Cold War Timeline
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Updated: 2 Feb 2021
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Created byJack O'Neill
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Winston Churchill warns of the descent of an "Iron Curtain" across Europe.President Harry Truman announces the Truman Doctrine starting with the giving of aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent them from falling into the Soviet Sphere.Senator Joseph McCarthy first claims without evidence that Communists have infiltrated the US State Department, leading to a controversial series of anti-communist investigations in the United States.John F. Kennedy becomes President of the United States.North Vietnam wins the Vietnam War.During a visit to Berlin, Germany, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in a speech: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"Soviet reforms have allowed Eastern Europe to change the Communist governments there. The Berlin Wall is breached when Politburo spokesman, Günter Schabowski, not fully informed of the technicalities or procedures of the newly agreed lifting of travel restrictions, mistakenly announces at a news conference in East Berlin that the borders have been opened.The KGB is created as the successor agency of the NKVD.The U.S. Army launches Explorer 1, the first American artificial satellite.President Truman orders for world's first military use of an atomic bomb on Japanese city, Hiroshima.
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