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Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
China had been in a state of civil war since the Shanghai Massacre and the collapse of the First United Front in 1927. The main phase of the Chinese Civil War. -
Berlin Airlift
The Allies partitioned the defeated Germany into a Soviet-occupied zone, an American-occupied zone a British-occupied zone and a French-occupied zone. Berlin the German capital city was located deep in the Soviet zone, but it was also divided into four sections. -
Berlin Blockade
was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road. -
Formation of NATO
The prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO. -
Korean War
the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
The President Truman did not support NSC-68 when it was brought to him in 1950. He believed that it was not specific about which programs would be affected or changed and it also didn't go well with his previous defense spending limits -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance the Warsaw Pact in 1955. The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II.