www.thehistorypress.co.uk
This ebook edition first published in 2013
All rights reserved
Priscilla Roberts, 2000, 2013
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EPUB ISBN 978 0 7524 9478 4
Original typesetting by The History Press
Cover picture: Military Parade on Red Square, Moscow, 1 May 1968 (N. Sitnikov/TASS, courtesy Jonathan Falconer)
November 1917 | Successful Bolshevik revolution in Tsarist Russia |
July 1918 | Allied intervention in Russia, in which United States participates |
November 1918 | First World War ends in armistice |
April 1920 | United States withdraws last troops from Russia |
April 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes US president |
November 1933 | United States recognizes Soviet Union |
August 1939 | NaziSoviet Non-Aggression Pact |
September 1939 | Germany and Soviet Union invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany |
May 1940 | Katyn massacre |
June 1941 | Germany invades Soviet Union |
August 1941 | Atlantic Charter |
December 1941 | Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and Germany and Japan declare war on United States |
November 1943 | Teheran conference |
June 1944 | D-Day: AngloAmerican invasion of Europe |
AugustOctober 1944 | Warsaw uprising |
February 1945 | Yalta conference |
April 1945 | Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt; successor as US president Harry S. Truman |
May 1945 | Surrender of Germany |
June 1945 | San Francisco conference approves United Nations Charter |
JulyAugust 1945 | Potsdam conference |
August 1945 | Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders; Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnamese independence |
February 1946 | George F. Kennan sends Long Telegram |
March 1946 | Churchills Iron Curtain speech United States criticizes Soviet behaviour towards Iran and Turkey; Soviets withdraw forces from Iran |
March 1947 | Truman Doctrine speech Treaty of Dunkirk between Britain and France |
June 1947 | Announcement of Marshall Plan |
July 1947 | Kennan article, Sources of Soviet Conduct |
September 1947 | Rio Treaty to defend Western Hemisphere |
October 1947 | Cominform established |
February 1948 | Communist coup in Czechoslovakia |
March 1948 | Brussels security pact of five West European powers |
April 1948 | Organization of American States established |
May 1948 | Creation of Israel; immediately recognized by Soviet Union and United States |
June 1948 | Berlin blockade begins |
April 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty signed |
May 1949 | Berlin blockade ends |
August 1949 | Soviet Union tests atomic bomb |
September 1949 | Federal Republic of Germany established |
October 1949 | Chinese Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, proclaims Peoples Republic of China on Chinese mainland |
January 1950 | SinoSoviet Treaty of Alliance and Friendship Senator Joseph R. McCarthy makes Wheeling, Virginia, speech, beginning of McCarthyism |
April 1950 | NSC 68 recommends massive American rearmament |
June 1950 | North Korea invades South Korea; United States successfully urges United Nations intervention |
November 1950 | Chinese intervention in Korean War |
April 1951 | Formation of European Coal and Steel Community |
September 1951 | Signature of JapaneseAmerican peace treaty and security treaty and ANZUS Pact |
January 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes US president |
March 1953 | Death of Stalin |
June 1953 | Panmunjom armistice agreement effectively ends Korean war; United States concludes security treaty with South Korea Workers uprising in East Berlin crushed with Soviet assistance |
August 1953 | CIA-backed coup overthrows Mohammed Mossadeqs government in Iran and restores Shah Reza Mohammed Pahlavi II to power |
September 1953 | Nikita Khrushchev becomes general secretary of Soviet Communist Party |
December 1953 | Eisenhowers Atoms for Peace proposal |
March 1954 | Successful United States testing of hydrogen bomb |
May 1954 | Vietminh defeat French army at Dienbienphu; French decide to leave Indochina |
June 1954 | Successful CIA-backed coup against Guatemalan government |
July 1954 |
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