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Guatemala
It was the armed conflict between government and rebel militias that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and made millions of others homeless. It went on for 36 years in battles military forces. -
China's Civil War
The Chinese Civil War (1927–1950) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT), the governing party of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China (CPC), for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into two Chinas, Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan and People's Republic of China (PRC) in Mainland -
Atomic Bomb
"A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. -
Berlin wall built/falls
The Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 to provide a physical barrier between East and West Berlin. -
United Nations
A group of nations work together to prevent war. -
Truman Doctrine
A policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S. Truman giving Greece and Turkey economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. -
Marshal Plan
The US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WW 2 -
State of israel
The establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine -
NATO
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states and especially the United States and Europe. -
Korea/Korean war
A conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea -
Nuclaer Test Ban Treaty
A treaty signed in Moscow by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom that banned all tests of nuclear weapons except those conducted underground. -
Senator McCarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy was the leading American anticommunist figure in the late 1940s and early 50s. -
SEATO
the organization was to prevent communism from gaining ground in the region -
Hungarian uprising
When the working class took on and defeated the police and installed a new government, lasting 18 days before being crushed by Soviet tanks. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. -
Cuban Revolution
The revolution led by Fidel Castro and a small band of guerrilla fighters against a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba. -
Vietnam war begin/ end
It was a war that was spreading through out asian countries that was fought against the rising tide of communism. The years were 1959-1975 -
Bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded -
Gulf of Tonkin
This lead to the war and the torpedo boats attacked USS Maddox -
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a state which governed southern Vietnam until 1975. -
tet offensive
It was a military campaign during the Vietnam War. -
Nixon visits China
The vist ended twenty-five years of isolation between the U.S and the peoples republic of China. -
Col war ends
The shredding of the iron curtain -
Warsaw pact
The alliance of the East European socialist states is the nominal counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on the European continent. -
Reagan and Gorbachev sign treaty
A nuclear arms treaty -
Gorbachev
Chairmen of the presidium of the supreme soviet.
