Events
1945 President Truman was elected1946 Truman's Containment Policy1950 Korean War1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower Elected1953 Hydrogen bomb was tested1954 Communist party banned1954 West germany joins NATO1947 Marshall Plan1957 Sputnick U.S.S.R1961 John F. Kennedy Elected1961 Military build up1961 Peace corps1961 Berlin was built1961 The Bay of pigs invasion1968 USA launched the Apollo 8 Manned Moon Orbit1961 Checkpoint Charlie Incident a between U.S. and Soviet tanks at the Berlin Wall1962 CIA reports that photographs reveal the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.1963 US president John F. Kennedy is assassinated1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson1964 China tests first atomic weapon1965 US combat troops begin arriving in Vietnam1965 US forces invade the Dominican Republic1968 Five nations sign the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN)1969 President Richard Nixon1972 US president Richard Nixon visits to China1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty1974 US president Richard Nixon resigns after the Watergate scandal1974 President Gerald R. Ford1976 Death of Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong1975 Communist groups seize power in African nations1976 A military junta overthrows Argentine president Isabel Peron1979 President James Carter1979 president Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-II treatyPeriods
Cold War
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