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Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union
Hitler starts the operation Barbarosa and heads his troops to the capital of Russia, Moscow -
End of World War II
Germany gets surrounded and Hitler commits suicide, now they have to deal with the consequences -
Yalta Conference
The big leaders from the alleys, organize a conference in Yalta, Russia to discuss the terms of important subjects after winning the war -
Olympic Games 1948 in London after 12 years
After 12 years of absence from the Olympic Games, they were organized with the intention of providing world union after very difficult years of war.
Germany and Japan were banned of the competition
The Soviet Union didnt participate because they considered this kind of global events as capitalist and bourgeois. United States won the compitition with more medals for the country -
Olympic Games 1952 Helsinsky
In this event, the Olympic Committee decided not to veto the Soviet Union because its regulations established that no nation should be discriminated against. they considered that sports should not be tools for countries to send political or social messages.
The German democratic republic was admitted to the games, while the other communist faction was rejected. -
Death of Stalin
Stalin, the big leader of the Soviet Union suffered a cerebral haemorrhage that caused his death -
Vietnam War
The armed conflicts in Vietnam begin, a country where the United States will eventually enter as an intermediary to prevent the rise to power of communist leaders in the country. -
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro, a communist leader associated with the soviet government led the movement -
Berlin Wall
While the population of Berlin slept one night, the German democratic republic began an operation to divide its half of the territory with the other berlin with a gigantic wall -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the tension between the united states and the soviet union was about to explode when the soviet union threatened to bomb the united states by administering missiles in cuba, as a response to the american intervention in cuban territory -
Olympic Games 1968 Mexico
Despite the efforts of the committee to create an environment free of political movements, the Olympic Games had an adverse result, the tension in these events increased more and more, this was witnessed in the Olympic Games in Mexico, where before the games began a movement of repression was carried out against protesters, who demanded a revolution and not an olympic games, this ended with a wave of violence against the protesters in tlatelolco -
Space Race
During this decade of the sixties, the United States and the Soviet Union maintained a rivalry to see who could develop a space project more quickly, the Soviets were the first to reach space in 1961 while the Americans reached the moon first in 1969 -
Nixon meets with Mao Zedong
President Nixon travels to China to try to improve relations with China and discuss Taiwan-related issues as well as current issues -
End of Vietnam War
The communist bloc managed to defeat the South Vietnamese who received the support of the United States, Vietnam was reunited under the name of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam -
Death of Mao Zedong
mao zedong was a communist dictator and was the greatest exponent of the movement in asia -
Oympic Games 1976 Montreal
with a change of leadership, the political games gave up their effort to create competition without influence and accepted the support of important brands to make the games, several conflicts arose within the games, Taiwan withdrew from the games since Canada did not recognized them and did not allow them to use the name of China -
Olympic Games 1980 Moscow
The use of the Olympic Games as a tool to show superiority by the powers could not be more obvious than in this edition in which the United States decided not to participate in response to the Russian intervention in Afghanistan -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The German people decided to tear down the wall that separated them for 3 decades without the need to use violence. -
Intervention in Panama
The United States intervened in Panama with the arrest warrant for Manuel Noriega, a general who gave false information to the CIA and supported communist rebels -
End of the Cold War
President Gorbachev decides to sign a peace treaty with George Bush to end the cold war, a war that has caused various problems around the world in recent decades.