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Yalta Conference
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World War II ends in Europe
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Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
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First East European Communist Government
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Communist Seize Power
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO
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Communist win Chinese Civil War
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U.S. and U.N. fight North Korea
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Korean War ends
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U.S. overthrows Iranian government
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Red Army crushes Hungarian Revolution
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Soviet launches Sputnik
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Chinese Atomic bomb
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U.S. sends troops to Dominican Republic
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Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising
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Richard Nixon visits China
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South Vietnam falls to Communist forces
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Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan
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U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations
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Solidarity Union formed
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U.S. invades Grenada
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Hungary declares a non-Communist government
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East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany
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Berlin Wall destroyed
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Soviet Union abolished