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United Nations Formed
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. -
Germany divided
The West wanted to revive the German economy and combine the three western zones into one area. Soviet Union feared this union because it gave the one combined zone more power than its zone. After Germany was divided into two parts, East Germany built the Berlin Wall to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the west. -
Truman Doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
US and Britain give food to their side of Berlin by plane to get around the blockade. -
NATO Formed
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Kim il-sung invades South Korea
Coming to power after the end of Japanese rule in 1945, he authorized the invasion of South Korea in 1950, triggering an intervention in defense of South Korea by the United Nations led by the United States. -
Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
Chinese forces fighting for their Korean comrades enter the North Korean capital and push United Nations troops back south. -
UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
With the North Korean capital city secured, the Eighth Army continued its push northward toward the Yalu River, Korea’s traditional border with China. -
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Korean War
North Korea and South Korea fight over how the gov. is run and which leader takes over. This ends with Korea dividing into 2 -
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair. -
Armistice signed
This armistice signed on July 27, 1953, formally ended the war in Korea. North and South Korea remain separate and occupy almost the same territory they had when the war began. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
formally Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. -
Sputnik I
the first artificial satellite. Made by USSR
