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Formation of the Eastern Bloc
The Soviet Union oversaw the establishment of Communist regimes through central and Eastern Europe. Over the next four decades, those regimes constituted what was informally known as the Eastern bloc. -
Greek Civil War
The Germans, still there from World War II, began to withdraw from Greece because of this and Stalin gave no help to the communists, even though they were the powerful group in Greece. The fighting started between the British and the EAM. From 1944 each side targeted the power vacuum resulting from the end of German-Italian occupation during World War II. The struggle became one of the first conflicts of the Cold War. -
Postwar occupation and division of Germany
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces ending world war 2 for Germany. Then entire country was in ruins, they had no other option. -
Enactment of Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act, also known as the Marshall Plan. This was American Aid for Western Europe. The U.S gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe. -
Berlin blockade and Airlift
The Berlin blockade was the first international crisis of the war. WW2 Germany, and the Soviet Union blocked the Western allies' railways, roads, and canal access to west Berlin. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
It was the culmination of the Chinese Communist Party's drive to power after its founding in 1921. Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Chiang Kai-shek, 600,000 Nationalist troops, and about two million Nationalist-sympathizer refugees retreated to the island of Taiwan. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. 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. -
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. . It began when Fidel Castro led a force of rebels against the government of Fulgencio Batista, the tyrannical military dictator of the time. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam War, a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The causes of the Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
Building 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. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. It happened when the Soviet Union began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962. Together with the earlier Berlin Blockade, this crisis is seen as one of the most important confrontations of the Cold War. -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
In the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the communist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan against a growing insurgency. The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, Insurgent groups fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government. The mujahideen groups were backed primarily by the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, making it a Cold War proxy war. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China. Troops with automatic rifles and tanks killed at least several hundred demonstrators trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square. The number of civilian deaths has been estimated variously from 180 to 10,454. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
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. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union officially granted self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union. It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
