Cold War

  • Communist sieze power in poland

    Communist sieze power in poland

    Ukranians came in and took over Poland.
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    NATO was an intergovernmental military alliance.
  • Berlin Airlift ends

    Berlin Airlift ends

    Soviet Union had blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access.
  • China Civil War

    China Civil War

    Communists win Chinese Civil War.
  • U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government

    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government

    The CIA helped to overthrow the Iranian government.
  • Guatemalan Government

    Guatemalan Government

    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

    Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

    international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    the warsaw pact was a collective defense treaty with eight communist states.
  • Soviets launch first man made satellite

    Soviets launch first man made satellite

    Sputnik 1 was launched.
  • Meeting

    Meeting

    First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
  • Berlin  Wall

    Berlin Wall

    East Germany builds Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Confrontaiton between the United States and the Soviet Union with having missiles in Cuba.
  • China

    China

    China explodes its first atomic bomb.
  • United States and the Dominican Republic

    United States and the Dominican Republic

    U.S. sends troops to the Dominican Republic
  • Red Army

    Red Army

    Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising.