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March 1948
West unifies East follows
5th April 1948
Soviet and GB plane collidesw
April 1948
Mini Blockade
24th April 1948
Full Blockade
26th June 1948
400 tonnes/3mins/day
April 1949
NATO
15th April 1949
Easter Parade
12th May 1949
End of Blockade
23ird May 1949
FDR
October 1949
GDR
1955
Warsaw Pact
1949 (2)
Kim asks Stalin to help him invade South Korea
1950
Stalin agrees to send equipment but no troops
June 1950
North Korea invades South Korea
September 1950
USA lands in Inchon drives them back to the 38th parallel
October 1950
China takes Seoul
April 1951
General MacArthur dismissed after calling for nuclear arms
UN's response to the Korean War
Votes to withdraw North Korean soldiers UN sends troops to support Rhee's government
June/July 1953
Ceasefire War reaches stalemate
4th October 1957
USSR sends 1st manmade satellite into orbit round Earth
3ird November 1957
USSR sends 1st animal into space: Laika the dog
18th December 1958
USA sends 1st communications satellite
12th April 1961
USSR sends the 1st man into space: Yuri Gagarin
25th May 1961
Kennedy announces that before the end of the decade they will have put a man on the moon
5th May 1961
USA sends 1st human-controlled spaceship into space Alan Shepard
16th June 1963
USSR sends 1st woman into space: Valentina Tereshkova
20th July 1964
USA puts a man on the moon Neil Armstrong
23ird April 1971
USSR 1st human-crewed spaceship
15th July 1975
Apollo-Soyuz
1st October 1949
China becomes communist
1954
France withdraws from Vietnam After Battle of Bien Phu
July 1954
Vietnam splits in two
December 1954
Vietcong aim to overthrow Diem Ho Chi Minh trail established to get weapons and equipment to the rebels in the North
1960
Kennedy sends 16,000 experts
2nd November 1963
Diem assassinated
