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Mao declared China a communist country
During the Cold War, China and the Soviet Union were clearly allies, but their perspectives were radically different. China took a more rural communist approach, believing that peasants were communism's future, whereas the Soviet Union took a more urban and industrialized one. -
The Berlin blockade
It was the closure of the shared boundaries between the UK and the US and the Soviet Union in occupied German territory. -
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Confrontation
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Division of Korea into two parts
North Korea became communist under the Soviet Union's dictatorship, while South Korea became democratic under the leadership of the United States. They are still separated into these parts now. -
Vietnam war
Vietnam was split into two factions: communists in the north and noncommunists in the south. The North Vietnamese army was moved and the entire Vietnamese country was consolidated by the North Vietnamese. Because there was a non-state group in the south called the Viet Cong, they won a lot of ground against the south. The United States, on the other hand, went to Vietnam to battle the North Vietnamese Army. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Off the coast of Florida, Soviet Union chose to send nuclear weapons to Cuba. The United States retaliated by publishing a public statement claiming that this is what had happened, as well as establishing a naval quarantine, or blockade, surrounding Cuba to halt any forward movement. The Soviet Union retaliated by attempting to break the blockade—to force its way through it. And the US retaliated by firing bullets over their bow. As a result, it did not immediately reach the Soviet Union. -
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Dentente
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China and Soviet Union real split
Mao aspired to see China as the world's greatest communist power, rather than the world's second-greatest communist state. As a result, Mao begins to criticize the Soviet leadership in the 1950s and 1960s, continuing until the 1970s, when the major break occurs. -
The US army pulled out of Vietnam
The US pulled out of Vietnam after signing an armistice with the North Vietnamese. Soon after, the North Vietnamese launched an invasion on the South Vietnamese and seized control of the entire country. Vietnam was also regarded as a communist country. -
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Rapprochment
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The Soviet Union face economic problems
The Soviet Union had been spending so much money on arms rather than developing an economy that severe economic issues were beginning to emerge. -
President Reagan talks to American citizens
"I am going to build the world's most advanced defense system," Reagan declared, "such that no nuclear strike from the Soviet Union can ever be possible against the United States." -
Fall of Berlin wall
Ordinary people began to arrive from western and eastern Berlin, breaking down the walls and then climbing over them, meeting with cousins and family members they hadn't seen in decades because they had been forbidden from crossing them. And the Soviet Union was complicit. -
Formal dissolution of the Soviet Union