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Chinese communist revolution
Social and political revolution that culminated in the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 -
Formation of the eastern Bloc
The formation of the eastern bloc was founded through Stalins desire to enforce soviet domination. -
Postwar occupation and division of Germany
After the potsdam conference, Germany was divided into four occupied zones. Great Britain in the northwest. France in the southwest.Unites states in the south and the Soviet Union in the east. -
Enactment of marshal plan
George Marshal proposed that the U.S. provide economic assistance to restore the infrastructure. -
Berlin blockade and airlift.
One of the first crisis of the Cold War. Soviet Union blocked the western allies railroad, road and canal. -
Korean war
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased after an armistice on 27 July 1953. -
Cuban revolution
The Cuban Revolution was a military and political effort to overthrow the government of Cuba between 1953 and 1959. -
Vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold War. -
Hungarian uprising
The Hungarian Uprising was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union. -
Bay of pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
Building the Berlin wall
Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. -
Cuban missile crisis
13 day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
Rise of the palestine liberation organization
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) was founded in 1964 with the purpose of liberating Palestine, achieving Palestinian self-determination, and securing the return of the refugees. -
Prague spring
Brief period of economic and political liberalization in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček that began in January 1968 and ended on August 20, 1968, when Soviet forces invaded the country. -
Overthrow of the Allende government in chile
On 11 September 1973, a group of military officers, led by General Augusto Pinochet, seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule. Armed forces put the country under military control. Little and unorganized civil resistance. -
Soviet war in Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. -
Tiananmen square massacre
the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in which the People's Liberation Army cracked down on a student protest on the square that had the stated purpose of calling for political liberalization and greater respect for human rights. -
Fall of the berlin wall
Gorbachev renounce the Brezhnev doctrine, after a massive public demonstrations in east and west Germany, the Berlin wall then fell. -
Fall of the soviet union
Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
9/11 Attacks
Terrorist attack through planes crashing into the twin towers in New York City. Other planes landed in places like the pentagon.