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The Cold War began after the fall of the Axis powers.
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CIvil War re-erupts in China aginast the Communist and Nationalist.
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Civil War erupted in Greece, Communist and Anti-Communist parties fought for polictical control of the government and country.
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Winston Churchill states that an Iron Curtain has desended on Europe
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Truman established this policy to help free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities.
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The communist leader, Mao Zedong, defeated Kai-Shek and took contol of China naming it the People's Republic of China.
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The Sovit Union tested their own Atom Bomb
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The new capital of Germany in the West, supported by the U.S, Britain, France, etc.
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The Sovits established the German Democratic Republic in Eastern Germany.
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The Korean War started when Communist North Korea invaded South Korea
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Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, dies.
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Khrushchev takes over the Soviet Union after the death of Joesph Stalin.
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The Supreme Court made the Pratice of Racial Segregation illegal in public schools
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Ime Nagy declared Hungary a free country but Khushkev did not repond kindly.
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The Soviet army attacked Budapest to reclaim control of hungary.
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Imre Nagy is exeuted by the Soviets
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France, West Germany, Benelux countries and italy sign the Rome Treaty. This created the EEC or The Common Market.
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The Soviet Union lunch the first human made satilite into space
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba and sets up a Soviet-Supported regime.
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France tested their own nuclear bomb
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John F. Kenndy becomes the president of the United States.
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Cuban exiles backed by the CIA try to take back Cuba, but they their mission was a failure.
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The soviets constructed the Berlin Wall after talks for germany's future break up
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The soviet put nuclear weapons on cuba and the u.s responded by blockading the island.
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JFK is shot in the head and killed in Dallas.
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France withdraws from NATO's Command Structure
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Eygpt blocks the straits of tiran from everybody and prepare an attack on Israel
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North Vietnam invades South Vietnam
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Richard Nixon becomes president of the united states
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The U.S sussecfully lands on the moon thanks to apollo 11 and her crew