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Truman Becomes President
Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President of the United States. -
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Cold War Timespan
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Potsdam Program
Truman meets with Stalin about atomic bomb testing and strategies. -
A-Bomb: Hiroshima
Truman announces the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. -
A-Bomb: Nagasaki
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Truman Doctrine gave Turkey & Greece aid after economic problems during post WW2.
Gave aid to Greece and Turkey after the economic devastation of WW2. -
Marshall Plan created to help rebuild Europe.
Created by Secretary of State George Marshall to help with the rebuilding of Europe. -
Berlin Airlift sent to bring supplies to Berlin after Soviet blockade.
U.S. airlifts supplies to Berlin after Soviet forces create a blockade around the Allied controlled section of Berlin in order to be supplied with food and fuel. Giving the Soviets control over the entire city. -
N.A.T.O. signed by 12 nations
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Loyalty Program created to weed out Soviet spies transmitting info to U.S.S.R.
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Hydrogen Bomb created
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Korean War Begins
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Eisenhower becomes president
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Eisenhower approves "New Look" Cold War policy.
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Armistice signed ending Korean War
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U.S. informed that Soviets have tested a hydrogen bomb.
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U.S.S. Nautilus, first nuclear submarine, launched.
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Atomic Energy Commision detonates hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll.
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Warsaw Pact created.
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Geneva Accords signed.
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Communist party banned in U.S.
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Eisenhower approves building of thirty U-2 recon planes.
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Eisenhower submits "Open Skies" proposal to U.S.S.R.
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U-2 spy flights begin over Soviet Union.
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Inspection system created to ban nuclear tests.
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First underground nuclear explosion at Nevada proving grounds.
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U-2 recon plane shot down over U.S.S.R.
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First launch of the Polaris missile.
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Kennedy becomes president.
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Kennedy creates peace corps. for support of other countries.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Bay of Pigs Invasion ends.
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Goals to reach the moon before Soviets.
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Meeting in Paris to open peace with French.
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Meeting in Paris ends.
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Kennedy meets with Nikita Khrushchev.
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Military buildup in Germany to threaten Soviets.
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Berlin Wall is built.
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Cuban Missile Crisis erupts.
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Cuban Missile Crisis resolved.
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Kennedy announces Peace Strategy.
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Kennedy ratifies Nuclear Test Ban.
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Kennedy is assassinated.
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president after Kennedy's assassination.
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Johnson delivers the "Great Society" speech.
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Johnson announces attack on U.S. destroyers by N. Vietnamese torpedos.
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U.S. first enters Vietnam.
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Dominican Republic Crisis
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Johnson increases troops in Vietnam (75,000 to 125,000).
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March of the Pentagon
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Nixon becomes president.
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Cambodian bombings begin.
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Nixon withdraws troops from South Vietnam.
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"Silent Majority"
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed.
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Trade and travel agreement between Berlin & Germany.
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (lasted till)
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Treaty signed to end Vietnam War
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War Powers Act
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Gerald Ford becomes president.
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Nixon resigned
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SALT agrrement to limit nuclear weapons.
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Helsinki Accords
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Ford evacuates U.S. mission in Cambodia
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Jimmy Carter becomes president.
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Camp David Accords
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Strategic Arms Limitation 2
