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The Victory In Europe Day
Germany give up to the Russian army. The Potsdam Conference divided so many nations and countries into four zones . The United States dropped the first and second atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an independent republic. -
Forming Of NATO
In 1949, The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact. Every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II. -
The Forming Of Warsaw Pact
Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance,the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.The Warsaw included the Soviet Union,Albania, Poland,Romania,Hungary,East Germany,Czechoslovakia,and Bulgaria as members.The treaty had the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force. Also,the treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact indicated any reason for them attack. This revolved around Western Germany. -
Communist Governments Fall
A force of Cuban, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba. The attempt failed. President Kennedy tried to do a set up and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when Russians agreed to remove the weapons. The United States agreed not to invade Cuba. -
The Vietnam War
150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam. Growing opposition to the war in the United States led to bitter divisions among Americans. North Vietnam, which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954, to unify the entire country under a single communist regime modeled after those of the Soviet Union and China. The South Vietnamese government, on the other hand, fought , Vietnam more closely aligned with the West -
Tragedy In Cambodia
The Khmer Rouge attacked and took control of Cambodia, that led up to professionals being executed in a genocide which made it known as the ‘killing fields’. North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam,which made the capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese . The Khmer Rouge overthrew the Cambodian government. The only way they were able to destroy things was that they drove people from the cities and forced them to work in the fields. The Vietnameses Ended The Genocide. -
The Berlin Wall Is Toppled
China were crushed by the government. Hungary proclaimed itself a republic. But also The Berlinwall was torn down, They had a meeting between two nations that made a lot of changed to the Yalta Conference 1945. It was seen by some as the beginning for the end of the cold war. Riots broke out which were culminated in the overthrow.
