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Hitler's out of control, so the international community tackles him and tries to explain why killing all the Jews is a bad idea. But he kills himself before they could explain it to him.
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He deals up with America to fight against Japan,
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Let's unite all the nations and have some World Peace! Seems legit.
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America wants to control Germany, the USSR want to control Germany, so they split it in half.
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Germany is no longer Germany, it's East Germany and West Germany {1/2/3}.
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There's the Korean War: Korea versus Korea. Nobody wins and then it's on pause forever.
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Contain communism
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Nobody wins and then it's on pause forever.
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Death to the a**hole
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This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states. The communist leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh while the US friendly south was led by Ngo Dinh Diem.
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The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.
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Vietnam VS Vietnam
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This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. The tanks withdrew on 28th October and a new government was formed which quickly moved to introduce democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. The Soviet tanks returned on 4th November encircling Budapest. The Prime Minister Imre Nagy made a World broadcast that Hungary was under attack from the Soviet Union and calling for aid. Hungary fell to Russia on 10th November 1956.
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Following military bombardment by Israeli forces, a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal which had been nationalised by the Egyptian leader Nasser. The attack was heavily criticised by World leaders, especially America because Russia had offered support to Egypt. The British and French were forced to withdraw and a UN peace keeping force was sent to establish order.
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USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
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Talks between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 spy plane was shot down over Russian airspace.
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They FINALLY GET TO BUILD THE WALL
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space.
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A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed.
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A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the weapons. The United States agreed not to invade Cuba.
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JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder but there has always been speculation that he was not a lone killer and that there may have been communist or CIA complicity.
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150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam.
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Warsaw Pact forces entered Czechoslovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as ‘Prague Spring’ instigated by Alexander Dubcek. When he refused to halt his programme of reforms Dubcek was arrested.
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US launched Apollo 8 – first manned orbit of the Moon.
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US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon.
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The economic war between the USSR and America makes the global economy 10x better.
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President Richard Nixon ordered US troops to go to Cambodia.
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COKE VS PEPSI
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Vietnam VS Vietnam
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The Four Power Agreement made between Russia, USA, Britain and France reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to Berlin.
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR.
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Joint space venture between USA and USSR heralded as an end to the ‘Space Race’
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The Khmer Rouge attacked and took control of Cambodia. Any supporters of the former regime, anyone with links or supposed links to foreign governments, as well as many intellectuals and professionals were executed in a genocide that became known as the ‘killing fields’.
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A group of Iranian students and militants stormed the American embassy and took 53 Americans hostage to show their support for the Iranian Revolution.
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Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan
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A number of countries including the USA boycotted the summer Olympics held in Moscow in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Other countries including Great Britain participated under the Olympic flag rather than their national flag
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Martial law was declared to crush the Solidarity movement in Poland.
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The Iranian hostage crisis ended 444 days after it began
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During a summit in Geneva Reagan proposed Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
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Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US boycott of 1980
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Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union.
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An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine remains the worst nuclear disaster in history.
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Mikhail Gorbachev announced his intention to follow a policy of glasnost – openness, transparency and freedom of speech; and perestroika – restructuring of government and economy. He also advocated free elections and ending the arms race.
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Anti Communist protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China were crushed by the government. The death count is unknown.
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The Berlin wall was torn down.
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East and West Germany were reunited as one country.
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The Warsaw Pact which allied Communist countries was ended
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The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The hammer and sickle flag on the Kremlin was lowered.
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The Soviet Union decides to relax a little and accidentally falls apart.
