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Formation of the Eastern Bloc
The United States used its power to try to protect existing democratic governments around the world. The Soviet Union, using the influence it had gained through the war, established and enforced communist rule and created an alliance of countries on its eastern borders that stood as a buffer between the Western world and itself a formation that became known as the Eastern Bloc -
Post War Occupation and division of Germany
The total breakdown of civil administration throughout the country required immediate measures to ensure the rebuilding of civil authority. This helped men and women get jobs and a place to live. -
Greek Civil War
The greek civil war was fought in Greece from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army—backed by the United Kingdom and the United States—and the Democratic Army of Greece. Greek communist tried to gain control to spread communism. -
Enactment of the Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
Chinese Communists Revolution
Chinese Republic declared that they are a communist country and that they believe that communism is the best way to rule your country and that democracy is a poor way to rule a country. -
Korean War
conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of north Korea and the Republic of south Korea in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. -
Cuban Revolution
The revolution was so that Fidel Castro can rule Cuba and take over Fulgencio Batista. Also so he can have a lot of military power. -
Vietnam War
a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Vietnam Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Called the “American War” in Vietnam -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Building the Berlin Wall
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight, on 13 August 1961. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
n October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. We were scared that they were gonna use these bombs and we wouldn't have enough time to prepare or fire back. -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. The soviet union wanted this land because it would spread communism and they could have a bigger army. -
Berlin Blockade and airlift
which the Soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the Allies, the Soviet occupation forces in eastern Germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between Berlin and the West. The USSR didn't want us as allies anymore. In the end we still got supplies to the people and the USSR reopened the gates -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. At the time this was one of the worst massacres to have ever happen -
Fall Out of the Berlin Wall
After the USSR opened the gates People started coming over to our side of the wall. We eventually had the USSR take the wall down because they wanted everyone to feel safe and also to repopulate everywhere. -
Fall Out of the Soviet Union
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
