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Apr. 4, 1949: The NATO
treaty is signed. |
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July 14, 1949: The USSR
explodes its first
atomic bomb. |
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Oct. 1, 1949: The Communist
Party completes its triumph in the Chinese
Civil War, as Mao Zedong assumes power. |
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early 1950: adoption of NSC
68, which, in many ways served as the ideological basis for
the Cold War. |
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June 27, 1950: start of the
Korean War. As the Truman administration itself struggled to
understand the first
week of action, the CIA
did not underestimate the difficulty of the task. |
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late 1950: decision to build the
H-bomb--H-bomb
time line, visual
images of the effects of the H-bomb. |
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East Central Asia at the dawn of the Korean War |
East Central Asia at the dawn of the Korean War