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Truman declares an active role in the Greek Civil War -
Setting a precedent for helping countries combat
poverty, disease, and malnutrition -
the U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere -
This was created to catch Cold War spies -
This was organized to protect Europe from communism -
This begins lasts 11 months -
President Truman and Secretary Acheson signed the Instrument of Accession. -
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Truman publicly announces his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb. -
When the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack. -
became an official government agency. -
MacArthur had overstepped his authority, defied direct orders from his superior and interfered with Truman's hope of ending the Korean War quickly. -
Britain developed its own atom bomb to remain a great power. -
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. -
President Eisenhower sought to solve this terrible problem by suggesting a means to transform the atom from a scourge into a benefit for mankind. -
Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, -
The first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests. -
The main security agency for the Soviet Union. -
Was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland -
the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan -
Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company. -
A spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops. -
a modified R-7 launched the first manned spacecraft. -
the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. -
she died of overheating or suffocation hours into the flight -
The first Atlas rocket launched with a Mercury capsule exploded. -
the first satellite launched by the United States. -
Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech in which he demanded that the Western powers of the United States, Great Britain and France pull their forces out of West Berlin -
Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military junta by founding a paramilitary organization, "The Movement". -
exchanges through interpreters -
Nikita S. Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. that an American spy plane had been shot down. -
John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon. -
invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 1,500 Cuban exiles -
It was closed because it was aimed to starve the western Allies out of the city. -
began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin