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Divided Germany into zones. Different powers took into advantage of Germany -
The Greek Civil War took place between 1943 to 1949. It was mainly fought against the established Kingdom of Greece. The Kingdom won in the end. -
The Chinese Communist Revolution, officially known as the Chinese People's War of Liberation in the People's Republic of China and also known as the National Protection War against the Communist Rebellion -
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. -
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. -
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, code-named Operation PBSuccess, was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954 -
In the early stages of World War II, the Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc, the group of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, by invading and later annexing several countries with Nazi Germany as Soviet Socialist Republics in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. -
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete Antifascistischer Schutzwall, or antifascist bulwark, between East and West Berlin. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, which escalated -
Prague Spring, brief period of liberalization in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček in 1968. Soon after he became first secretary of the Czechoslovak -
Chilean armed forces took down the government. There was a lot of civil unrest and commotion during this time. -
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. -
It was under the constant surveillance of armed East German border guards who were authorised to shoot anyone attempting to escape into West Berlin. -
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union which resulted in the end of the country's and the federal governments existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty. -
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States.