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Mao Zedong takes control of China
Mao forces defeated Kuomintang force in January 21, 1949.December 10, 1949 PLA troops laid siege to Chendu and Chiang Kai-shek evacuated from the mainland to Taiwan. -
Korean War
Military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. American administrators divided the penisula along the 38th parallel, with U.S. trrops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part. After Japan had surrendered. -
Vietnam War
Was fought between the communist Norht Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti- communist nations. The U.S. entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as aprt of their wider strategy of containment. The caputure of Saigon by the North Vietnamese army in April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War. -
Sovier Invasion of Hungary
The plice attacked, and the demonstrator fought back, tearing down symbols of Soviet domintion and HWP rule, sacking the party newspaper's offices and shouting in favor of free electons, national independence, and the return of Imre Nagy to power. Crowds emptied the prisons, freed Cardinal Mindszently, sacked police stations, and summarily hanged some member of the secret police. The Central Committee named Nagy prime minister on October 25 and selected a new Politburo and Secretariat. -
Fidel Catsro Takes Over Cuba
Castro subsequently came to power as a result of the Cuban revolution that overthrew the U.S baked dictatorship of Batista, and shortly thereafter became Prime Minister of Cuba. -
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Between Soviet Union, Cuba, and United States in October 1962, during the cold war. The Cubans and Soviet governments began to surreptitously build bases in Cuba for a number of medium and intermediate range ballistic nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental Untied States and this all happened on October 14. -
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Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
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Nixon Visits China
Nixon visited china to formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. It marked the first time a U.S president had visited the PRC, eho at that time considered the U.S. one of its staunchest foes. -
SALT Treaty Talks
Refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. Focused on limiting the two countries stocks of nuclear weapons, the treaties then led to Start, Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signing a joint communique. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Ten year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan at their own request against the Islamist Mujahideen Resistance. The final troop withdrawl started on May 15, 1988 and ended on Febuary 15, 1989 under the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. -
Civil War In Nicaragua
From an early stage, the rebels recieved both overt and covert financial and military support from the United States government through the Central Intelligence Agency, initially supplemented by the Argentine dictatoship of the time. -
Revolution in Iran
Refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution. -
Iran/Iraq War
Was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988. -
Mikhail Gorbachev takes control of USSR
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Soviet Union Falls Apart
