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the eastern bloc was a group of eastern european countries aligned in their military, and government systems. -
after WWII Germany was divided into four pieces controlled by the united states, France, Britain and Russia. -
after the second world war a communist uprising enstated a new government in greece -
Russia blocked off all of the allied railroads so the united states responded with a massive airlift operation to get supplies to west berlin. -
the enactment of the Marshall plan was putting into place a plan for rebuilding Europe after WWII -
in 1949 Mao Zedong declared the creation of the republic of China. -
a war between north and south Korea that ended in stalemate even after Americas assistance of south Korea -
the Vietnam war was a war between allied N.V.A. and Viet Cong forces against the south Vietnamese government and the united states. -
in 1954 the Guatemalan president was deposed in a coup staged by the Cia -
in 1956 a Hungarian uprising lasted 12 days until being crushed by the Hungarian government -
the revolution in which Fidel Castro overthrew the reign of Fulgencio Batista. -
The construction of the berlin wall began in august 1961 -
the bay of pigs invasion was a failed attempt by JFK to overthrow Fidel Castro's rule in Cuba -
The Cuban missile crisis was a tense moment in which dictator Fidel Castro was in possession of Russian nuclear warheads. -
Prague spring was a period of communist reform in Czechoslovakia. -
the soviet-Afghan war was a conflict between the soviet controlling military presence in Afghanistan and the mujahideen fighters. -
the Tiananmen square massacre was an incident in which soldiers were ordered to shoot protesters on sight in Tiananmen square. -
the berlin wall fell in just hours after it was opened with people smashing away pieces of it. -
in 1991 the soviet union finally fell after Mikhail Gorbachev renounced his rule over the soviet union -
on 9/11 2001 four planes were hijacked by terrorists, two flew into the world trade center, one into the pentagon, and one was brought down in Pennsylvania.