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Timeline of Soviet Leaders, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , …

- - - - Brezhnev (1964-1982)
        
        Andropov (1982-1984)
        
        Chernenko (1984-1985)
        
        Gorbachev (1985-1991)
        
        dissolved the soviet union
        
        Escalated spending on the Cold War
        
        1968 - Brezhnev's Soviet forces set the tone for the Brezhnev Doctrine that crushes the 'Prague Spring' and demonstrates his intolerance of counter-revolution.
        
        1969 - Relations between the two communist nations (Mao and Brezhnev) reached an all-time low amidst worries that China was an unpredictable nuclear power after their first weapon test in 1964.
        
        1970 - West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt begins his Ostpolitik or "politics of the east" with the Treaty of Moscow signed by Soviet ministers Kosygin and Gromyko as recognition of European borders and a foundation for détente.
        
        1972 - Brandt followed this with a Basic Treaty with East Germany and Brezhnev visited West Germany in the same year.
        
        21st Feb 1972 - Nixon becomes the first US President to visit Beijing since the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution and begins an era of working on diplomatic solutions with his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
        
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        18th June 1973 - Brezhnev goes to the United States and addresses the population in Washington with a friendly tone. The two countries pledge to avoid nuclear war but fail to sign any concrete follow-up to SALT I.
        
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        Sino-Soviet split
        
        Cooperation: Non-proliferation Treaty,
        SALT 1 and 2, cut back in materials for nuclear weapons
        
        Second Cold War - Afghanistan
        
        Response to Tet Offensive, Rolling Thunder (actions in Vietnam)
      - The Warsaw Pact 1955
      - The Geneva Accords 1954
      - Secret Speech 1956
      - Secret Speech 25th February 1956
      - De-Stalinisation 1956-1964
      - Austrian State Treaty 1955
      - Geneva Summit July 1955
      - Paris Summit May 1960
      - Camp David Talks Sept 1959
      - Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
      - Cooperation : Washington - Moscow Hotline 1963
      - Vietnam - Support for Ho Chi Minh, NLF, revolutionary violence strategy
      - Hungarian Uprising 1956
      - Polish uprising 1956
      - First H-bomb tested in USSR 1955
      - First ICBM testing 1957
      - First satellite into space 1957
      - Berlin Wall 1961
      - Sino-Soviet split 1962
      - Supported India against China in 1959
      - Moscow Test Ban Treaty