Editing 1950 (section)

== Events ==
* February 8 - The [[Stasi]] is founded to serve as the [[secret police]] of East Germany.
* February 9 - In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.
* February 14 - The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is signed by the [[Communist Party of China]] and the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].
* April 8 - In the first shootdown of an American military aircraft by the Soviet Union during the [[Cold War]], two Soviet Lavochkin La-11 fighters intercepted and downed a U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer surveillance plane that was flying over or near the Latvian SSR with ten men on board, the first of over 350 American servicemen lost in Cold War missions.
* June 25 - North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the [[Korean War]].
* July 25 - [[Walter Ulbricht]] is named First Secretary of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]].
* July 26 to 29 - The [[No Gun Ri Massacre]] takes place.
* October 12 - The [[Pathet Lao]] is founded.
* December 1 - [[Richard Nixon]] is elected to the United States Senate.