Timeline of Events in The Cold War - 1950s - 1951

1951

• January 4: Chinese soldiers capture Seoul.
• March 14: United Nations forces recapture Seoul during Operation Ripper. By the end of March, they have reached the 38th Parallel, and formed a defensive line across the Korean peninsula
• March 29: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II.
• April 11: US President Harry S. Truman fires Douglas MacArthur from command of US forces in Korea.
• April 23: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested in Czechoslovakia for alleged espionage.
• April 18: The European Coal and Steel Community is formed by the Treaty of Paris.
• July 4: American journalist William N. Oatis receives a ten-year sentence in Czechoslovakia on an espionage charge.
• September 1: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States sign the ANZUS Treaty. This compels the three countries to cooperate on matters of defense and security in the Pacific.
• September 20: Greece and Turkey join NATO.
• October 10: President Harry S. Truman signs the Mutual Security Act, announcing to the world, and its communist powers in particular, that the U.S. was prepared to provide military aid to "free peoples."
• November 14: President Harry Truman asks Congress for U.S. military and economic aid for the communist nation of Yugoslavia.
• December 12: The International Authority for the Ruhr lifted part of the remaining restrictions on German industrial production and on production capacity.