Cold War - The cold war was a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United Sates without involving direct military conflict.
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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. -
Overthrow of the Guatemalan government
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, code-named Operation PBSuccess, was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954 -
Enactment of the Marshal Plan
On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
Postwar occupation and division of Germany
After the war Germany would get divided into different zones, The soviets controlled the west, the U.S, France and Great Brittan controlled the east. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1949 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. The US used airplanes to get to the other side. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Launched by Mao, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China, its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society -
Korean War
North Korea attacked South Korea on June 25, 1950, igniting the Korean War. Cold War assumptions governed the immediate reaction of US leaders, who instantly concluded that Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin had ordered the invasion as the first step in his plan for world conquest. “Communism,” -
Cuban Revolution
Returning to Cuba, 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. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister. -
Formation of the Eastern Bloc
A the start of World War II, the Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc ,which is 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
China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The US was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government. -
Hungarian uprising
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Building the Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete Wall between East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Prague Spring
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The Prague Spring reforms were a strong attempt by Dubček to grant additional rights to the citizens of Czechoslovakia in an 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 Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahedeen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
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 of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, preceded by the Solidarity Movement in Poland. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state. -
9/11 Attacks
The 9/11 attacks, were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States.