NSC-68 secret memorandum
1950 · Event
US National Security Council report defines containment strategy for the Cold War.
On these timelines: Cold War, Master, The Korean War
More from Cold War
- Solidarity movement in Poland (1980)
- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
- Iron Curtain speech (1946)
Around 1950
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)