1945 - ____ (tensions between US & USSR have already begun) 1946 - ____ introduce the idea of containment 1947 - ____ - promises aid to countries in danger of communist revolutions 1948 - ____ - promises $ to help Europe rebuild 1948 - 1949 - ____ - US attempts to keep Berlin from "falling" to communism 1949 - ____ - China becomes communist 1950 - ____ - US increases military spending dramatically 1951 - ____ - suspected nuclear spies, executed in 1953 1950 - 1953 - ____ - US supports South Korea, China supports N. Korea 1950 - 1954 - ____ - Senate hearings about suspected communists 1953 - CIA overthrows the ____ Prime Minister & supports the Shah 1957 - ____ launches (Space Race begins) 1959 - ____ - Castro takes over Cuba 1961 - ____ - failed attempt to overthrow Castro 1961 - ____- it divided Berlin & a symbol of Communism 1962 - ____ - closest the US & USSR ever come to nuclear war 1963 - ____ was ratified 1964 - ____- American war in Vietnam starts 1965 - US troops arrive in ____ 1968 - ____major turning point in the American war in Vietnam. 1969 - ____ - US puts a man on the moon (winning the Space Race!) 1972 - Nixon visits ____ - detente politics 1972 - ____ arms treaty signed 1973 - ____ (US withdraws from Vietnam) 1975 - ____ and fall of Saigon 1979 - Iranian ____ & USSR invades ____ -detente crumbles 1983 - Reagan's ____speech & Strategic Defense Initiative, aka "Star Wars" 1986 - ____-Reagan & Gorbachev agree to remove a whole class of missiles 1989 - ____ "falls" 1991 - ____dissolves ending the Cold War

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