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Cold War Timeline 1945-1963
Truman-Ike-JFK
1945
Potsdam Conference
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Establishment of “Spheres of Influence” in
Eastern Europe
Division of Germany
1946
Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech”
1947
Truman Doctrine “Containment”
Aid to Turkey & Greece
Marshall Plan
National Security Act of 1947
Republicans set up “Loyalty Review Boards”
1948
Berlin Blockade & Airlift
US $400 million to Chiang Kai-shek in China
Creation of Israel
HUAC
Hollywood Ten convictions – “blacklisting”
Alger Hiss Trial – Rise of Richard Nixon
1949
USSR gets the Atomic Bomb
Mao & Communists win the Civil War in China
NATO created
1950
NSC-68
McCarran Internal Security Act
HUAC investigations increase
Joseph McCarthy 1st allegations & begins Senate
Investigations
Sino-Soviet Pact (China & Soviet Alliance)
North Korea invades South Korea
Korean War begins
MacArthur leads UN Invasion of Korea
1951
US-Japanese Security Treaty
HUAC returns
Dennis et al. v. United States upholds the Smith
Act of 1940
Rosenberg Trial – found guilty
1952
US develops the H-Bomb
Eisenhower elected
1953
USSR tests H-Bomb
Armistice ends Korean War
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed
Dulles Brothers – “Massive retaliation”
“M.A.D.”
“Brinksmanship”
CIA coup in Iran – rise of The Shah
Death of Stalin
1954
SEATO created
Vietnam defeats France Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Conference division of Vietnam
“Domino Theory”
CIA coup in Guatemala overthrow of Arbenz
Army-McCarthy Hearings
McCarthy censured by Senate
1955
Warsaw Pact
Geneva Summit
“Open skies policy” & “spirit of Geneva”
1956
Interstate Highway Act
Suez Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev comes to power
Hungarian Revolt and crisis
1957
“Eisenhower Doctrine”
Sputnik
1958
National Defense and Education Act (NDEA)
Creation of NASA
2nd Berlin Crisis
Nixon attacked in Venezuela
US aid for Civil War in Lebanon
1959
Camp David Meeting
Nixon & Khrushchev’s “Kitchen Debate”
Castro’s Cuban Revolution
1960
U-2 Incident
Paris conference canceled
OPEC created
JFK Elected
1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall created
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
“hotline” created
1963
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
JFK’s “Flexible Response”
Special Forces sent to S. Vietnam