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Formation of the Eastern Bloc.
The Eastern bloc is formed by Joseph Stalin and comprises of Eastern European countries that served as puppet states to Stalin, Countries included Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany and others. -
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The Cold War
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China Becomes communist
Mao Zedong and the communist party of China wins the civil war that was raging against president Chiang Kai-Shek and pushing them from the mainland onto the island of Taiwan. This was a major event as now two major countries in the world were communist and for a time worked activly with each other to spread communism, this led to the emergence of the domino effect in Korea and then Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia and Cuba. This event also led to the first proxy war of the cold war (The Korean war). -
Hungarian Uprising
On this day when the first shots were fired as the secret police opened fire to disperse crowds. Throughout October battles raged through Budapest and eventually spread to the countryside. The revolt reached a climactic point in November 1956 after Hungary announced its withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and declaring its neutrality. This action was followed by Soviet tanks rolling through Budapest destroying the last remnants of the revolution and claiming around 5000 civilian lives. -
American U2 spy plance incident
An American pilot named Gary Powers and his plane was shot down while spying over the USSR. The pilot was charged with 10 years in prison and the American government with the negotiation skills of lawyer James Donovan and powers was released two years later in exchange for KGB spy Rudolf Abel on the Glienicke bridge on the 10th of February, 1962. -
JFK is elected president
John F Kennedy, a young US senator is elected president in an extremely close federal election by 0.16 percent against incumbent vice-president, Richard Nixon. JFK would oversee the space race and many events that nearly brought nuclear war including the Cuban missile crisis, the negotiations of the U2 spy plane incident. And other major steps for man (no pun intended) like developments of the space race. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Cuban rebels launch an attack on the government of Fidel Castro in a attempt to oast him from power with assistance from the CIA in troops and weapons, it failed. The result was President Kennedy having to negotiate with the Cubans and Soviets and ending with making the USSR and USA relations very cold. . JFK finished his address to the nation with the famous words "I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them into the wind.", He was later assassinated suspiciously. -
Cuban missile Crisis begins
A 13 day standoff between the US and USSR over the installation of ballistic missiles on Cuba, ends on 26th. This is a historically significant event as the the US and USSR were ready to go the DEFCON 1, which was before nuclear war. The matter was resolved once American removed the Jericho missiles in Turkey, and signed a non-invasion pact of Cuba. In return the Soviets removed the missiles from Cuba and left, not long after the Cuban embargo commenced and continues to this day. -
JFK is assassinated
John F Kennedy, 35th president of the United States is assassinated while in his motorcade during a visit to Dallas, Texas a little over two years after being elected, leaving vice-president Lyndon B Johnson to become 36th president later the same day on air force one. This event ends the US without their beloved president and a joke the Soviets. To this day hundreds of theories persist on whom ordered JFK dead, with many pointing towards the Soviet government, whom JFK had become a problem for. -
America enters Vietnam war
The Vietnam war begins with a executive order from president Lyndon B Johnson and goes on for another 19 years and ends in defeat for the Americans and the success for the communist forces. This war was significant because it was the second major proxy war between the forces of capitalism and communism and where the Americans were soundly defeated. The other major war was the Korean war in the early 1950s.. -
Dissolution of the USSR
Due to economic and political hardship due to isolationism, president Mikhail Gorbachev official dissolves the union after resigning as president and Boris Yeltsin becomes president. The new flag is raised.
