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End of World War II
With the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945, World War II was over. -
United Nations is established
The United Nations came into existence, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories. -
Churchill gives his "Iron Curtain" speech.
Churchill gave his now famous "Iron Curtain" speech to a crowd of 40,000. In this speech, Churchill gave the very descriptive phrase that surprised the United States and Britain, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." -
Truman doctrine
The provision by president Harry Truman (1884–1972) of US aid to Greece and Turkey as part of the anti- Communist foreign policy which signaled the start of the Cold War containment policy. -
Marshall plan
George C. Marshall issued a call for a comprehensive program to rebuild Europe. Fanned by the fear of Communist expansion and the rapid deterioration of European economies in the winter of Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act in March 1948 and approved funding that would eventually rise to over $12 billion for the rebuilding of Western Europe. -
Berlin airlift begins
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control.
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NATO ratified
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Berlin Blockade ends
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USSR's first atomic bomb test
Russia tested its first atomic bomb. -
China's Civil War
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Truman approved H-bomb development
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Korean War begins
Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons -
Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president
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Stalin's death
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Korean war ends
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H-bomb Castle-Bravo test
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The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is signed
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Warsaw Pact formed
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Eisenhower Doctrine
In response to the increasingly tense situation in the Middle East, President Dwight Eisenhower delivered a proposal to a joint session of the U.S. Congress calling for a new and more proactive American policy in the region. -
Soviets launch sputnik
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Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
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U-2 incident.
The pilot Francis Gary Powers caused the U-2 incident. -
John F. Kennedy elected President of USA
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Berlin border is closed
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Construction of Berlin Wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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Lyndon Johnson become precident.
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Announcement of dispatching of 200,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam
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Richard Nixon Elected President of the USA
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon
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SALT I signed
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President Nixon resigns
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Gerald Ford took office
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Jimmy Carter
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SALT II signed
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Soviet forces invade Afghanistan
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Ronald Reagan become precident
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The Strategic Defense Initiative first initiated
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Soviets leave Afghanistan
The Soviet Union pulled its remaining troops out of Afghanistan, ending the USSR's nine-year occupation of the country. -
George H. W. Bush
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Tiananmen Square protests began
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Tiananmen Square protests
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Berlin Wall falls
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Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
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Boris Yeltsin
President of Russia from 1991 until 1999. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
