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The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
the Marshall Plan was to aid in the economic recovery of nations after World War II and secure US geopolitical influence over Western Europe. -
The plan envisages the division of Palestine into 3 parts: a Jewish state, an Arab State , and the City of Jerusalem, to be placed under an International Trusteeship system -
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. -
when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and the United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. -
In a speech by Bernard Baruch the term Cold War is used for the first time. -
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 -
Russia ended the blockade of Berlin. -
Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Harry Truman decided to make the order to send our troops to korea.
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After Seoul was captured by Chinese and North Korean troops we were able to take it back.
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General Douglas MacArthur advocates the use of atomic bombs in Korean War. He knew this would help us with an advantage in the war.
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Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg found guilty of passing atomic secrets to Soviets.
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Two new countries join NATO which is Greece and Turkey.
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Winston Churchill announces that Britain has an atom bomb.
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the Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect signed by japan which formally ended its period of occupation and isolation, and became a sovereign state.
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A new president came inro order. Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th President of the United States.
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The death of joseph Stalin
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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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The U.S. launches the world's first nuclear submarine which is called the USS Nautilus. The nuclear submarine would become the ultimate nuclear deterrent.
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The first test for the hydrogen bomb
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the Geneva Agreements were signed and as part of the agreement, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam
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Nato expands with west Germany and begins rearmament.
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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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The Vietnam War has officially begun.
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A countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR
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Dwight D. Eisenhower remains president.
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President Dwight Eisenhower suspends aid to Israel in protest at its invasion of Egypt.
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The Eisenhower Doctrine commits the United States to defending Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan from Communist influence.
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Britain's first successful hydrogen bomb was detonated over Christmas Island in the Pacific.
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USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
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Explorer 1 is launched by the U.S army which was the first American artificial satellite
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Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as prime minister of the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet Union demands that all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Berlin.
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Fidel Castro wins the Cuban Revolution and becomes the dictator of Cuba.
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Talks between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 spy plane was shot down over Russian airspace.
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John F . Kennedy becomes the 35th president of the united states
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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.
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Mariner 2 is launched to make a flyby of Venus.It became the first successful mission to another planet
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
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it was between China and India and a disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war.
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France announces that it is withdrawing its navy from the North Atlantic fleet of NATO.
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prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground.
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President John F Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas.
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The U.S army aircraft attacked North Vietnam using bombs
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The soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been taken as his role as leader.
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China tests its first atomic bomb. The test makes China the world's fifth nuclear power.
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An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement was assassinated.
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150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam.
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Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to fly by Mars, and the first to return close-up images of the Red Planet
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Luna 9 was launched and became the first spacecraft to achieve a survivable landing on a celestial body.
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surveyor 1 becomes the first American spacecraft to softly land on another extraterrestrial body.
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surveyor 1 becomes the first American spacecraft to softly land on another extraterrestrial body.
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Was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia, Zambia, and Angola