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Cold War 1947-1966
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Truman Doctrine
Truman asks Congress to support "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures." Congress grants $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey to defend against Communist guerrillas. -
Marshall Plan
Secretary of State George C. Marshall calls on European nations to draft plan for European economic recovery, offering aid in planning and "later support." Eastern Europe walks out of initial Paris meeting at Soviet behest. -
Containment Policy
George F. Kennan, writing anonymously in Foreign Affairs, articulates America's policy to block peacefully the expansion of Soviet political and economic influence into vulnerable areas around the world. -
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
Communist over take the Czechoslovakian government and we began seeing other countries taking affect from this -
Brussels Pact organized to protect Europe from communism
A collective self-defense treaty signed in 1948 by the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union blockades all highway, river, and rail traffic into Western-controlled West Berlin to force the Western powers out of Berlin. -
NATO Established
All of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, come together to create an alliance -
Berlin Blockade ends
When the Soviet Union lifted its blockade of West Berlin. This 11-month blockade, initiated in June 1948, had cut off land and river access to the western sectors of Berlin, which were under Allied control -
Russia Tested Its First Atomic Bomb
The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.