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The Formation of the Eastern Bloc
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The Formation of the Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc is a collective term for the former Stalinist puppet countries and colonies in Central and Eastern Europe. In the closing months of World War II and the later half of the 1940s, the Soviet Union oversaw the establishment of Communist regimes throughout central and Eastern Europe. Over the next four decades, those regimes constituted what was informally known as the Eastern bloc. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
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Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese communist leader, Mao Zhedong, declared the creation of the people's Republic of China. In 1945, the leaders of the Nationalist and communist parties, Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong, met for a series of talks on the formation of a post-war government. -
Enactment of Marshall Plan
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Enactment of Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of the Cold War -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift is the international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.The Allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of Germany into a single economic unit. In protest, the Soviet representative withdrew from the Allied Control Council. -
Korean War
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Korean War
World War II divided Korea into a Communist, northern half and an American-occupied southern half, divided at the 38th parallel. 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
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Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt led by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement. It was against the government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He was replaced by a revolutionary government led by Castro. -
Vietnam War
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War can be considered a "proxy" war in the Cold War. Although the Soviet Union and the United States did not directly go to war, they each supported a different side in the war. The Viet Cong were Vietnamese rebels in the South who fought against the Southern Vietnam government and the United States. -
Hungarian Uprising
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Hungarian Uprising
On the 5th November 1944, Soviet troops invaded Hungary in order to liberate it from Nazi rule. In 1949, Mátyás Rákosi; a hard-line communist, took over and imposed harsh restrictions on the native Hungarians. The new Hungarian Government imposed Free Speech and Religion, Democracy and Freedom -
Building of the Berlin Wall
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Building of the Berlin Wall
n an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion occurred on April 17, 1961, when 1400 CIA-backed Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion at a beach on the south coast of Cuba called the Bay of Pigs.The CIA funded, armed, trained and transported 1,400 men to invade Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 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. -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
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Soviet War in Afghanistan
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978–1980. At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Tienanmen Square Massaccre
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Tienanmen Square Massacre
In 1989, after several weeks of demonstrations, Chinese troops entered Tienanmen Square on June 4 and fired on civilians. Estimates of the death toll range from several hundred to thousands. -
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
In 1987 President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Berlin where he asked the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to "Tear down this Wall!" Around that time the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse. They were losing their hold on East Germany. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
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Fall of the Soviet Union
The end of the Cold War. When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985, no one predicted the revolution he would bring. A dedicated reformer, Gorbachev introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika to the USSR. -
Postwar Occupation and Division of Germany
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Postwar Occupation and Division of Germany
After its defeat in World War II, Germany was divided into four zones under the control of the United States, Britain, France and the former Soviet Union. The postwar development of Germany turned out to be different from the settlement of the Potsdam Conference. The Powers failed to adhere to what they had decided in the conference and began to pursue their own interest in their occupation zones.
