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End of WWII
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Churchill- "Iron Curtain Speech"
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Truman Doctrine
Policy of Containment- Shift in American foreign policy to interventionism -
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Berlin Blockade
Russia Blockaded roads leading through East Germany to West Berlin- cut off Supplies from Western Europe -
Berlin Airlift
England and Western European countries sent flights to give supplies to the isolated West Berlin -
North Korea Begins War by Invading South Korea
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Korean War
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US troops land in Korea and Push North Korea far into their territory
Causes the chinese intervention into Korea -
China Sends in troops to support North Korea
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Eisenhower Elected as American President
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Death of Joseph Stalin
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Khrushchev Came to Power as the Head of the USSR
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Geneva Conference Divides Vietnam along the 17th Parallel
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Warsaw Pact
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Warsaw Pact Signed by Soviet States of Eastern Europe
Equivelent to NATO- Military alliance among Eastern European Communist States -
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Vietnam War
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Suez Canal Nationalized by Egyptian President
Israel feels threatened by percieved aggression. Egypt and France no longer have access to the trade rout they had paid for and owned. USSR is funding Egypt with Weapons and Money through Czechoslovakia. -
Britain, France ad Israel Invade Egypt
US was mad that they hadn't been consulted and that there was no UN agreement. Lester B. Pearson was the UN peace broker. -
Fidel Castro leads a Communist Revultion that Overthrows Cuba
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JFK Elected President of the United States
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed attempt to overthrow Castros government. Led by the CIA and authorized by JFK -
Cuban Missile Crisis Culminates in US Naval Blockade of Cuba
US takes spy photos of Cuban Nuclear Missile Sylos funded by Russia. UN resolution to resolve conflict, which Russia denied. US created a naval embargo of Cuba, which almost led to war between USSR and US. -
Fall of Saigon
