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Mao Zedong takes control of China
The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. It was the culmination of over two decades of civil and international war. From 1954 to 1959, Mao was the Chairman of the PRC -
Korean War
The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union -
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Vietnam war
he United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. -
Soviet invades hungary
Soviet troops occupied all of the country and through their influence Hungary gradually became a communist satellite state of the Soviet Union -
Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba
As discontent over the Batista coup grew, Castro abandoned his law practice and formed an underground organization of supporters -
bay of pigs invasion
was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA -trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. -
Cuban missile crisis
cuba thhreatened the US with missiles by fidel castro -
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet Russia invades Czechoslovakia. -
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Civil War in Nicaragua
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Nixon Visits China
Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit China -
Revolution of Iran
The revolution was unusual for the surprise it created throughout the world it lacked many of the customary causes of revolution -
Soviet invasion of Afghanisdtan
he Soviet War in Afghanistan was a ten-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan at their own request against the Islamist Mujahideen Resistance -
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Iran-Iraq war
The war began when Iraq invaded Iran, launching a simultaneous invasion by air and land into Iranian territory on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes -
Mikhail Gorbachev takes control of USSR
he worked his way through the gov to the point where he made a political party and took over russia -
Fall of the Berlin wall
Hungary removed its physical border defences with Austria, and in September more than 13,000 East German tourists in Hungary escaped to Austria.[60] This set up a chain of events.