Tag: USSR

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25th May 1961: US President John F. Kennedy announces his plans for a manned moon landing before the end of the decade

• 25th May 2023
• Tagged as: America, Cold War, Kennedy, Moon, NASA, Space, Space Race, United States, USA, USSR

Kennedy’s $24 billion of investment did work, and Apollo 11 achieved Kennedy’s goal by landing on the moon on 20 July 1969.

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14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

• 14th May 2023
• Tagged as: Cold War, Comecon, Communism, NATO, Poland, Socialist, USSR, Warsaw, Warsaw Pact, West Germany

The USSR and seven other European countries signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance better known as the Warsaw Pact.

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12th May 1949: The Soviet Union ends its blockade of West Berlin

• 12th May 2023
• Tagged as: Airlift, America, Berlin Airlift, Berlin Blockade, Cold War, East Germany, Germany, Soviet Union, United States, USA, USSR, West Berlin, West Germany

Instigated on 24 June the previous year, the Soviet blockade prevented all rail, road, and water transport between Berlin and the West of the Germany.

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2nd May 1945: The Battle of Berlin ends with the German surrender to the USSR

• 2nd May 2023
• Tagged as: Berlin, Communism, Fascism, Germany, Hitler, Nazi, Second World War, Soviet Union, Stalin, USSR

The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.

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5th April 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying

• 5th April 2023
• Tagged as: America, Communism, Espionage, Execution, Spy, USA, USSR

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the United States for conspiracy to commit espionage.

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21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

• 21st March 2023
• Tagged as: Communism, Economics, Lenin, New Economic Policy, Russian Civil War, Soviet Union, USSR

Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.

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26th February 1935: Hitler formally establishes the Luftwaffe in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles

• 26th February 2023
• Tagged as: Aircraft, Germany, Goering, Hitler, Luftwaffe, Nazi, Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War, Treaty of Versailles, USSR

The German Empire established its first air force, the Fliegertruppe, in 1910 which saw extensive action in the First World War.

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4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

• 4th February 2023
• Tagged as: America, Britain, Churchill, Crimea, Germany, Nazism, Roosevelt, Second World War, Stalin, United States, USA, USSR, Yalta, Yalta Conference

The conference saw Allied leaders United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war Europe.

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3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA

• 3rd February 2023
• Tagged as: Aircraft, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Nuclear, USA, USSR

Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a day.

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27th January 1945: Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp

• 27th January 2023
• Tagged as: Anti-Semitism, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, Germany, Holocaust, Nazi, Nazism, Poland, Racism, Red Army, Second World War, USSR

The advancing Soviet troops met some resistance from remaining Nazi troops in the Polish city of Oświęcim, but by 3pm on 27 January 1945 they had captured the Main Camp and Auschwitz II-Birkenau.