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WWII Ends
The WW!! ends and germany is split up but there is tensions between communists and capitalists. -
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Cold War
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Communist coup in Czechoslovaki
There was a government overthrow and Czechoslovakia was changed into a communist dictatorship. -
Korean War
1950 was the start of the Korean proxy war ending itn the USA defeate and communist win. -
West Germany joins NATO
This action marked the final step of West Germany’s integration into the Western European defense system. -
Sputnik Sattleite was launced
The worlds first artifical satleite launched into space. -
Eisenhower
Eisenhower sent 15,000 U.S. troops to Lebanon to prevent the pro-Western government from falling to a Nasser-inspired revolution. -
CUBA
Cuba was taken over by Fidel Castro a communist leader. -
U2 INCIDENT
Was when a American spy plain was shot down by russa and the pilote was screatly captured. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Russia placed nuclear missials in cubia wich is right off the coast of the USA. -
Washington-Moscow Hot Line established
links the Pentagon with the Kremlin or us headquorters with the russian head quorters. -
“Six-Day War” in Middle East
Fought between Isrial and its neiboring states of Egypt -
Détente
period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Loss of the Vietnam war
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces. -
Death of Mao;
was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and founding father of the peoples republic in china. -
Carter administration
His administration tried to make the government "competent and compassionate". -
U.S. troops sent to Lebanon
U.S. troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika" -
Nuclear missials removed
The ussr removes nuclear missials from arias arond the united states. -
The end of cold war
Berlin wall comes down. -
Russia
In 1991 the ussr chages its communist ways and turns into Russia -
Communist leaders elected in Poland and Hungary
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European Union
Poland and Hungary apply for membership in European Union
