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| 1949 |
| | | Mao Zedong, standing on the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, proclaims the new People's Republic of China | |
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| 1949 May 30 |
| | | The USSR grants nominal independence to east Germany as the newly established German Democratic Republic | |
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| 1950 |
| | | A witch hunt begins when Senator Joseph McCarthy says he knows the names of 205 Communists in the US State Department | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Joseph Stalin dies, four days after suffering a stroke | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Imre Nagy becomes prime minister of Hungary, but is driven out of office two years later by hard-line Communists because of his relative liberalism | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The first Soviet hydrogen bomb is successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Senator McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt is broadcast live for several weeks on US television | |
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| 1954 |
| | | J. Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb', is investigated for Communist sympathies and his security clearance is withdrawn | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The term Domino Theory is coined to reflect President Eisenhower's view of how states might fall to Communism | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Russia forms the Warsaw Treaty Organization (or Warsaw Pact) with her east European allies, as a counterbalance to NATO | |
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