Main events of war

1950

McCarthyism: Senator Joseph P. McCarthy delivers speech when he claims to have a list of "known" Communists

1952

Truman denounces McCarthy for "anti-Communist tactics."

1953

Josef Stalin dies

1958

Soviet Union suspends atmospheric nuclear testing.

United States and Britain suspend atmospheric testing.

1961

August 13 Berlin Wall Built

Soviet Union resumes atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.

1962

East-West Conference on Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests, begun in October 1958, collapses in deadlock at Geneva.

United States resumes atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.

1965

Vietnam: First U.S. Marines in Vietnam wade ashore at Da Nang.

1976

United States and Soviet Union sign peaceful nuclear explosions treaty limiting size and nature of underground nuclear tests.