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Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
The Chinese Civil War[nb 2] was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang (KMT) -led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China (CPC). The war began in August 1927, with Chiang Kai-Shek's Northern Expedition, and essentially ended when major active battles ceased in 1950 -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crisis of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. -
Berlin Airlift
In response to the Berlin blockade, the Berlin airlift was created. The Western Allies organised the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. -
Formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
National Security Council Report 68 (NSC-68) was a 58-paged top secret policy paper issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. This was one of the most importmant statements of the American policy during the Cold War. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea. This war was caused by divison of Korea at the end of WWII and from the tensions of the Cold War that happened immediately afterwards. -
President Truman fires General MacArthur
In April 1951, President Truman fired MacArthur and replaced him with Gen. He fired him because he did not support his views on the foreign policy. -
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. The Warsaw Pact included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
Launching of Sputnik
It was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, carrying the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Chernushka, some mice and a guinea pig. During the descent, the mannequin was ejected from the spacecraft in a test of its ejection seat, and descended separately under its own parachute. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
