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During China's war with Japan, Chiang Kai-shek had moved his forces deep into the interior, leaving a political vacuum in the east to be filled by the Communists.
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the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945
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Buffer states, with reference both to when they were non-communist states before World War II, and to when they were communist states after World War II. #Detente
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An extension of military and economic aid to Greece in 1947 plunged the United States into deep involvement in Greek
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The system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe
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A program that the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries.
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The first major international crises of the Cold War.
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an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold Wa
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Military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949
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The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” #DominoTheory
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950. #MutallyAssuredDestruction
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the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh #ContainmentTheory
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A covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence
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was an underground political party in Portuguese Angola founded in October 1955.
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A defence treaty signed in Warsaw.
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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
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Was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France
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A nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.
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A 13-day (October 16-28 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment
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October 16, 1964, China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb.
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The rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War.
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U.S. forces were completely withdrawn. Unfortunately, this did not end the war for the Vietnamese and the fighting continued until April 1975 when Saigon fell to the communists.
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The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union.
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A conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
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The phrase evil empire was first applied to the Soviet Union in 1983 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy
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A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.
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Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. #DominoTheory
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The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.
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The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
