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Truman promised to help other countries that were facing a communist take over.
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A program of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country.
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India and Pakistan gain independence from the United Kingdom.
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Stalin banned all shipments to West Berlin through East Germany, which created a blockade and threatened to cut off supplies to the city. Resulting in using airplanes to get supplies.
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The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany
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Russia’s response to the merger of the French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was to cut all road and rail links to that sector. Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. Food was brought to Western Berliners by US and UK airplanes, an exercise known as the Berlin Airlift.
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Russia ended the blockade of Berlin.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
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Federal Republic of Germany is established. Not long later, on Oct. 7, the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) is founded.
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Klaus Fuchs is sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for spying for the Soviet Union.
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The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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Chinese troops enter North Korea and United Nations troops begin to retreat.
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Chinese and North Korean troops capture Seoul.
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United Nations recapture Seoul.
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Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg found guilty of passing atomic secrets to Soviets.
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Winston Churchill announces that Britain has an atom bomb.
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Fulgencio Batista overthrows the Cuban government of President Prio Socarras.
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Matyas Rakosi become prime minister of Hungary.
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Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev.
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The Battle of Old Baldy refers to a series of five engagements for Hill 266 in west-central Korea.
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The Korean war ended. North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while South Korea was affiliated with the USA.
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This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states. The communist leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh while the US friendly south was led by Ngo Dinh Diem.
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The United States tests a hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands
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It is agreed that West Germany should join NATO.
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Civil War breaks out in South Vietnam between supporters of Ngo Dinh Diem and Bo Dai.
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The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.
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Front for National Liberation attack French troops at Philippeville, Algeria.
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It was founded with nine members, the Communist parties of the U.S.S.R., Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, France, and Italy. ... The Cominform was dissolved on April 17, 1956, after the Soviet rapprochement with Yugoslavia and the process of De-Stalinization.
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This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. It quickly gathered momentum and on 24th October Soviet tanks entered Budapest. The tanks withdrew on 28th October and a new government was formed which quickly moved to introduce democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. The Soviet tanks returned on 4th November encircling Budapest.
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Following military bombardment by Israeli forces, a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal which had been nationalized by the Egyptian leader Nasser.
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Anthony Eden resigns as prime minister of Britain as a result of the Suez Crisis.
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The Soviet Union appeals to the United States and Britain to cease nuclear testing.
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USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
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Imre Nagy, former prime minister of Hungary, is executed after a secret trial.
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Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in China and call for an end of all nuclear testing.
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The Soviet Union demands that all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Berlin.
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Fidel Castro and his victorious troops enter Havana.
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Member states vote again against the admission of China to the United Nations.
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The United Nations decide not to intervene in the independence struggle in Algeria.
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American U-2 spy plane shot over the Soviet Union.
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Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union.
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NATO introduces a unified air defence command.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space.
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A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed
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Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.