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Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
Acivil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang and forces of the Communist Party of China. The war began in April 1927, amidst the Northern Expedition and essentially ended when major active battles ceased in 1950. -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet troops blockaded the highways and railroads and shut off the electric power to West Berlin. It is kown as one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Berlin Airlift
Because there were blockades in West Berlin blocking the land routes they flew massive airlifts. This helped the citizens that needed food, water, and medicine. -
Formation of NATO
The Untied States did not want Communism to spread any further, thus they created the NATO. The United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
A 58-page top secret policy paper issued by the United States National Security Council. It was one of the most significant statements of American policy in the Cold War. NSC-68 largely shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War for the next 20 years, and involved a decision to make Containment against global Communist expansion a high priority -
Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
President Truman fires General MacArthur
MacArthur was a popular hero of World War II who was then the commander of United Nations forces fighting in the Korean War, and his relief remains a controversial topic in the field of civil-military relations. -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union.
