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Iron Curtain Speech
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Policy of Containment
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Truman Doctrine
March 12, 1947 -
Marshall Plan
April 3, 1948 -
Period: to
Berlin Airlift
June 24, 1948 – May 11, 1949 -
NATO formed
April 4, 1949 -
Period: to
Korean War
June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953 -
US tests the H-Bomb
November 1, 1952 -
Warsaw Pact formed
May 14, 1955 -
Period: to
Vietnam War
November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975 -
Launch of Sputnik
October 4, 1957 -
U-2 Incident
May 1, 1960 -
Bay of Pigs invasion
Lasted until April 19th, 1961 -
Berlin Wall built
August 13, 1961 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 14, 1962 – October 28, 1962 -
Non Proliferation Treaty
1968 -
Germany reunification
October 3, 1990 -
Soviet Union break-up
December 26, 1991