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Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union blockaded the western allies railroads, roads, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin that the Allies had undercontrol. -
Berlin Airlift
In response to the Soviet Union Blockaded there ways of supplies, the allies organized the Berlin airlift to drop supplies the the people in the western Berlin -
Formation of NATO
The prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). -
Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China. The creation of the PRC also completed the long process of governmental upheaval in China begun by the Chinese Revolution of 1911. -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
A United States policy which was a decision to increase the pressure of Containment against global Communist expansion a high priority. -
Korean War
Was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
President Truman fires General MacArthur
The military situation had stabilized, but MacArthur's public statements became increasingly irritating to Truman, and he relieved MacArthur of his commands -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the regional economic organization for the communist States of Central and Eastern Europe. -
Launching of Sputnik
When the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball -
Cuban Missile Crisis
United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
