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01 Mar |
1950: Communist spy jailed for 14 years |
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09 Feb |
1950: McCarthy launches anti-red crusade |
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18 May |
1950: US and Europe agree Nato aims |
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25 Jun |
1950: UN condemns North Korean invasion |
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15 Jan |
1953: East German purge begins |
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30 Mar |
1951: Rosenbergs guilty of espionage |
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16 Mar |
1953: Marshal Tito makes historic visit to London |
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18 Feb |
1954: McCarthy hunts 'army Communists' |
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01 Mar |
1954: US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini |
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02 Dec |
1954: US Senate condemns McCarthy |
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02 Dec |
1954: US pledges to defend Nationalist China |
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09 May |
1955: West Germany accepted into Nato |
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14 May |
1955: Communist states sign Warsaw Pact |
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25 Feb |
1956: Khrushchev lashes out at Stalin |
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23 Oct |
1956: Hungarians rise up against Soviet rule |
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04 Nov |
1956: Soviet troops overrun Hungary |
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15 May |
1957: Britain drops its first H-bomb |
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04 Oct |
1957: Sputnik satellite blasts into space |
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07 Aug |
1958: Arthur Miller cleared of contempt |
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23 Feb |
1959: Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace |
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24 Jul |
1959: Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words |
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26 Aug |
1959: US to 'stand by' West Germans |
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31 Aug |
1959: Anglo-US TV debate makes history |
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17 May |
1960: East-West summit in tatters after spy plane row |
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19 Aug |
1960: Moscow jails American U-2 spy pilot |
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29 Sep |
1960: Khrushchev anger erupts at UN |
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27 Dec |
1960: France explodes third atomic bomb |
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13 Aug |
1961: Berliners wake to divided city |
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30 Oct |
1961: World condemns Russia's nuclear test |
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10 Feb |
1962: Russia frees US spy plane pilot |
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28 Oct |
1962: World relief as Cuban missile crisis ends |
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21 Dec |
1962: America to sell Polaris to Britain |
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11 May |
1963: Moscow jails British 'spy' |
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26 Jun |
1963: Kennedy: 'Ich bin ein Berliner' |
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14 May |
1964: Nasser and Khrushchev divert the Nile |
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15 Oct |
1964: Khrushchev 'retires' as head of USSR |
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09 Mar |
1967: Stalin's daughter defects to the West |
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21 Aug |
1968: Russia brings winter to 'Prague Spring' |
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24 Jul |
1969: Briton freed from Soviet prison |
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19 Mar |
1970: Willi and Willy meet in East Germany |
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30 Sep |
1971: Foreign Office names Soviet superspy |
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22 May |
1972: President Nixon arrives in Moscow |
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24 Jun |
1974: Labour rift over nuclear test |
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18 Jun |
1979: Leaders agree arms reduction treaty |
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22 Jan |
1980: Soviet dissident Sakharov banished |
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10 Nov |
1982: Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow |
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23 Mar |
1983: Reagan launches Cold War into space |
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01 Sep |
1983: Korean airliner 'shot down' |
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08 May |
1984: Moscow pulls out of US Olympics |
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16 Dec |
1984: Gorbachev visit to Britain a 'success' |
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23 Aug |
1985: West German spy chief defects to East |
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28 Aug |
1985: East Germans charged with espionage |
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18 Sep |
1987: Superpower treaty to scrap warheads |
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23 Sep |
1987: Ban lifted on MI5 man's memoirs |
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13 Sep |
1988: Cubans blame shooting on 'CIA plot' |
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16 Jun |
1989: Hungary reburies fallen hero Imre Nagy |
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07 Nov |
1989: Protests force out East German rulers |
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09 Nov |
1989: Berliners celebrate the fall of the Wall |
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03 Dec |
1989: Malta summit ends Cold War |
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22 Dec |
1989: Brandenburg Gate re-opens |
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31 Jul |
1991: Superpowers to cut nuclear warheads |
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25 Aug |
1997: East German leader guilty of Berlin Wall deaths |
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