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Chinese Revolution
When: 1949
Who: Communist leader Mao Zendong
What: Mao Zendong declared the making of peoples republic of China (PRC) it lead to the civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist party or kumintang (KMP)
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Korean war
When: 1950- 1953
who: North Korea, South Korea, United States
What: North Korea sending troops path the 38th Parellel, starting battle between south and north later U.S. joined on souths behalf -
sputnik launched (and the space race)
When: Oct. 4 1957- 1975
Who: Soveit Union, and United States
What: Soviet Unions secessfully launced sputnik in
to space. Soviet Union, and US racing eachother into space.
How:Launches of different types of sattlites and trying different way to get to the moon. -
U2 spy plane goes down
When: 1960
who: Soviet Union, and United States
what:Was used by the USAF (United States Air Force) USSR shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers -
Berlin Wall Goes Up
who: Germans
What: 2.6 million East Germans escaped to West Berlin so they put a wall up in 1961
Where: Germany/ Berlin -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Who: United States and Soviet Union
What:Nulear war
Where:Soviet missiles in Cuba, 90 miles from American soil -
Uprising in Hungary and Czachoslovakia
When:1956- 1968
who: Hungary, Czachoslovakia
What: Revolutionary actions of Hungary and Czachoslovakia
How: Street protests, displays of rebellion, invasions into Czachoslovakia done by other countires. -
Russia Invades Afganistan
Who:Russia and Afganistand
What: Many muslums fled, Afganistan was alrady getting into the civil war
Where: Afganistan