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Cold War Begins
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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The large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of communism.
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Executive Order 9981 is an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. It ended racial segregation in the armed forces.
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NATO was officially established
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Soviets explode their first atomic bomb
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North Korean Communist forces invade South Korea on June 25.
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Communist takeover of China
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Duck and Cover is a civil defense film (sometimes also characterized propaganda) produced in 1951.
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The Korean War ends
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national security agency of the Soviet Union
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was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe
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Sputnik is launched into orbit
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John F. Kennedy elected President
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Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of nuclear missiles
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bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes.
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President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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Gulf of Tonkin incident
