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Truman Doctrine
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NATO is formed
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Marshall Plan is created
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Berlin Blockade
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COMECON
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Soviet Union drops their first atomic bomb
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People's Republic of China is formed
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Korean War
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Marshall Plan is replaces with mutual security act
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Josef Stalin dies
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Sputnik is launched into orbit by USSR
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Vietnam War
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Erection of the Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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LBJ raises number of combat troops in Vietnam
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Nixon agrees to remove troops from Vietnam
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
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Destruction of the Berlin Wall