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Triggers Great Depression across the world, caused by over-speculation in stock market with borrowed money.
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Axis states [Italy, Germany, Japan] sign Tripartite Pact, a ten-year military alliance
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Atomic bomb
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Winston Churchill arrived at the 'percentages agreement' with Stalin to establish the predominance Britain and the USSR would each have in Eastern European states
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[ most Eastern European states ]
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Regime is heavily implemented when war ends
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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met for the Yalta Conference in the Crimean city of Yalta
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Roosevelt wrote to Stalin outlining his concerns about Stalin's interpretation of the Yalta declaration on Poland
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Nuclear monopoly gained, tension increases
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The Potsdam Conference took place, characterised by Truman's abrasive diplomacy and Stalin's determination not to be intimidated by the USA’s nuclear monopoly
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Attlee replaces him as Prime Minister, takes position in Potsdam Conference
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Atomic bomb
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Unconditional surrender
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The German Social Democrats (SPD) and the Communists (KPD) were forcibly merged by the Soviet Military Administration of Germany (SMAD)
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George Kennan [US ambassador in USSR] sent his lengthy despatch of containment to the US State Department in Washington.
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Delivered by Winston Churchill, direct attack on Soviet policies
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[Relatively free]
Communist Party wins 38% of the vote -
Created by Britain's military governor in Germany
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The Soviet Ambassador in Washington, Nikolai Novikov, concluded that US foreign policy was based on economic imperialism
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