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(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 -
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. -
Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall -
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War june 24-may 14. -
decided, would divide Germany into occupation zones, with the Soviet zone extending to the Elbe and a French zone -
June 25, 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel -
Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. -
the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi -
Operation PBSuccess, was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo -
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. -
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. -
countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR. -
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete -
also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare -
a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. -
military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. -
a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups -
The Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the June Fourth Incident in China, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square -
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. -
the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. -
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.