Exercise 12. Read the text “The Cold War– Timeline” and explain the words in bold. Then, make up dialogues, using the information below.

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1940s 1945: February 4-11- Yalta Conference Cold War Begins August 6 - United States first used atomic bomb in war August 8 - Russia enters war against Japan August 14 - Japanese surrender End of World War II
	1946: March - Winston Churchill delivers"Iron Curtain" Speech 1947: March - Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War June - Marshall Plan is announced 1948: February - Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia June 24 - Berlin Blockade begins 1949: July - NATO ratified May 12 - Berlin Blockade ends September - Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China September - Soviets explode first atomic bomb 1950s 1950: February - Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt June - Korean War begins 1951: January 12 - Federal Civil Defense Administration established
1953: June 19 - Rosenberg executions July - Korean War ends 1954: March - KGB established CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala July - Vietnam split at 17th parallel 1955: May-Warsaw Pact formed 1956: October - November - Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back 1957: October 4 - Sputnik launched into orbit
	1958: November - Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin 1959: January - Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro 1960s 1960: May - Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory November - John F. Kennedy elected President 1961: July - Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military August 13 - Berlin border closed August 17 - Construction of Berlin Wall begins
1962: - U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased October - Cuban Missile Crisis 1963: July - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified November - President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas 1964: August - Gulf of Tonkin incident 1965: April - U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism July - Announcement ofdispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam
	1968: January - North Korea captured U.S.Pueblo August - Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt 1969: July 20 - Apollo 11 lands on the moon 1970s 1970: April - President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia 1972: July - SALT I signed 1973: January - Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States September - United States helps overthrow Chile government October - Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid
1974: August - President Nixon resigns 1975: April 17 - North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam 1979: July - SALT II signed November - Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis 1980s 1983: - President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative October - U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada 1985: - Iran-Contra Affair (arms sold to Iran, profits used to support contras in Nicaragua) M. Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union
	1986: - Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites October - Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe November - Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public 1987: October - Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty 1989: January - Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan June - China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent
September - Hungary becomes independent November - Berlin Wall falls December - Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends 1990s 1990: March - Lithuania becomes independent May 29 - Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia October 3 - Germany reunited 1991: April - Warsaw Pact ends August - End of Soviet Union Cold War