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truman declares active role in greek civil war -
the plan is annoucned setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty disease and malnutrition -
U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere -
he Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague -
he order established the first general loyalty program in the United States -
An agreement signed by Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, creating a collective defense alliance. It led to the formation of NATO and the Western European Union -
The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. -
It would only be a matter of months before the U.S.S.R. exploded its own atomic bomb.
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Chiang fled to the island of Formosa (Taiwan), where approximately 300,000 soldiers had already been airlifted. -
Truman supported the development of the hydrogen bomb because the Soviet Union had exploded a fission bomb earlier in the year. -
In the wake of U.S. President Truman's Executive Order 9835 of March 21, 1947, requiring that all federal civil service employees be screened for loyalty
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Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea
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The agency distributed posters, programs, and information about communism and the threat of communist attacks. -
By the end of March, they have reached the 38th Parallel, and formed a defensive line across the Korean peninsula.
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Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands after MacArthur made public statements that contradicted the administration's policies. -
It was signed by Japan on September 8, 1951, comes into effect, and Japan signs the Treaty of Taipei, formally ending its period of occupation and isolation, and becoming a sovereign state. -
with European industrial output now well above that of 1948.
July 23: Gamal Abdel Nasser heads a coup against King Farouk of Egypt. -
in Operation Hurricane. The test makes the UK the world's third nuclear power. -
Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev. -
Fidel Castro attempts to overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista. -
North and South Korea remain separate and occupy almost the same territory they had when the war began. -
President Eisenhower sought to solve this terrible problem by suggesting a means to transform the atom from a scourge into a benefit for mankind -
the U.S. launches the world's first nuclear submarine and it would become the ultimate nuclear deterrent. -
It is committed to resisting Communist expansion in the Middle East.
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France withdraws from Indochina, leaving four independent states: Cambodia, Laos, and what became North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The Geneva Accords calls for free elections to unite Vietnam, but none of the major Western powers wish this to occur in the likely case that the Viet Minh (nationalist Communists) would win -
This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states. The communist leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh while the US friendly south was led by Ngo Dinh Diem.
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This movement is designed to be a bulwark against the 'dangerous polarization' of the world at that time and to restore the balance of power with smaller nations -
The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. -
he speech marks the beginning of the De-Stalinization.
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This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. It quickly gathered momentum and on 24th October Soviet tanks entered Budapest. Hungary fell to Russia on 10th November 1956. -
Following military bombardment by Israeli forces, a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal which had been nationalised by the Egyptian leader Nasser. -
they had occupied the previous year.
February 15: Andrei Gromyko begins his long tenure as Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union. -
USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space. -
It is the first time NATO leaders have met together since the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in April 1949. -
On a bombing mission in support of the anti-Sukarno Permesta Rebellion, a B-26 bomber supplied by the CIA is shot down in Ambon, Indonesia.
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Iraq begins to receive support from the Soviets. Iraq will maintain close ties with the Soviets throughout the Cold War.
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United Kingdom opposed the action and eventually deploy some of its navy to the zone, thus triggering the cod wars. -
. In the next several years Cuban-inspired guerrilla movements spring up across Latin America -
in an attempt to impact the Moon but due to an error in device's control systems, resulted in the device missing its target by 5,990 km. -
It is a Communist insurgent movement that vows to overthrow the anti-communist South Vietnamese regime. It is supplied extensively by North Vietnam and the USSR eventually.
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Talks between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 spy plane was shot down over Russian airspace. -
the Chinese leadership, angered at being treated as the "junior partner" to the Soviet Union, declares its version of Communism superior and begin to compete with the Soviets for influence, thus adding a third dimension to the Cold War.
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Sukarno criticizes the United Nations for not being neutral and questions location of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space. -
A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed. -
Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany. -
A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the weapons. The United States agreed not to invade Cuba. -
This event was considered to be one of the first stages of the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.
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China occupies a small strip of Indian land known as the Aksai Chin.
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Indonesia declare to reject the formation of the Federation of Malaysia through the statement of the then Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Subandrio. Sukarno himself as the first President of Indonesia, regarded the formation of the Federation of Malaysia as a Neo Colonialism project and as a British puppet state in Southeast Asia.
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Valetina Tereshkova becoming the first woman in space.
June 20: the United States agrees to set up a hotline with the USSR, thus making direct communication possible. -
JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder but there has always been speculation that he was not a lone killer and that there may have been communist or CIA complicity. -
establishing the new people's republic. The new regime orders a massacre against minorities,
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Nikita Krushchev removed from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. -
China the world's fifth nuclear power.
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Forces loyal to former President Juan Bosch overthrow current leader Donald Reid Cabral. -
150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam. -
which was regarded as an illegal proclamation by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Rhodesia was never formally recognised by any country but receives support from neighboring Portuguese Mozambique and the South African apartheid regime in their war against African guerrillas that determined to oust the white government.
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the first man-made object to impact another planet -
signed by the Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik and Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Razak ending the hostility between Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Korean DMZ between North Korea and South Korea backed by the United States.