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Due to the opposing viewpoints, Russia wanting to expand on communist countries, while other countries wanting to be communist free, tensions began to rise between nations.
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The events that conspired during the Cold War (1947-1966) with tensions rising between the U.S./other foreign countries, and the Soviet's/other communist countries.
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Established the U.S. would provide, economic, military, and political aid to democratic countries/nations under threat of communism.
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In response to the threats from the Soviets after World War II, the U.S. passed this act providing/promoting national security. (Secretary of Defense, National Military Establishment, Department of the Army, Navy, and Department of the Air Force.)
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The Soviet Union blocked roads and rail traffic from West Berlin, in order to cut off access to food, coal, and other crucial supplies.
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in response to the Berlin Blockade, the U.S. began to ship massive amounts of supplies via airlift.
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Chinese communist forces capture Manchuria.
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The North Atlantic Treaty is founded to provide resistance against Russia and its communist forces.
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Chinese communist forces capture Nanjing.
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The Berlin Airlift and overall blockade problem comes to an end.
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Harry Truman orders the development of the Hydrogen Bomb. ("A weapon whose enormous explosive power results from an uncontrolled self-sustaining chain reaction in which isotopes of hydrogen combine under extremely high temperatures to form helium in a process known as nuclear fusion")
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North Korean forces begin to invade South Korea.
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After hearing this news, Harry Truman orders U.S. troops to Korea. (specifically South Korea)
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Winston Churchill announces that Britain has an atom bomb.
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General Douglas MacArthur advocates the use of atom bombs in the Korean War.
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Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg are found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.
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The U.S. begins the construction of the first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus.
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Greece and Turkey end up joining NATO!
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Truman relieves Eisenhower of command during Korean war so he can run for president.
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Joseph Stalin dies.
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Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg are executed.
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Fidel Castro leads an attempt to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
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The U.S. tests a hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands.
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French forces are defeated by North Vietnam forces at Dien Bien Phu.
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French forces agree to leave North Vietnam.
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Civil War breaks out in South Vietnam between supporters of Ngo Dinh Diem and Bo Dai.
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China agrees to provide North Vietnam with economic aid.
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Ngo Dinh Diem replaces Bo Dai as leader of South Vietnam.
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Nikita Khrushchev denounces former leader Joseph Stalin
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Fidel Castro and a small force of armed soldiers land in Cuba
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After planes bomb Egyptian airfields and attack, their forces soon leave Egypt.
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The Soviet Union appeals to the United States and Britain to cease nuclear testing.
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After cutting off aid to Israel, the U.S. resumes aid to Israel.
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Britain carries out its first Hydrogen Bomb test over "Christmas Island"
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Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as prime minister of the Soviet Union.
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Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in China and call for an end for all nuclear testing
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The Soviet Union demands that all forgein troops should be withdrawn from Berlin.
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Fidel Castro and his victorious troops enter Havana
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Members 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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American U-2 spy plane shot over the Soviet Union.
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The United States ends all aid to Cuba
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NATO introduces a unified air defense command
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U.S's Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
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Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy hold summit meeting in Vienna.
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The first U.S. troops arrive in South Vietnam
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Soviet Union agrees to send arms and set up missiles in Cuba
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John F. Kennedy announces that the Soviet Union has installed a missile base in Cuba.
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John F. Kennedy announced the Cuban Missile crisis is over after a strenuous 13 days.
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Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy agree to establish a hot line to use during a Cold War crisis
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President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is assassinated.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas texas. (Many theories circulate his assassination-)
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United States aircraft bomb North Vietnam for the first time.
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Alexsei Kosygin becomes prime minister of the Soviet Union
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China explodes its first atomic bomb
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Australia decides to send troops to South Vietnam.
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The Soviet Union admits to supplying arms to North Vietnam.
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Ho Chi Minh rejects peace talks on the Vietnam War offered by Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Charles De Gaulle calls for the U.S. forces to leave Vietnam, ending up having the French withdraw its troops from NATO
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The United States government admits to using chemical weapons in North Vietnam
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The United States air raid on Hanoi kills over 100 North Vietnamese civilians