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President Truman made a promise to help any country that was under attack or threatened by a communist takeover.
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It was an economic plan that was used to give foreign aid to European countries that were affected by World War 2. Stalin and the Communist Bloc rejected this plan and the aid
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The Soviet Union set up the Communist Information Bureau.
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Communist take over the country of Czechoslovakia in 1948
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Allies bring food and supplies to West Berlin
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The Soviets blocked all access to the city of West Berlin from the allies.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed with the United States and many western European countries.
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The Soviet Union ended the blockade from Berlin
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The French, United Kingdom, and the United States combine their parts of Germany into West Germany
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Truman ordered the development of the hydrogen bomb
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The Soviets and China sign a 30-year treaty of friendship
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The United States intervenes in Korea after the North Koreans attack the South in the name of democracy
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General McCarther wanted to use atomic bombs in the Korean War
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The Rosenberg's are found guilty for treason by giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets
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He is no longer needed in his command in the Korean War.
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Winston Churchill announced that the United Kingdom has a nuclear bomb
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Matyas Rakosi becomes prime minister of Hungary.
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Rudolf Slansky is executed in Czechoslovakia for Titoism.
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Josip Tito is elected President of Yugoslavia
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The leader of the Soviet Union dies at the age of 74
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The Korean war ends and both sides are still affiliated with their own sides.
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The United States tests a hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands.
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France agrees to leave North Vietnam.
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Mao Zedong becomes chairman and Zhou Enlai becomes prime minister of China.
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Civil War breaks out in South Vietnam between supporters of Ngo Dinh Diem and Bo Dai.
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Conscription is introduced in China.
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Diplomatic relations restored between West Germany and the Soviet Union.
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Nikita Khrushchev denounces former leader Joseph Stalin.
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74 people are killed during political protests in Poland.
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The Soviet Union threatens to intervene in the war over the Suez Canal.
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Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
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President Dwight Eisenhower resumes aid to Israel.
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The Soviet Union appeals to the United States and Britain to cease nuclear testing
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Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as prime minister of the Soviet Union.
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Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in China and calls 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 decided 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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The United States ends all aid to Cuba.
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Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
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The United States promises to support South Vietnam against communist aggression.
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The United Nations rejects a proposal by the Soviet Union to admit China.
