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chinese communist revolution
(1945-1949) as the People's Liberation Army decisively defeated the Republic of China Army, bringing an end to over two decades of intermittent warfare -
greek civil war
The Greek Civil War took place between 1943 to 1949. It was mainly fought against the established Kingdom of Greece. The Kingdom won in the end. -
Enactment of marshall plan
Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall -
berlin blockade and airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War june 24-may 14. -
postwar occupation & division of germany
decided, would divide Germany into occupation zones, with the Soviet zone extending to the Elbe and a French zone -
korean war
June 25, 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel -
cuban revolution
Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. -
overthrow of the mossadegh government in iran
the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi -
overthrow of the guatemalan gov.
Operation PBSuccess, was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo -
Formation of the eastern bloc
the Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc (the group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War) by invading and then annexing several countries as Soviet Socialist Republics by agreement with Nazi Germany in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. -
vietnam war
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. -
hungarian uprising
countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR. -
bay of pigs invasion
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
building the berlin wall
the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete -
cuban missile crisis
also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare -
prague spring
a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. -
overthrow of allende government in chile
military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. -
soviet war in afghanistan
a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups -
tiananmen sqare massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the June Fourth Incident in China, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square -
fall of the berlin wall
five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. -
fall of the soviet union
the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. -
9/11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States.