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Postwar Occupation and Division of Germany
After WWII, Germany was split into spheres of influence. For purposes of occupation, the Americans, British, French, and Soviets divided Germany into four zones. The American, British, and French zones together made up the western two-thirds of Germany, while the Soviet zone comprised the eastern third. -
Greek Civil War
Τhe Greek Civil War was fought in Greece from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army—backed by the United Kingdom and the United States—and the Democratic Army of Greece the military branch of the Greek Communist Party, backed by Yugoslavia and Albania as well as by Bulgaria. It is considered as the first proxy war of the Cold War. The fighting resulted in the defeat of the Communist insurgents by the government forces. -
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The cold war
The cold war was a conflict between both global superpowers, (The USSR and The United States of America). It was called the cold war because neither the USSR or the USA declared war on each other and it was rather an arms race to see who the better country was. -
Enactment of Marshall plan
When President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948, It became known as the Marshall Plan. It was named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The berlin blockade was one of the first big conflicts in the cold war. The USSR created a blockade around Berlin and kept supplies from entering the capital. The Western powers, in support of berlin sent their supplies by aircraft and helped the people trapped by sending supplies to help. -
The Chinese Revoloution of 1949
The Chinese Revolution of 1949 was when Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. As with the first effort at cooperation between the Nationalist government and the CCP, this Second United Front was short-lived. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
Overthrow of the Guatemalan Government
The overthrow of the Guatemalan Government in 1954, code-named Operation PBSuccess, was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala. Marking victory for the U.S. -
Formation of the Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc was the amalgamation of socialist states at the time of the cold war. The Eastern Bloc was often referred to as the USSR which was one of the two global superpowers at the time. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred 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 officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. This war was another conflict of powers between communism and capitalism. -
The Hungarian Uprising
The Hungarian Revolution was a countrywide revolution against the government and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR. During the Hungarian Uprising the Hungarian people culminated in protests against domestic policies imposed by the USSR, and the people formed together in protest against the Soviet Union. Repression of the Hungarian Uprising killed 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet Army soldiers, and compelled 200,000 Hungarians to seek political refuge abroad. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961 Launched from Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, under the direct command of Castro. -
The Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. July 26, 1959 is celebrated in Cuba as the Day of the Revolution. Fidel Castro was pining for a communist country and to make Cuba his own, by doing so it increased tensions between the United States and its cuban territory. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight, on 13 August 1961. The wall served to split Berlin as well as trapping the people there in a conflict. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962, the Kennedy Administration faced its most serious foreign policy crisis. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev saw an opportunity to strengthen the relationship between the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro's Cuba and make good its promise to defend Cuba from the United States. Cuba had relations with the USSR which brought fear into Americans as Cuba was much closer than The USSR. US intel had found missiles pointed at the US in cuba which created a threat. -
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on January 5th when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and continued until August 21, 1968, when the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact members invaded the country to suppress the reforms. -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the rural countryside. The Soviets wanted to invade to expand their territory and gain more people. The war ended when Gorbachev realized that the toll on the USSR was to great and so he signed a peace treaty. -
The Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiananmen Square is located in the center of Beijing, the capital of China. In 1989, after several weeks of student demonstrations/protests, Chinese troops entered Tiananmen Square on June 4 and fired on civilians. Estimates of the death toll range from several hundred to thousands. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. People from both sides even tally broke down the wall with whatever they could find and saw onto the other side for the first time in many years. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state, therein ending the cold war. -
9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States. On the morning of September 11, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners mid-flight while traveling from the northeastern U.S. to California. Their goal was to inflict mass casualties and major structural damage. The hijackers successfully crashed the first two planes into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.