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Cold War

By leahdbriggs
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    Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

    Harry Truman announces the Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall Plan

    General George C. Marshall announces the Marshall Plan.

  • Berlin Airlift

    This day marks the start of the Berlin Airlift

  • Chaim Weizmann

    Chaim Weizmann becomes president of Israel.

  • NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty (also known as NATO) is formed to provide support in opposing the Soviet Union.

  • Berlin Airlift (2)

    The Berlin Airlift ends.

  • H-Bomb

    Harry Truman orders for the hydrogen bomb to be developed.

  • Treaty

    China and the Soviet Union sign a 30-year treaty of friendship.

  • Atom Bombs

    General Douglas MacArthur supports the use of atom bombs in the Korean War.

  • Douglas MacArthur

    General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of his command in Korea.

  • Winston Churchill

    Churchill announces that Britain has an atom bomb.

  • Rudolf Slansky

    Rudolf Slansky is executed in Czechoslovakia for Titoism.

  • Josip Tito

    Josip Tito elected President of Yugoslavia.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Stalin dies

  • The Marshall Islands

    The United States uses the Marshall Islands to test a hydrogen bomb.

  • Civil War

    Supporters of Ngo Dinh Diem and Bo Dai begin a Civil War in South Vietnam.

  • The Cominform

    The Soviet Union abolishes the Cominform.

  • Nuclear Testing

    The Soviet Union asks the United States and Britain to stop nuclear testing.

  • Berlin

    The Soviet Union demands that all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Berlin.

  • Havana

    Fidel Castro and his troops enter Havana.

  • Spy Plane

    An American U-2 spy plane is shot over the Soviet Union.

  • Summit Meeting

    Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy hold summit meeting in Vienna.