C period cold war

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  • Japan colonizes Korean Peninsula

  • Soviet Union formed

  • France declares war on Germany

  • Germany split

    Britain, France, US, USSR, split Germany into East/West + Berlin

  • US & USSR forces capture Korean peninsula at end of WWII

    US & USSR forces capture Korean peninsula at end of WWII

  • Japan surrenders to US

  • Central northern regions of africa

    Central Northern regions of Africa went under Brit control

  • Kim Il Sung assumes power in North Korea (Syngman Rhee leads south korea)

  • US & USSR split Korea in 38th Parallel

  • Period: to

    Kim Il Sung rules North Korea

  • US creates military assistance group in Vietnam fighting China

  • Period: to

    Korean war

  • Mao's first 5 year plan

  • Cuban Revolution

    Fidel Castro leads attack w/ military rebels in Cuba

  • France signs Geneva Peace Conference

  • Warsaw pact

    The alliance between countries in eastern europe

  • Suez canal crisis

  • Gold coast becomes independent state of Ghana

  • Great Leap Forward (china)

    Mao proposed Great Leap Forward

  • protests in Congo

    people stopped paying taxes following colonial laws and recognizing authority of colonial officials

  • Castro takes over Cuba from Batista

  • Congo becomes independent

  • US embargo on Cuba

    Us places embargo on Cuba for forcing out US companies and trading w/ soviets

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    US gov leads ex-Cubans to overthrow Castro and it fails

  • Berlin wall built by East Germany

  • Kruschev puts missiles in Cuba

  • China joins Vietnam war

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Oct 22 Kennedy announced blockade of Russian ships w/ nukes

  • Mao launches great proletarian cultural revolution

  • Saigon Falls

  • return of Ayatollah Khomeini (Iran)

    beginning of 1979 revolution

  • Gorbichev elected

    instates Glasnost (soviet policy which increases transparency) and Perestroika (restructuring of economy which ends central planning and reopens markets

  • USSR puts non intervention policy in Poland

  • Borus Yeltsin is elected president

    he was not communist which made communist party very unhappy

  • Berlin wall falls

  • collapse of Soviet Union

    leaves North Korea politically and economically isolated
  • Period: to

    Kim Jong Il rules North Korea

  • North Korea withdraws from 1995 nuclear proliferation treaty

  • Period: to

    Kim jong Un rules North Korea