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Postwar occupation and division of Germany
The Post war divided Germany into different Occupation zones. Along with the Soviet Union extending the Elba and French zone being carved out of the Anglo- American spheres. -
Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War was a two stage conflict that the Greek communists unsuccessfully tried to gain control of Greece. The war had killed over 158,000 people. And ended on 1949. -
Enactment of Marshall Plan
Its also known as European Recovery Program, It was enacted in 1948 It provided foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution also known as the People's War of Liberation in the peoples Republic of China. The revolutions culminated with the Chinese Civil War as the People's Liberation Army decisively defeated the Republic of China Army which then brought an end to over two decades of intermittent warfare between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade and Airlift was one of the first national crisis during the Cold War. During this time Germany had the Soviet Union block the Western Allies. But by spring the Soviet Unions Blockade had failed. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea and the republic of South Korea in which at least 2.5 million people lost their lives. The U.S. the People's Republic of China, North Korea and South Korea agreed to an armistice, bring the fight to an end on July 27, 1953. -
Cuban Revolution
The Cuba Revolution (1953-1959) was an armed revolt in the mid-1950's. The revolt took place between 1953 and 1959. Batista was finally removed from office on January 1, 1959. It was led by Fidel Castro against the government of Fulgencio Batista. -
Formation of the Eastern Bloc
The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc. Which was a communist group that stated the central and Eastern Europe during the cold war. It al started by invading several countries as the Soviet Socialist Republicans by agreement with the Nazi Germany in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was very long, costly and divisive conflict that had pitted the communist government of the North Vietnam against the South along with its principal ally, the United States. -
Hungarian uprising
The Hungarian uprising was a spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary, Thousands of people were killed and wounded. the protest began about their lack of basic political freedoms like voting and freedom of speech. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an abortive invasion of Cuba. Over 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government. It was a failed landing operation. It had ended April 20, 1961. -
Building the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War, it was built to keep the so called Western Fascists from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state. It served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was led by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Engaged in a tense 13 day political and military stand off. On October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. Which then ended on October 28, 1962. -
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring was a strong attempt by Dubcek to grant additional rights to the citizens of Czechoslovakia in act of partial decentralization of the economy and democratization. The freedoms granted included a loosening of restrictions on the media, speech and travel. -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
The USSR saw Afghanistan as strategically advantageous geographically and wanted to take control over the territory, either by force or by diplomacy. -
Solidarity Movement in Poland
Solidarity was a broad anti-authoritarian social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change. Government attempts in the early 1980s to destroy the union through the imposition of martial law in Poland and the use of political repression failed. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protested student-led demonstrations calling for democracy which was free speech and a free press in China. They were halted in a very crucial and bloody break down, known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, by the Chinese government on June 4-5, 1989. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall had occurred on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. Over half a million had gathered in East Berlin in a protest. East German leaders had tried to calm them by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration. within the Union and resulted the end of the country's and the federal governments existence as a sovereign state. The cause for the fall was because it was Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi party system to create a presidency for the Soviet Union which began to slow the process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and which then contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
9/11 Attacks
The 9/11 was a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks, Nineteen terrorists from al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes. Crashing two of the planes into the upper floors of the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex and a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington. 2,753 people were killed in this time.it had happened on 9/11 2001 at 8:46 am.