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HIST
3822
3 credits/Spring 2004
T/Th 11:15-12:30
Anderson 330
Professor
Barbara Welke
752 Social Sciences Bldg.
Office Hours:
T 1-3 pm (or by appt.)
tel: (612) 624-7017
welke004@tc.umn.edu
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Cold War
Timeline: 1944-1957
1944
- International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank
1945
- Conference
of Big Three at Yalta
- FDR dies;
Truman becomes President
- United
Nations Charter Signed
- U. S. Drops
Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 6, 9)
- WWII Ends
(Aug. 14)
1946
- Churchill's
Iron Curtain Speech
- Republicans
Win Control of U. S. Congress
1947
- Truman
Doctrine; Cong. Approp. $400M in Aid for Greece and Turkey
- National
Security Act (Dept. of Defense, National Security Council (NSC), CIA)
1948
- State of
Israel Founded
- Berlin
Blockade Begins
- Truman
Announces Peacetime Draft
- Truman
Wins Election
- Marshall
Plan
1949
- North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) founded
- Communists
led by Mao Zedong Take Power in China
- Berlin
Blockade Ends
- Soviet
Union Explodes Atomic Bomb
1950
- Soviet
Union & PRC Sign Alliances
- Adoption
of NSC-68
- Korean
War Begins
1951
- Truman
Dismisses General Douglas MacArthur
- Armistice
Talks Begin in Korea
1952
- U. S. Explodes
1st Hydrogen Bomb
- Eisenhower
Elected President (Nixon, V.P.)
1953
- Armistice
Ends Fighting in Korea
- Stalin
Dies; Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier
1954
- Warsaw
Pact Created
- French
Defeat at Dien Bien Phu
1957
- Soviet
Union Launches Sputnik (first space orbiting satellite)
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