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Cold War Events
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Bretton Woods Conference
IMF created & development of World Bank -
GI BIll
Education $ for veterans -
Yalta Conference
Meeting of Big Three Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt -
FDR out, Truman in
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United Nations Created
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Division of Korea
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US troops in Korea
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Employment Act
Govt promotes max employment, production & purchasing power -
Conclusion of Nuremberg Trials
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Truman Doctrine
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Truman's loyalty program
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National Security Act
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Blockade
Division of West Berlin from East Berlin -
Creation of NATO
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US pulls out of Korea
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Completion of Berlin Airlift
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Berlin Blockade Lifted
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Soviet uses first atom bomb
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NSC-68
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Beginning of McCarthyism ideology
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Stalin dies, Khruschev succeeds
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Geneva Accords
Divided Vietnam on 17th parallel -
Warsaw Pact
Opposition to NATO for Soviet Union -
Sputnik reaches space!
Soviets reach space with unmanned satellite -
NASA created
Domestic developments in the US -
Castro in power
Sworn into office -
U2 Incident
US spy plane shot down by Soviets -
OPEC created
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Building of Berlin Wall
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Kennedy increases support for S. Vietnam
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Cuban Missile Crisis Concludes
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Tet Offensive
N. Vietnamese suprise attacking the S. Vietnamese and its allies -
US man on the moon
Success for Americans!! Reached the moon
