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Communist win China
During China's war with Japan, Chiang Kai-shek had moved his forces deep into the interior, leaving a political vacuum in the east to be filled by the Communists. And Communist forces confronted the enemy, the Japanese, beginning with the "Hundred Regiments Campaign" in North China in 1940, led by Peng Dehuai. -
Buffer States of the USSR
When they were non-communist states before World War II, and to when they were communist states after World War II. -
Atomic Bomb
a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity -
Berlin airlift
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War -
Molotov Plan
A System created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
U.S. Aid to Turkey
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Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid Western Europe -
NATO Established
An intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
USSR gets atomic bomb
The classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Coup in Iran
The overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. -
Coup in Guatemala
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 -
Warsaw Pact formed
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO. -
Beginning of troops in Vietnam
The Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
Hungary (Rebellion)
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Suez Canal Crisis
Invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
Sputnik
The first artificial Earth satellite. A 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses -
Cuba (Missile Crisis)
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
China explodes atomic bomb
Intelligence reports since China was working to develop an atomic bomb, possibly aided by Soviet technicians and scientists. Nevertheless, the successful test did cause concern in the U.S. government. -
Coup in Chile
A watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. -
Communist Angola
An underground political party in Portuguese Angola -
End of troops in Vietnam
The last remaining American troops withdraw from Vietnam as President Nixon declares "the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come." -
Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
The campaign led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) to violently oust the dictatorship in, the subsequent efforts. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war. -
War in El Salvador
A conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition or "umbrella organization" of several left-wing groups. -
Evil Empire Speech
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities. -
Star Wars (S.D.I)
Was criticized for threatening to destabilize the MAD-approach and to possibly re-ignite "an offensive arms race". -
Iran Contra Affair
A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
A wall that separated the communist Eastern side of Berlin from the democratic Western side -
Fall of the USSR
A result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
