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President Truman announces the Truman Doctrine - giving aid to Greece and Turkey.
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The Soviet Union forms the Communist Information Bureau, dictating the actions of leader
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United Nations pass a resolution calling for the withdrawal of soldiers from Korea.
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President Turman signs the Marshall Plan into effect. By the end of the program, more than 12 billion was given to Western Europe to rebuild post WWII.
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In Germany, the British & French launch a currency know as the Deutsche Mark
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Stalin orders the Berlin Blockade, closing all land routes from West Germany to Berlin.
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The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is created by twelve countries, including the US, UK & France.
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The Soviet Union successfully tests their first atomic bomb, turning the Soviet Union into the world's second nuclear power.
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The Soviet Union declares that their zone of Germany is to become the German Democratic Republic, with East Berlin as the capital.
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Robert Schuman, French foreign minister, explains his ideal Europe, becoming known as the Schuman Declaration
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The United Nations; forces crosses the 38th parallel into North Korea.
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Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, falls to the forces of the United Nations.
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The forces of the United Nations recapture Seoul during Operation Ripper. This was the start of the formation of a defensive line across the Korean peninsula.
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U.S President Harry Truman fires Douglas MacArthur from command of US forces in Korea
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President Truman asks Congress for military and economic aid for the communist nation of Yugoslavia.
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The United States unveils the world's first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus.
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The Marshall Plan ends in 1948, due to the small nature of European industrial exports.
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The US tests thermonuclear fusion bombs for the first time.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the thirty-fourth president of the United States.
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Uprising in East Germany was a rise in protest against the GDR.
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Nikita Khrushchev becomes the leader of the Soviet Communist Party.
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22,000 anti-Communist Prisoners are turned over the the UN forces in Korea.
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The Huk Revolt in the Phillipines is defeated
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Senator Joseph McCarthy states that Communists infiltrated the CIA & atomic weapons industry
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The Baghdad Pact is formed by Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey & the UK.
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The Allies end military occupation West Germany.
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Austria becomes neutralized and allied occupation ends.
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The Suez Canal is nationalized.
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Anti-communist protests become violent in Poznan, Poland.
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Communist Insurgency (sponsored by North Vietnam) starts in South Vietnam.
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Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai, which they had previously occupied.
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The Sputnik Satellite is launched, the same day that the Avro Arrow is revealed.
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SPutnik 2 is launched.
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Mao Zedong intiates the Great Leap Forward.
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The United Arab Republic is formed
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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is formed
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The Tibetan Uprising occurs, against presence of the Republic of China in Tibet.
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New Republic Government of Iraq leaves the Central Treaty Organization.
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Explorer 6 is launched into orbit in order to take photos of the Earth.
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France successfully tests its first atomic bomb, Gerboise Bleue.
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Communist insurgents in Malaysia are defeated.
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The Pathet Lao (communist) revolt occurs in Laos.
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Diplomatic relations with Cuba are severed.
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John F. Kennedy becomes the United States President.
