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World War I
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Russian Revolution makes world's first communist country
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Tuva becomes communist
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Mongolia becomes communist
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World War II
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USSR invades Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and establishes communism
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Yugoslavia goes communist
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The USSR establishes a puppet communist state in Poland; North Korea goes communist
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Albania goes communist; the USSR establishes a puppet communist state in Bulgaria
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The Cold War
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The USSR establishes a puppet communist state in Romania
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USSR-backed coup in Czechoslovakia establishes a communist state
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The USSR creates East Germany as a puppet communist state; the USSR establishes a puppet communist state in Hungary; China goes communist
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China invades Tibet and establishes communism
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The Red Scare
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Korean War
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North Vietnam is established as a communist state
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Vietnam War
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The Space Race
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Guinea goes communist
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Cuba goes communist
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Yemen goes communist
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Detente
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Kenya goes communist; Sudan goes communist
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Congo goes communist
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Burma goes communist
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Angola, Benin, Cape Verde, Laos, Kampuchea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Sao Tome & Principe goes communist; South Vietnam is conquered by North Vietnam and becomes communist
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Somalia goes communist
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Seychelles goes communist
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A USSR-backed coup in Afghanistan establishes a communist state
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Grenada goes communist; Nicaragua goes communist
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Soviet-Afghan War
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US invasion ends communism in Grenada
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Guinea ends communism
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Sudan ends communism
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Burma ends communism
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Hungary, Poland, Romania ends communism
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Benin, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Yemen ends communism; East Germany ends communism and reunites with capitalist democratic West Germany
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Gulf War
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1991 - USSR ends communism and dissolves; Kampuchea, Sao Tome & Principe, Somalia ends communism
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1992 - Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Congo, Madagascar, Mongolia, Seychelles, Yugoslavia ends communism