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Chinese Civil War
The Guomindang moved its government from Guangzhou (Canton) to Wuhan on January 1, 1927, but the right wing moved to Nanchang instead. Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) went to Wuhan and met with Borodin and other leftists on January 11, but they could not agree. The northern general Feng Yuxiang had visited Moscow and joined the Guomindang. He moved from his base in Shaanxi and invaded Henan. Zhang Zuolin had mobilized an army of 150,000 in Beijing in late 1926, but he changed his mind about march -
Berlin Airlift
In response, the Western Allies organised the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin.The agreements split the defeated nation into four “allied occupation zones”: They gave the eastern part of the country to the Soviet Union and the Western part to the U.S. and Great Britain. -
Berline Blockade
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. -
Formation of NATO
The NATO was formed tohelp defend against the soviet union. The NATO as it raised the apparent threat of all Communist countries working together. And forced the alliance to develop concrete military plans. -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
The NSC-68 was a 58paged top secret document issued to the U.S. in april if 1950. It was one of the most significant statements of American policy in the Cold War. NSC-68 largely shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War for the next 20 years, and involved a decision to increase the pressure of Containment against global Communist expansion a high priority. -
Korean War
was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II.+ -
president truman fired general macarthur
In 1951, President Truman and his advisors were preparing to engage North Korea and China in peace negotiations, in an attempt to resolve the ongoing conflict. General Douglas MacArthur, -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact. A mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Cuban missle crisis
The cuban missile crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
