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The Chinese Civil War (1927–1950) was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China
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organization founded in 1945 to promote peace
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Economic and foreign policy that offered aid to Western European countries after World War II Early 1948
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President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements March 12, 1947
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North Alantic Treaty Organization April 4, 1949
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The Korean War between North Korea and U.S.-backed South Korea, which lasted from 1950 to 1953 and was the first Cold War military action.
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On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote to be lead troops in Korea
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The Vietnam War (1959-1975) was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government
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The Guatemalan Civil War ran from 1960 to 1996. It was mostly fought between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups
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1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles
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1962 conflict bewteen the U.S and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba
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1963 nuclear- weapons agreement, which prohibited aboveground nuclear tests
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1964 Congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit U.S troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam
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Coorinated communist assualt on a large number of South Vietnamesse cities in early 1968
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On February 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon arrived in China for an official trip. He was the first U.S. president to visit the People's Republic of China
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The end of the Cold War. When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985, no one predicted the revolution he would bring.
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991,
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In 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty.
