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