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Eastern Bloc emerged after WWLL when soviet influence after WWLL when soviet influenced spread across eastern Europe. Conditions were ripe from communist regimes to take hold. -
Germany was divided into east and west after the war. the allies occupied the western zones while the soviets controlled the east. Totally set the stage for the cold ware divide -
two-stage conflict during which Greek communists unsuccessfully tried to gain control of Greece. The first stage of the civil war began only months before Nazi Germany's occupation of Greece ended in October 1944. -
The Marshal plan was US providing major economic aid to rebuild western Europe after WWII from 1948-1951. it helped prevent communist parties from graining power and strengthen their between the US and western allies. -
the Berlin Blockade was a major Cold War crisis from 1948-1949. the soviets blocked allied access to west Berlin, so the US and Britain airlifted supplies in an amazing logistical effort. shoed their resolve aggression. -
the Chinese Communist Revolution led by Mao Zedong succeeded in 1949 establishing the Peoples Republic of China. this was a major blow to US efforts to step the spread of communism after WWII. -
The Korean war started in 1950 when communist North Korea invade south Korea. The US and UN forces fought to defend the South. it ended in 1952 with Korea still divided, solidifying the Cold War standoff between the US and Communist powers. -
North Vietnam wanted to reunite the country under Communism, its political and economic system. South Vietnam fought to keep this from happening. The United States helped South Vietnam, but North Vietnam won the war in 1975. Soon Vietnam was a united, Communist country.
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet. -
In 1959, Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces overthrew the US-backed government in Cuba. this established a communist regime just 90 miles from Florida. it was a major victory for the Soviet sphere of influence in the Cold War. -
In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. The confrontation that followed, known as the Cuban missile crisis, brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles. -
The decision was taken to build a Wall. Work began in the early hours of 13 August 1961. The Berlin Wall became the symbol of the Cold War and a tangible manifestation of the world's separation into two distinct ideological blocs. Map from the era, illustrating Berlin's division between the Allied forces. -
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
The Prague Spring reforms were a strong attempt by Dubček to grant additional rights to the citizens of Czechoslovakia in an act of partial decentralization of the economy and democratization. The freedoms granted included a loosening of restrictions on the media, speech and travel. -
In the 1980s, Solidarity was a broad anti-authoritarian social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change. The Government attempted in the early 1980s to destroy the union through the imposition of martial law in Poland and the use of political repressions. -
In 1989, Tiananmen Square was the site of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in which the People's Liberation Army cracked down on a student protest on the square that had the stated purpose of calling for political liberalization and greater respect for human rights, killing an unknown number of people. -
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. In April 1978 Afghanistan's centrist government, headed by Pres -
The fall of the Wall marked the first critical step towards German reunification, which formally concluded a mere 339 days later on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of East Germany and the official reunification of the German state along the democratic lines of the West German Basic Law. -
The unsuccessful August 1991 coup against Gorbachev sealed the fate of the Soviet Union. Planned by hard-line Communists, the coup diminished Gorbachev's power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian politics. -
The hijacked Flight 11 was crashed into floors 93 to 99 of the North Towe at 8:46 a.m. The hijacked Flight 175 struck floors 77 to 85 of the South Tower 17 minutes later at 9:03 a.m. When the towers were struck, between 16,400 and 18,000 people were in the WTC complex.