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Truman Doctrine
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Policy of Containment
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Marshall Plan
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Comecon
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NATO formed
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Creation of West Germany
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Soviet Union tests their first atomic bomb
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Berlin Aircraft ends Blockade of West Berlin
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Communists defeat Nationalist China
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Korean war
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Stalin's Death
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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The launch of Sputnik 1
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Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Tonkin Resolution
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Johnson raises troop numbers
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Nixon signs Agreement to withdraw from Vietnam
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Soviet invastion of Afghnistan