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Period: to
H.U.A.C.
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Yalta Conference
Start: February 4 -
Mutually Assured Destruction (Start)
Still policy today -
Iron Curtain Speech
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Truman Doctrine (Speech)
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Marshall Plan (signed into law)
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Berlin Airlift (Start)
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NATO Formed
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Soviet Detonation of the Atomic Bomb
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Period: to
Arms Race
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Chinese Communist Revolution
-
Period: to
McCarthyism / Red Scare
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Period: to
Korean War
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Rosenberg Spy Case (Start)
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Alger Hiss Conviction
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McCaran - height of influence
McCarran Act -
H-Bomb Detonation
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Stalin's Death
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"Massice Retaliation" Policy Announced
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Dien Bien Phu (start)
March 13 to May 7 -
Domino Theory
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Guatemelan Coup
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Period: to
Warsaw Pact
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Period: to
Space Race
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Khrushchev's Secret Speeh
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Period: to
Vietnam War
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Launching of Sputnik
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Neutron Bomb
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Fidel Castro to Power
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Period: to
Period of Trsscom
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U-2 Spy Plane Affair
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Bay of Pigs
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Berlin Wall
-
Cuban Missile Crisis
-
The B-59 Submarine Incident
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
-
Hotline installed
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
-
Period: to
Brezhnev Rule
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Indonesian Coup
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Six Day War (Start)
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Attack on U.S.S. Liberty
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Prague Spring Rebellion (start)
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Tet Offensive (start)
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U.S.S. Scorpion Lost
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Period: to
Brezhnev Doctrine
-
Period: to
Détente
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Start of Vietnamization
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SALT I
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Period: to
Cambodia and Khmer Rouger
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Helsinki Accords
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NORAD Computer Glitch
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Period: to
Afghanistan War
-
Period: to
Polish Solidarity
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Period: to
Reagan Presidency
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SDI Proposed
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Able Archer 83 Exercise
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John Walker Imprisonment
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Start of Perestroika
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Start of Glastnost
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Period: to
Mikhail Gorbachev (Leads Soviet Union)
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INF Treaty goes into effect
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German Reunification
