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overthrow of the Guatemalan Government
Rebel/U.S. Government/Military victory Jacobo Árbenz was overthrown Guatemalan Revolution ended the Military junta and assumed power. The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, code-named Operation PBSuccess, was a covert operation carried out by the end of the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. The US overthrow the government because of the communist threat the country had posed to the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere. -
Greek Civil War
It began as a conflict between the communist-dominated left-wing resistance organization EAM-ELAS and loosely allied anti-communist resistance forces, and later escalated into a major Civil War between the Greek state and the communists. The kingdom won in the end. -
Enactment of Marrshell plan
The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II. resident Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The berlin aircraft was a 1940s military operation that supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city. -
Postwar occupation and divison of Germany
the occupying powers in both East and West Germany replaced their military governors with civilian leaders, and the occupations ended officially in the mid-1950s. Even so, both sides retained a strong interest in Germany, and the country and its capital remained divided throughout the Cold War. -
Chinese communist revolution
This is officially known as the Chineses people's War of Liberation in the people's republic. a group of revolutionaries in southern china led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system. -
Korean War
The war started because they wanted the spread of communism during the Cold War, American containment, and Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. This war lasted 3 years and had nearly 5 million casualties. The North invaded the southern borders due to clashes and rebellions on the southern side of Korea. -
Overthrow of the mossedegh Government in Iran
Mossadegh was kept under house arrest at his Ahmadabad residence, until his death on 5 March 1967. He was denied a funeral and was buried in his living room, despite his request to be buried in the public graveyard, beside the victims of the political violence on 30 Tir 1331 (21 July 1952). An invasion of allied British and Soviet troops who believed him to be sympathetic with the allies' enemy Nazi Germany. -
Cuban revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister. -
Formation of the Eastern Bloc
This was a collective term for the former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. These were the countries that were in control of the Soviet Union. They were also known as the second world during the Cold War time period. -
vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
Building the Berlin Wall
This was a wall built by the communist German government to separate East and West Berlin. The reason for the wall was to keep the population from scaping Soviet control over East Berlin to West Berlin. It divided the city into two physical and ideological contrasting zones in Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a 13 day-long standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, It was long and tense. It wasn't just political means but also military means. It was about the installations of the nuclear-armed soviet missile in Cuba, which was just 90 miles from the US shores. -
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring had proved that the Soviet Union was not willing to even contemplate any member of the Warsaw Pact leaving it. The tank that rolled through the streets of Prague reaffirmed to the West that the people of Eastern Europe were oppressed and denied the democracy that existed in Western Europe. -
Overthrow of the Allende government in Chile
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. The location of the overthrow is in Chile in 1973. Armed forces were put in the country under military order. -
Soviet War in Afganistan
The Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989) was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan. Even Dubček's modest steps away from hardcore communism offered reason enough for the Soviets to invade Czechoslovakia and abduct him. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The protests started on 15 April and were forcibly suppressed on 4 June when the government declared martial law and sent the People's Liberation Army to occupy parts of central Beijing. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded. The Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the June Fourth Incident in China, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. -
Fall of the berlin wall
The fall happened 5 days after a protest with over half a million gathered in East Berlin. This is one of the events that started the fall of communism in Berlin and throughout Germany. Although leaders tried to prevent the protesters from getting through they could not prevent that many people, thus creating the wall to be destroyed 5 days later. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia remained to find itself in a major trade deficit. -
9/11 Attacks
The attacks that happened were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks. The government responded with an immediate response to the attacks to rescue the survivors of the attacks. Around 3,000 people were killed in the attack.
