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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Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb', is investigated for Communist sympathies and his security clearance is withdrawn | |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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| 1956 |
| | Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin, dead now for three years, at a party congress in the USSR | |
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| 1956 |
| | Students are fired on in Budapest when protesting against repressive Communist policies | |
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