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The Battle of Berlin was on of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War 2 -
A conflict between the communist-dominated left-wing resistance organization EAM-ELAS and loosely allied anti-communist resistance forces. -
The Chinese People's War of Liberation in the People's Republic of China -
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act. Which proposed the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
The first major international crisis of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railways, roads, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Postwar Germany decided they would divide Germany into occupation zones. -
Was fought between North Korea and South Korea. -
Armed revolt lead by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries. -
The overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. -
The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc by invading and then annexing several countries as Soviet Socialist Republics by agreement with Nazi Germany in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. -
Fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
A failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba. -
The communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. -
A 13-day political standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. -
Was created in order to bring various Palestinian groups together under one organization. -
A period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. -
A conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. -
Troops fired at protesters and those trying to block the military's advance on Tiananmen Square. -
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state. -
A series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States.