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Time line, 1950s


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25.6.1950 North Korean troops invade South Korea. Start of the Korea War.

3.10.1952 First UK atom bomb test

1.11.1952 First US hydrogene bomb test. Eniwetok atoll, South Pacific.

4.11.1952 D.Eisenhower defeats A.Stevenson in presidental elections in the US

5.3.1953 Stalin dies

17.6.1953 Labour workers stand-up in East Berlin

27.6.1953 End of the Korean War

12.9.1953 Khrushchev becomes the Chairman of the Communistic Party

9.5.1955 West Germany enters NATO

14.5.1955 Forming of the Warshaw Pact

14.2.1956 The 20th summit of the CPSU. Later, February 25, Khrushchev's allegations of Stalin's reign

17.4.1956 Informbyro dismissed

4.10.1956 Soviet army enters Budapest

6.10.1956 Eisenhower re-elected president

23.10.1956 Hungarian stand-up starts

31.10.1956 - 7.11.1956 British-French offense in Suez

15.2.1957 Gromyko named Minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR

4.10.1957 USSR announced the release of Sputnik 1

16.2.1959 Castro becames prime minister of Cuba

15.9.1959 Krushchev starts his visit to the USA



 

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