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The Cold War
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World War II Ends
The Allies defeated the Axis, following the destruccion of Hitoshima and Nagasaki. -
Beginings of the Eastern Block
The Soviet Union began anexing toghether several countries as Soviet Republics (from Russia until the Soviet German zone). -
Truman Doctorine
International-relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech[1] on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.[ -
Marshall Plan
A pledge of economic assistance for all European countries willing to participate, including the Soviet Union. -
Cominform
The Soviets enforced orthodoxy within the international communist movement and tighten political control over Soviet satellites through coordination of communist parties in the Eastern Bloc. -
Tito–Stalin Split
Conflict between the leaders of SFR Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union (USSR), which resulted in Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) in 1948. -
Berlin Blockade
The United States and Britain merged their western German occupation zones into "Bizonia". -
Chinesse Civil War
Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army defeated Chiang Kai-shek's United States-backed Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalist Government in China, and the Soviet Union promptly created an alliance with the newly formed People's Republic of China. -
Korean War
Kim Il-Sung's North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea. -
Stalin´s death
The situation in Europe remained an uneasy armed truce. -
Eisenhower
When Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as U.S. President in 1953, the Democrats lost their two-decades-long control of the U.S. presidency. -
Khrushchev´s arrival to power
After the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev became the Soviet leader following the deposition and execution of Lavrentiy Beria and the pushing aside of rivals Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov. -
French NATO withdrawal
The unity of NATO was breached early in its history, with a crisis occurring during Charles de Gaulle's presidency of France -
Berlin Ultimatum
Khrushchev made an unsuccessful attempt to turn all of Berlin into an independent, demilitarized "free city", giving the United States, Great Britain, and France a six-month ultimatum to withdraw their troops from the sectors they still occupied in West Berlin -
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro leaded a movement entitled "The July 26 Movement" -
Berlin Crisis
Was the last major incident in the Cold War regarding the status of Berlin and post–World War II Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
President John F. Kennedy and his administration experimented with various ways of covertly facilitating the overthrow of the Cuban government. -
USA at the Dominican Republic
President Lyndon B. Johnson landed some 22,000 troops in the Dominican Republic for a one-year occupation of the republic in an invasion codenamed Operation Power Pack, citing the threat of the emergence of a Cuban-style revolution in Latin America. -
Czechslovakia invasion
A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia called the Prague Spring took place that included "Action Program" of liberalizations, which described increasing freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of movement, along with an economic emphasis on consumer goods, the possibility of a multiparty government, limiting the power of the secret police[180][181] and potentially withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.[ -
Brezhnev Doctrine
Brezhnev outlined the Brezhnev Doctrine, in which he claimed the right to violate the sovereignty of any country attempting to replace Marxism-Leninism with capitalism. During the speech, Brezhnev stated: When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries. -
Nixon´s visit to China
Tensions along the Chinese–Soviet border reached their peak in 1969, and United States President Richard Nixon decided to use the conflict to shift the balance of power towards the West in the Cold War. -
Ronald Reagan
Four years prior to becoming president, Ronald Reagan bluntly stated, in a conversation with Richard V. Allen, his basic expectation in relation to the Cold War. -
Soviet war in Afghanistan
The communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in Afghanistan in the Saur Revolution. -
Second Cold War
Reawakening of Cold War tensions and conflicts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. -
Soviet military and economic issues
Moscow had built up a military that consumed as much as 25 percent of the Soviet Union's gross national product at the expense of consumer goods and investment in civilian sectors. -
The Reagan Doctrine
Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine which, in addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments. -
End of the Cold War
In the USSR itself, glasnost weakened the bonds that held the Soviet Union together and by February 1991, with the dissolution of the USSR looming, the Communist Party was forced to surrender its 73-year-old monopoly on state power. At the same time freedom of press and dissent allowed by glasnost and the festering "nationalities question" increasingly led the Union's component republics to declare their autonomy from Moscow, with the Baltic states withdrawing from the Union entirely.
