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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is a international relations policy which stated that the US will try to prevent the spread of Communism and will provid economic and military aid -
Czechoslovakia Communist
Communist Take Power in Czechoslovakia President Edvard Benes let the communist party take control of the government. He didnt want to infact he was hoping that allies would intervine and protect them for communism -
Marshall Plan Approved
Marshall PlanThe Marshall Plan is a European Recovery. That will help rebuild European economies after WWII. It was all to get the European countries to side with us and prevent the spread of Communism -
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Berlin Blockade
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NATO is established
formation of NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization was primarily a security pact. Which stated that if any country that is part of NATO is attacked they are challenging all of the countries associated with NATO. -
Mao Zedong takes control of china
Despite massive U.S. support for the Nationalist regime, Mao's forces were victorious in 1949 and drove the Nationalist government onto the island of Taiwan. In September, with cannons firing salutes and ceremonial flags waving, Mao announced the victory of communism in China and vowed to establish the constitutional and governmental framework to protect the "people's revolution." -
Mccarthyism Starts
McCarthyism is the practice of maiking accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It originated from Joseph McCarthy which many political figures and celebrities of having sympathy for Communist or biased towrds Communism -
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The Korean War
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KGB Established
Was the Main Security Agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapes in 1991. the KGB is like the CIA of the Soviet Union. -
17th Parallel
DMZ of VietnamVietnamese Demilitarized Zone is a dividing line between North and South Vietnam and was a result of the first Indochina War. It played an important roll during the Vietnam War as a battleground demarcation separating North Vietnamese territory and South Vietnamese territory. -
Warsaw Pact Established
The Soviet Union and seven of its European neighbors sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Hungarian Revolution starts
Hungarian RevoltThe revolt was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet imposed policies. It was the first major threat to the soviet union since WWII. -
Sputnik I is launched into space
Sputnik ISputnik I was the first artificial earth satellite it was launched by the Soviet Union and gave new information about the upper atmosphere of earth. It started the Space Race -
Explorer I launched into orbit
ExplorerExplorer I was the first satellite launched by the United States, for its particapation in the International Geophysical Year. The satellite followed the first two satellites the previous year the Soviet Union's Sputnik I,II which started the Cold War space race -
The U-2 Incident
During a surveillance mission over Soviet Union the american U-2 was shot down near Aramil, Soviet Union. Surviving pilot Francis Gary Powers was convicted of espionage -
First man in Space
First Man in SpaceYuri Gagarin was the first man in outerspace when his Vostok space craft completed and orbit around earth. Vostok 6 was the last Vostok mission which carried the first women in space -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The CIA finance and trained a group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro, the attack was a failure -
The Berlin Wall is Built
The Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a concrete and barbed wire wall between east and west Berlin. It was built to keep western people out -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
John F. Kennedy is assassinated
JFK assassinatedPresiden John F. Kennedy was fataly shot by a sniper in his motercade while touring Dallas, Texas. His killer is Lee Harvey Oswald. -
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The Vietnam War
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Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the tet offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
First man on the Moon
Apollo 11Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11 and when it landed on the moon Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon
