1  1944 – Soviets liberate Poland

2  1944 – Declaration of Liberated Europe

3  1944-45 – Division of Germany
4  Feb 1945 – Yalta conference
5  March 1945 – Soviets support communist gov’t in Romania
6  1945 – Truman meets with Soviet foreign diplomat
7  1945 – Red Scare begins
8  July 1945 – Potsdam conference
9  Feb 22, 1946 – Long Telegram
10  March 5, 1946 – Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
11  March 1946 – Iran Crisis
12  1946 – Soviets try to take control of the port of Dardanelles
13  1946 – Greek communists launch guerilla warfare against established gov’t
14  1946 – McCarthy accuses an opponent of being communist
15  Feb 1947 – Britain runs out of resources to support Greece
16  March 12, 1947 – Truman Doctrine
17  March 21, 1947 – Loyalty Review Program
18  June 1947 – Marshall Plan
19  1947 -- HUAC
20  Early 1948 – US, UK, FR create West Germany+Berlin
21  1948 – Soviet blockade of West Berlin prompts Berlin airlift
22  May 12, 1948 – blockade ends
23  1948 – OAS is formed
24  1948 – Time magazine accuses several officials of being communist
25  1949 – communists capture Beijing
26  Aug 1949 – US stops giving aid to Nationalists
27  Sept 1949 – USSR tests first atomic bomb
28  Oct 1949 – People’s Republic of China is formed
29  Early 1950 – Soviet-Sino treaty
30  Feb 1950, McCarthy’s speech on the Red Scare
31  1950 – US aids Japan’s economy
32  1950 – McCarran Act
33  June 25, 1950 – North Korea invades South Korea
34  Sept 15, 1950 – Military commanded by MacArthur invades Korea
35  Sept 28, 1950 – UN forces liberate Seoul
36  Oct 19, 1950 – UN invades Pyonyang
37  Nov 26, 1950 – China enters Korean War
38  1951 – Guzman becomes president of Guatamala (communist)
39  April 1951 – Truman fires MacArthur
40  Mid 1951 – UN pushes back China
41  Nov 1951 – Peace negotiations begin
42  1951 – I Was A Communist For The FBI, Walk East on Beacon – anti-communist films +
43 books are published
44  1952 – Republicans gain control of Congress
45  Dec 1952 – Eisenhower goes to Korea
46  1952 – US successfully tests H-bomb
47  1953 – USSR successfully tests H-bomb
48  July 27, 1953 – Armistice line is established in Korea
49  1953 – U.S. puts the Shah of Iran, who the Iranians detest, in power
50  1954 – Tomorrow! (anti-communist film/book)
51  1954 – McCarthyism ends
52  1954 – Taiwan Crisis
53  1955 – B-22 Bomber + ICBMs
54  1955 – Suez Crisis
55  1956 – Nikita Khrushchev assumes power
56  June 1956 – riots in Eastern Europe after US undermines communism by broadcasting
57 Khrushchev’s “secret” speech
58  Oct 1956 – uprising in Hungary
59  Oct 4, 1957 – Sputnik
60  1958 – NASA is formed
61  1958 – NDEA is formed
62  1958 – U.S. threatens Russia with nuclear weapons after Khrushchev demands US,FR,
63 and UK to get out of Berlin
64  May 1, 1960 – Francis Gary Powers in the U2 incident
65  1961 – Eisenhower farewell address

66 TOTAL: (65 - 3) = 62