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UNIT TEN
COLD WAR FOREIGN POLICY: 1945-1963
EXPLORING CONTEXT
timeline
1947
Truman Doctrine is issued, protecting Greece and Turkey from “Communist Aggression”
1948
Berlin Airlift begins, supplying food, resources and toys to West Berliners.
1950-1953
The Korean War.
1957
The USSR launches Sputnik.
1960
USSR shoots down American spy plane and captures Francis Gary Powers.
1961
The Bay of Pigs invasion
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
Kennedy is assassinated.
- Post-War Problems
- Post-War Organizations: WHO, World Bank, GATT, IMF, UN
- Yalta Conference
- Satellite Nations
- Iron Curtain
- Containment
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- Berlin Blockade and Airlift
- NATO and Warsaw Pact
- China Falls to Communism
- The Korean War
- End of the Korean War
- Brinkmanship & Massive Retaliation
- The Nuclear Triad
- Brinkmanship in Action: Taiwan, Vietnam, North Africa
- Communism Builds in Vietnam
- Geneva Conference
- The Domino Theory
- SEATO
- Israel and the Suez Crisis
- The Eisenhower Doctrine
- The CIA in Action: Iran, Guatemala
- Sputnik
- Nikita Khrushchev
- The U-2 Incident
- The Cuban Revolution
- Election of 1960
- Flexible Response
- The Peace Corps
- Alliance for Progress
- The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- The Berlin Wall
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Problems in Vietnam Escalate
- Kennedy's Assassination
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