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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1945

  • End of World War II; Yalta and Potsdam conferences

  • Senate approves U.S. participation in United Nations
1946

  • George F. Kennan outlines containment policy

  • U.S. sides with French in war between French and Vietminh over control of Vietnam
1947

  • Truman Doctrine

  • House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigates film industry
1948

  • Communist coup in Czechoslovakia

  • Marshall Plan aids economic recovery in Europe

  • State of Israel created

  • Stalin blockades West Berlin; Berlin Airlift begins
1949

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) founded

  • Soviet Union detonates atomic bomb

  • Mao Zedong establishes People’s Republic of China
1950–1953

  • Korean War
1950

  • NSC-68 leads to nuclear buildup

  • Joseph McCarthy announces “list” of Communists in government
1952

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president
1954

  • Army-McCarthy hearings on army subversion

  • Geneva Accords partition Vietnam
1956

  • Nikita Khrushchev emerges as Stalin’s successor

  • Suez Canal crisis
1960

  • John F. Kennedy elected president
1961

  • Kennedy orders the first contingent of Special Forces (“Green Berets”) to Vietnam
1963

  • Diem assassinated in South Vietnam

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: What turning points and crises defined American containment policy between 1946 and 1953? Explain your answer with evidence from the timeline and chapter.