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Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
This Civil War was fought between two froces in which one was government led and the other was led by the communist party. This all statred in August of 1927. This war ended up resulting in two different factors of China, -
Korean War
This happened when the Soviet UNion declared war against Japan and agreement by the United States. The United States had occupid the north and the when on to occupie the south so the Japeense would surrender. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Arilift was a respones in which the Western Allies it to carry supplies and people. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was the first international crisis of the Cold War. This happened during WWII when the Soviet Union blocked off the Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. -
Formation of NATO
This organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutal defense in response to attack by any extreme party. -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
This was a 58 page policy paper issued the the U.S. on April 14, 1950. This policy shaped the the U.S. foreign policy for the next 20 years. -
President Truman fires General MacArthur
On 11 April 1951, U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands after MacArthur made public statements which contradicted the administration's policies. MacArthur was a popular hero of World War II who was then the commander of United Nations forces fighting in the Korean War, and his relief remains a controversial topic in the field of civil-military relations. -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty that involved eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Launching of Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I changed history. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball, weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
