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Buffer States of the USSR
Poland and other states between Germany and the Soviet Union have sometimes been described as 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. -
Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima and Nagasaki had gotten bombed by a USA made atomic bomb that did major damage to both of the cities -
U.S. aid to Greece
The extension of military and economic aid to Greece in 1947 plunged the United States into deep involvement in Greek affairs -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
U.S. aid to turkey
the United States began giving large amounts of aid to Greece and Turkey under the Truman doctrine -
Marshall plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin aircraft was a military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air. -
NATO established
NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies -
Communist Win Over China
The Americans reinstated Chiang Kai-shek as ruler of China, and tried to organise a truce between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, but after the surrender of Japan a civil war broke out, which the Communists won after a vicious struggle. -
Korean War
Korean War was fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist North Korea. The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Coup in Iran
The overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. -
Coup In Guatemala
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. -
Communist Angola
The Angolan War of Independence began as an uprising against forced cotton cultivation, and became a multi-faction struggle for the control of Portugal's Overseas Province of Angola among three nationalist movements and a separatist movement. -
Communist Angola
The Angolan War of Independence began as an uprising against forced cotton cultivation, and became a multi-faction struggle for the control of Portugal's Overseas Province of Angola among three nationalist movements and a separatist movement. -
Warsaw pact formed
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO -
Beginning of the Troop in Vietnam
The Vietnam War, 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. -
Hungary Rebellion
A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
Sputnik
Former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite. This begins the space race -
Suez Canal Crisis
The Israelis soon were joined by French and British forces, which nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict, and damaged their relationships with the United States. Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis.