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The Communist People's Liberation Army and anti-Communist forces supported by Great Britain fought for control of Greece.
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Truman asked for $400 million in aid for Greece and Turkey.
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The Truman Doctrine was developed.
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The split ing Europe between the United States and the Soviet Union had become a fact of life.
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George Kennan argued for a policy of containment to keep communism within its existing boundaries and prevent futher Soviet aggresive moves.
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Great Britain, France, and the United States were making plans to unify the three Western sections of Germany and create a West German government.
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The Berlin Airlift begins.
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The United States and its European allies formed this organization.
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The Soviet Union responded to the Marshall Plan by founding the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance for the economic cooperation of the Eastern European states.
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In September 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany was formally created.
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The Korean War began as an attempt by the Communist government of North Korea to take over South Korea.
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Stalin died on March 5, 1953.
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The United States, Soviet Union and China intervene in the Korean War.
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To stem Soviet aggression in the East, the United States, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
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The Soviet Union joined with Albania, Bulgaria, Czecholovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania in a formal military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact.
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The new leader of the Soviet Union.
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Krushchev condemned Stalin for his administrative violence, mass depression, and terror.
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The Soviets sent the first human-made space satellite to orbit Earth.
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The Central Treaty Organization, which included Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain, and the United States, was meant to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding the south.
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He overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and set up a Soviet-supported totalitarian regime in Cuba.
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France exploded its first nuclear bomb.
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Krushchev allowed the publication of the book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The book is a grim portrayal of life in a Siberian labor camp.
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Khrushchev began to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. The missiles were meant to counteract U.S nuclear weapons placed in Turkey.
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In August 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. led a march on Washington, D.C. to dramatize the African American desire for equality.
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It created the machinery to end segregation and discrimination in the workplace and all public places.
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In the summer of 1965, race riots broke out in the Watts district of Los Angeles. Thirty-four people died and over 1,000 buildings were destroyed.
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The first secretary of the Communist Party.
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A series of student protests was followed by a general labor strike.
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To forestall the spreading of the spring fever, the Soviet Army invaded Czechoslovakia. It crushed the reform movement.
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Four students at this unniversity were killed and nine others were wounded by the Ohio National Guard during a student demonstration. This startled the nation.
