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The Yalta Conference
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House Un-American Activities Committee begins 'red hunts'
Hollywood blacklist investigations begin (led by Congressman Richard M. Nixon) -
Berlin Blockade
Last until 12 May 1949 -
NATO ratified
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The People's Republic of China is established
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Communist witch hunts begin under the leadership of Senator Joe McCarthy
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Korean War begins
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Mutual Security Act passes into law
Links Western democracies together militarily and economically against the Communist countries -
CIA overthrows a democratically elected government for the first time
Cout d'état against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh -
The Warsaw Pact
United Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. -
U.S. Involvement in Vietnam officially begins
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Fidel Casto's party gains control of Cuba
