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CONFERENCE AT YALTA
MEETING BETWEEN STALIN 'USSR' FDR 'USA' AND CHURCHILL 'UK' TO DIVIDE GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE -
BERLIN AIRLIFT
THE US WAS DROPPING OFF FOOD SO THE PEOPLE IN BERLIN WOULDNT STRAVE -
MARSHALL PLAN 1948-1951
THE PLAN SPARKED ECONOMIC RECOVERY -
MAO ZEDONG COMES TO POWER
MAO GAINED A GREAT AMOUNT OF SUPPORT ON THE LONG MARCH. -
KOREAN WAR JUNE 25,1950-JULY 27,1953
THE KOREA PENINSULAN WAS DIVIDED ALONG THE 38TH PARRALLEL, WITH COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA AND THE ANTI-COMMUNIST SUPPORTING SOUTH KOREA. ON JUNE 25 1950 THE NORTH INVADED THE SOUTH. THE AMISTICE BROUGHT AN END TO THE KOREAN WAR. -
SPUTNIK
WAS THE FIRST ARTIFICAL EARTH SATELLITE. THE SOVIET UNION LAUNCHED IT INTO AN ELLIPTICAL LOW EARTH ORBIT ON DECEMBER 4 OCTOBER 1957 -
CASTRO COMES TO POWER
ON FEB.16, 1959 CASTRO WAS SWORN IN AS PRIME MINISTER OF CUBA. -
VIETNAM WAR 1959-1975
NATIONALIST FORCES TRYING TO UNITE VIETNAM WITH A COMMUNIST GOVERMENT AND THE U.S TRYING TO PREVENT COMMUNISM SPREADING. -
THE BAY OF PIGS 17-19 APRIL 1961
THE US AND CUBA FOUGHT, EXILES HAD BEEN KILLED AND THE REST HAD BEEN TAKEN AS PRISONERS. -
BERLIN WALL
TO PERMANENTLY CLOSE OFF ACESS TO THE WEST, FOR 28 YEARS. ALSO NAMED THE "IRON CURTAIN" -
REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA 1961-1990
THE REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA WAS A CONTINUOS WAR TO LIBERATE NICARAGUA FROM DICTATORS. SANDINISTAS FOUGHT SEVERAL YEARS WITH CONTRAS TO LIBERATE NICARAGUA UNTIL ACHIEVED IN 1988. -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
in the USSR — was a 14-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. It was one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. It is also the first documented instance of the threat of mutual assured destruction (MAD) being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement. -
KHMER ROUGE TAKES OVER CAMBODIA
THE KHMER ROUGE WANTED EVERYONE TO BE EQUAL, THEY WANTED TO TRANSFORM CAMBODIA INTO A RUROL, CLASS LESS SOCIETY. -
SOVIET UNION INVADES AFGHANISTAN
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989 -
IRAN IRAQ WAR
IRAQ INVADED IRAN, THE WAR COST BOTH SIDES IN LIVES AND ECONOMIC DAMAGE. -
GORBACHEV COMES TO POWER MARCH 15,1989 - DECEMBER 25, 1991
IN 1931 MIKHAIL S. GORBACHEV BECAME GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION, HE INTRODUCED TWO POLICIES "PERESTROKIA" (RESTRUCTURING) AND "GLASNOST" (OPENESS) IN A FEW YEARS THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSED. -
SOVIET UNION COLLAPSES 1989-1991
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES TORN THE TWO APART, THE SOVIET UNION LOST THEIR WAR AGAINST THE U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION TO THE WEST. -
BERLIN WALL FALL
THERE WAS A NEWS BROADCAST SAYING PEOPLE COULDGO THROUGH, SO HUGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WENT TO THE WALL TO CELEBRATE
