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Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations

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  • 1953–1960: Entrenchment of a Bi-Polar Foreign Policy
  • Dien Bien Phu & the Fall of French Indochina, 1954
  • The East German Uprising, 1953
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 1954
  • The Taiwan Straits Crises: 1954–55 and 1958
  • U.S.-China Ambassadorial Talks, 1955–1970
  • The Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955
  • Bandung Conference (Asian-African Conference), 1955
  • Khrushchev and the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, 1956
  • The Suez Crisis, 1956
  • Sputnik, 1957
  • The Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957
  • The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1961
  • U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960

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