A-Level History 9389: The Cold War
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| True Democracy | Lenin's interpretation; effectively Communist Party Dictatorship |
| Bourgeois Democracy | Western Liberal democracy (as described by Lenin) |
| Proletariat | Working class people [in relation to the theory of Marx] |
| COMINTERN | Communist International [1919-1943] advocated world communism; coordinated international communist parties. |
| Soviet | [Russian] workers council |
| Bolshevik | Russian Political Party: Seized power in the Russian revolution 1917 |
| 23rd August 1939 | Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [Nazi-Soviet pact] non-aggressive alliance |
| 22nd June 1941 | Operation Barbarossa: Nazi invasion of Soviet Union |
| 17th September 1939 | Soviet invasion of Poland |
| Curzon line | Alleged Russian 'ethnic frontier' in Eastern Europe |
| November 1943 | Tehran Conference: Iran |
| February 1945 | Yalta Conference: Crimea [USSR] |
| July 1945 | Potsdam Conference: Germany |
| August 1941 | Britain and USA agree to the Atlantic Charter |
| Atlantic Charter | Defined Allies post war goals. Self determination for nations. Economic & Social cooperation between nations. |
| 2nd February 1943 | Germany loses the battle of Stalingrad. Turning point. Germany on the back foot. |
| May 1945 | VE day (Victory in Europe): Nazi Germany defeated. |
| 16th July 1945 | USA conducts first successful test of a nuclear device (the gadget) in the USA |
| 8th August 1945 | Stalin declares war on Imperial Japan |
| 6th - 9th August 1945 | USA drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 12th April 1945 | FDR [USA] Dies. Replaced by H. S. Truman. |
| 5th July 1945 | Churchill [UK] loses election. Replaced by Attlee |