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a meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt
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Western observers decried the virtually bloodless communist coup as an example of Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe.
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President Truman announced to the nation and the world that America would intervene in the Korean conflict in order to prevent the conquest of an independent nation by communism.
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West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. a mutual defense group aimed at containing Soviet expansion in Europe.
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Sputnik 1 was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses.
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Lebanon crisis was a Lebanese political crisis caused by political and religious tensions in the country that included a U.S. military intervention.
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On February 16, 1959, Fidel Castro is sworn in as prime minister of Cuba after leading a guerrilla campaign that forced right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile.
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during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace.
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a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba.
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John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to have a direct phone line to the Kremlin in Moscow.
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fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
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The fall of South Vietnam came in 1975, almost three years after the withdrawal of most US combat troops.
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a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.
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Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed
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When President Jimmy Carter took office in January 1977, he inherited a unique relationship with the shah of Iran, who had been returned to his throne by a U.S.-British covert action and who had accepted the role of protecting U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf.
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occurred during the Lebanese Civil War when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces
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Capping his rapid rise through the Communist Party hierarchy, Mikhail Gorbachev is selected as the new general secretary and leader of the Soviet Union,
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev indicates that his nation is ready to sign “without delay” a treaty designed to eliminate U.S. and Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe.
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head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall.
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the first Russian President, surrounded by defenders of the Russian government headquarters during the failed hard-line Communist coup attempt
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Even the reformed "Socialist" leaders who have come back to power in recent elections in Poland and Hungary
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the Commission recommended to close negotiations with Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
