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Harry Truman announces Truman Doctrine and the provision of aid to Greece.
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General George C. Marshall announces the Marshall Plan.
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United Nations General Assembly call for elections in Korea.
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The start of the Berlin Airlift.
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Chaim Weizmann becomes president of Israel.
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Klement Gottwald becomes President of Czechoslovakia.
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Israel agrees an armistice with Egypt.
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North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) is founded to provide opposition to the Soviet Union.
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Communist forces in China capture Nanjing.
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Mustafa Pasha forms a nationalist government in Egypt.
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Alger Hiss is convicted for concealing his membership of the Communist Party.
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Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
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Chinese and North Korean troops capture Seoul.
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General Douglas MacArthur advocates the use of atom bombs in Korean War.
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United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
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Winston Churchill announces that Britain has an atom bomb.
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Fulgencio Batista overthrows the Cuban government of President Prio Socarras.
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Rudolf Slansky is executed in Czechoslovakia for Titoism.
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Josip Tito elected President of Yugoslavia.
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Joseph Stalin dies.
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Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg executed.
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Gregory Malenkov is replaced by Nikolai Bulganin as prime minister of the Soviet Union.
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It is agreed that West Germany should join NATO.
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Front for National Liberation mounts an insurrection in Algeria.
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China agrees to provide North Vietnam with economic aid.
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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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The Soviet Union abolishes the Cominform.
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President Josip Tito visits the Soviet Union.
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Zhou Enlai, prime minister of China, visits the Soviet Union.
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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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Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as prime minister of the Soviet Union.
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Imre Nagy, former prime minister of Hungary, is executed after a secret trial.
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Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in China and call for an end of all nuclear testing.
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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 decide not to intervene in the independence struggle in Algeria.
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French settlers in Algeria riot in Algiers.
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Soviet forces shoot down a US RB-47 survey aircraft.
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East Germany imposes blockade of West Berlin.
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Patrice Lumumba is murdered in Katanga, Congo.
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Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
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United States promises to support South Vietnam against communist aggression.
