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President Truman pledges American assistance to any nation threatened by communism
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George Marshall, Secretary of State, proposes a $13 billion foreign aid package to help Europe recover from World War 2
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This act was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies after WW2.
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The United Nations establishes the World Health Organization (WHO)
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Russia responded to the merger of the French, US, and UK of Berlin was to blockade all roads and railroads to that sector meant people living in Western Berlin had no access to food and faced starvation. Food was brought by the US and UK by planes (called the Berlin Airlift).
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During the election, Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) formed with Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdoms, and the US
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Russia ended the blockade of Berlin
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Russia tested its first atomic bomb
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Truman approved the H-bomb development
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Korean War began when North Korean invaded South Korea
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Congress overrides Truman's veto and McCarran Act becomes a law
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The Federal Civil Defense Administration was established
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Truman fired MacArthur and replaced him with General Matthew Ridgeway
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Winston Churchill is re-elected as Britain's prime minister
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Churchill announces possession of an atomic bomb
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Marshall Plan aid comes to an end
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Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the US
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Stalin dies at the age of 74
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The Korean War ends. North Korea remains affiliated with Russia while South is affiliated with the US
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Eisenhower delivers a speech regarding balancing war and peace to the U.N. General Assembly
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The US conducts the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon test
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The US put the Communist Control Act into effect. This provides penalties for communists who fail to register or become involved in party activities.
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West Germany joins the NATO
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The US announces its plan to develop Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles armed with nuclear weapons.
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Scientists at Columbia University develop the atomic clock
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A pact between East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union was formed.
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President Dwight Eisenhower suspends aid to Israel in protest at its invasion of Egypt.
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UN forces arrives in Egypt to deal with the Suez Crisis.
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Suez Crisis begins with an Israeli attack11 against Egyptian forces in the Sina
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The Soviet Union appeals to the United States and Britain to cease nuclear testing.
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Britain carries out its first hydrogen bomb test over Christmas Island.
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the Soviet Unions first artificial satellites the Sputnik is launched into orbit
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The US launched its first satellite, Explorer I
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The US launched Explorer lll
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Start of the Second Berlin Crisis
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John Dulles resigns from the Secretary of State because of his cancer
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Hawaii becomes the 50th US State
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Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps that are free to the poor
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The US launches a weather satellite called Trios-1
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US oil companies in Cuba refused to refine Soviet oil
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JFK is elected President
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Russia becomes the first country to put men in space. This event starts the space race.
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1,400 Cuban exiles launched o the south coast of Cuba
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The US sends its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, into space
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The Berlin Wall is built to seal borders between West and East Germany
