Set: Cold War Dates

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February 1945 Yalta
April 1945 FDR Dies - Truman becomes president
May 1945 Germany surrenders
June 1945 UN charter signed in San Francisco
July 1945 Potsdam Conference; Trinity Test
August 1945 Atomic Bombs on Japan
September 1945 Japan formally surrenders
March 1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain speech
April 1946 Soviet troops leave Iran
January 1947 Marshall becomes Secretary of State
March 1947 Truman Doctrine speech before Congress
June 1947 Marshall Plan speech at Harvard
June 1948 Currency reform in 3 Western Germany zones; Berlin Blockade and airlift begin
November 1948 Truman elected President in his own right
April 1949 NATO organized
May 1949 Berlin Blockade ends
August 1949 Soviets test first A-bomb
September 1949 West Germany created
October 1949 People's Republic of China established - Chiang on Formosa
February 1950 Sino-Soviet friendship treaty
April 1950 NSC 68
June 1950 Korean War starts
September 1950 Inchon landing
November 1950 Chinese communists launch major offensive in Korea - US and UN driven south
April 1951 MacArthur fired by Truman
1952 US tests first H-bomb
1952 Korean war stabilizes and continues along 38th parallel
November 1952 IKE wins presidency
March 1953 Stalin dies - power struggle begins
July 1953 Korean armistice signed
1954 Khrushchev in full power
1954 French defeated at Dien Bien Phu
1954 Geneva Accords on Indochina signed
1955 Geneva Summit between Ike and Khrushchev
1956 Khrushchev's de-stalinization speech at 20th Party Congress
October 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Suez crisis
1957 Soviets launch Sputnik
1958 US increases aid to Diem; strives to catch up to Russians in space
1959 Castro takes over Cuba

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Creator kar3nny
Created February 27, 2008
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