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The Cold War
Timeline
1945-1950 * The Marshall Plan * The Truman Doctrine-policy of containment * Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia * Berlin Blockade-Airlift * Korean Conflict 1951-1955 * Eisenhower-doctrine of Massive Retaliation * 3AD activated * West Germany enters NATO-doctrine of Forward Defense * Formation of the Warsaw Pact 1956-1960 * 3AD deploys to West Germany * Hungarian revolution crushed * Suez Crisis Alert * Lebanon crisis * Krushchev demands U.S. troops leave Berlin * Castro takes over in Cuba 1961-1965 * Bay of Pigs * Kennedy increases military budgets-presses for doctrine of Flexible Response * Berlin border closed-construction of Berlin Wall * Cuban Missile Crisis * JFK Assassination * Gulf of Tonkin Resolution-Vietnam War 1966-1970 * Vietnam War strips resources from USAREUR * Warsaw Pact troops crush Czech revolt * NATO adopts Flexible Response Doctrine * Willi Brandt's Ostpolitik-Detente 1971-1975 * SALT I * Nixon resigns * Vietnam War ends 1976-1989 * SALT II * Iranian Hostage Crisis * Ronald Reagan initiates massive build-up of U.S. Forces * Mikhail Gorbachev launches policy of openness in Soviet Union * Soviet empire collapses * Berlin Wall falls * CFE Treaty initiated-planning starts for reduction of conventional forces in Europe
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