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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4–11, 1945, during World War 2 -
First East European Communist government set up in Albania.
By the end of the 1950s, it looked to all the world as if Eastern Europe were safely back in the Communist fold. The Hungarians were still stunned by the defeat of the revolution; -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established.Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.
Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning -
U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces
The Korean War from 1950 to 1953 was the most severe test the United Nations had to face since its inception in 1945. -
Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution
Was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956 -
Soviets launch first man‑made satellite
Was The First Earth Satellite -
East Germany builds Berlin Wall.
East German authorities begin building a wall–the Berlin Wall–to permanently close off access to the Wes -
China explodes its first atomic bomb.
When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, the Soviet Union agreed to aid China technologically in the development of nuclear industry -
President Richard Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States (U.S.) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). -
South Vietnam falls to Communist forces
The South Vietnamese forces had collapsed under the rapid advancement of the North Vietnamese -
Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan
the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country -
Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed
, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country. Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent, anti-communist social movement that, at its height, -
U.S. invades Grenada
U.S. Navy SEALs and other combined forces constituted the 7,600 troops from the United States, Jamaica, and members of the Regional Security System (RSS)[ -
East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany.
Border guards at Bornholmer Strasse crossing, Checkpoint Charlie and several other crossings abandoned all efforts to check credentials, even though the new regulations said East Germans would still need passports and permission to get across -
Berlin Wall is demolished
The fall of the Berlin Wall had begun with the building of the Wall in 1961.It took about three decades until the Wall was torn down. -
The Soviet Union is abolished.Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia
it quickly became the defining moment in a new American triumphalist narrative, the hope that Mikhail Gorbachev's pro-Soviet democratic and market reforms of 1985-91 would succeed was forgotten
