Cold War-It was called the Cold War because neither the Soviet Union nor the United States officially declared war on each other.
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Postwar occupation and division of Germany
The Potsdam Agreement was made between the major winners of World War II on 1 August 1945, in which Germany was separated into spheres of influence during the Cold War between the Western and Eastern Bloc. It would divide Germany into occupation zones, with the Soviet zone extending to the Elbe and a French zone carved out of the Anglo-American spheres. Berlin would likewise be placed under four-power control. -
Greek Civil War
It was one of the first conflicts of the Cold War: Greece was the only place in Central, Balkan and Eastern Europe where communism attempted, but failed, to take power. The civil war left Greece in a greater economic crisis than the country suffered as a result of the German occupation. Over the next five years this devastating conflict would shatter Greece and transform Europe. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution, officially known as the Chinese People's War of Liberation in the People's Republic of China and also known as the National
Protection War against the Communist Rebellion. It’s stated goal was to preserve Chinese capitalism.The communist party in China gained strength by because Mao divided land that the Communists won among local farmers in order to gain support of peasants not just bankers and business people. -
Enactment of Marshall Plan
On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, 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.The Marshall Plan generated a resurgence of European industrialization and brought extensive investment into the region. It was also a stimulant to the U.S. economy by establishing markets for American goods. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. After 15 months and more than 250,000 flights, the Berlin Airlift officially comes to an end. The airlift was one of the greatest logistical feats in modern history. -
Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. On June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered U.S. forces to South Korea to repulse the North's invasion. -
cuban revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. It began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on 26 July 1953 and ended on 1 January 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were seized by revolutionaries. Castro took a big role in the Cuban revolution. -
Overthrow of the Guatemalan Government
On June 27, 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. Arbenz was replaced by decades of brutal U.S.-backed regimes who committed widespread torture and genocide. As communism in Latin America brought a threat to the American land , they stepped in and overthrew the Guatemalan President. -
Formation of the Eastern Block
During the opening stages of World War II, the Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc by invading and then annexing several countries. They annexed Soviet Socialist Republics by agreement with Nazi Germany in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Eastern Bloc nations were also known as “Second World” nations during the Cold War era. -
Vietnam War
The U.S. entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism. There were hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Vietnam war. Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba. The U.S plan anticipated that the Cuban people and elements of the Cuban military would support the invasion. The ultimate goal was the overthrow of Castro and the establishment of a non-communist government friendly to the United States. -
Building the Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. Over the next few days and weeks, the coils of barbed wire strung along the border to West Berlin were replaced by a wall of concrete slabs and hollow blocks. The wall was heavily guarded day and night to make sure no one got through. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. President John F. Kennedy demanded that all nuclear missiles be removed from Cuba and blockaded the island to prevent further deliveries of nuclear warheads. During the thirteen-day standoff, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. -
Rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization
It was formed to centralize the leadership of various Palestinian groups that previously had operated as clandestine resistance movements. The Palestinians themselves had been dispersed among a number of countries, and—lacking an organized central leadership—many Palestinians formed small, diffuse resistance organizations. The PLO was created at an Arab summit in order to bring various Palestinian groups together under one organization. -
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.The Prague Spring had proved that the Soviet Union was not willing to even contemplate any member of the Warsaw Pact leaving it. 72 people died in the invasion; another 702 were injured, some seriously. -
Soviet war in Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. During this almost ten years lasting war, the Soviet Union failed to defeat the Mujahedin primarily due to an initially false strategic alignment and severe tactical deficiencies. About 15,000 soviet soldiers were killed. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the June Fourth Incident in China, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. Thousands of troops fired on protesters in Tiananmen square. Thousands of pro-democracy protesters were killed by Chinese troops at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. Some were crushed by tanks, and their bodies were later incinerated and washed down drains. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. It was not Mr. Gorbachev but the German people who finally tore down the barrier. The story of the Berlin Wall is one of division and repression, but also of the yearning for freedom -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The fall of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union which resulted in the end of the country's and the federal governments existence as a sovereign state. Gorbachev's decision to loosen the Soviet yoke on the countries of Eastern Europe created an independent, democratic momentum that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Long term reasons for the fall we’re the low output of crops and consumer goods. -
9/11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States. There were about 3,000 deaths due to the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon. Some of the motivations for the attack Al-Qaeda cited were: U.S. support of Israel, the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and sanctions against Iraq.