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Period: to
Year
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H.U.A.C. (House of Un-American Activities Committee)
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Yalta Conference
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Iron Curtain Speech
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Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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Alger Hiss (accused of being a communist)
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Berlin Airtlift
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NATO
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Soviet Detonation of the Atomic Bomb
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Arms Race
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Chinese Communist Revolution
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McCarthysim/ Red Scare
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Korean War
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Rosenberg Spy Case
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Pat McCarran (height of influence)
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H Bomb
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Stalin's Death
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Domino Theory (created)
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Massive Retaliation
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Dien Bien Phu
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Guatemalan Coup
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Space Race
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Khrushchev's Secret Speech
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Vietnam War begins
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Sputnik
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Neutron Bomb
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Fidel Castro (on becoming Prime Minister of Cuba)
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Leonid Brezhnev (became Chairman)
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Trsscomm
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U-2 Spy Plane Affair
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Bay of Pigs
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Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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B-59 Submarine Incident
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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Hotline
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Indonesian Coup
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Six Day War
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U.S.S. Liberty
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Prague Spring Rebellion
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Tet Offensive
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U.S.S. Scorpion (lost)
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Brezhnev Doctrine
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Detente
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SALT I
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Vietnamization
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Cambodia & Khmer Rouge
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Vietnam War ends
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Helsinki Accords
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SALT II
-
Afghanistan War begins
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NORAD Computer Glitch
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M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)
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Solidarity
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Ronald Reagan (presidency)
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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
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Able Archer 83 Exercise
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Perestoika
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John Walker (imprisoned)
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Glasnost
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Mikhail Gorbachev (Elected)
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INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty
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Afghanistan War ends
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German Reunification
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Warsaw Pact
