H Period Cold War Timeline

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  • Japan begins influencing Korea

  • Korean Empire Created

    independent Korea

  • Japan Occupies Korea

  • Stalin becomes GenSec

  • Death of Lenin

  • Period: to

    USSR First 5 Year Plan

    Collectivized farmland, put people into industrial labor, and resistant kulaks were killed

  • Japan Enslaves Many Koreans

  • Reza Khan abdicates in favor of son Mohammed Reza Shah

  • Vietnam Conflict Starts

    Western countries occupy the South. China occupies the North

  • Division of North and South Korea

    USSR takes North, USA takes South

  • WWII Ends

  • Vietnam War Begins

  • Independent Govs of North and South Korea Est.

  • Kim Il Sung becomes leader of North Korea

  • Israel Declares Independence

  • Arab League Invades Israel

  • East and West Germany Created

  • Period: to

    Berlin Blockade

  • Syngman Rhee becomes President of South Korea

  • Mao Zedong Wins China

  • North Korea invades South Korea

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Mossadeq Nationalizes Iran's Oil Industry

  • British Boycott Iranian Oil

    begins global trend

  • Mohammed Mosadeq Elected PM of Iran

  • Nasser has a Coup

    Makes Egypt a Democracy

  • Fidel Castro attacks Military Barracks

  • Period: to

    Cuban Revolution

  • Shah Returns to Iran post-CIA coup

  • 17th Parallel Ceasefire in Vietnam

  • GB, FR, and IS invade and occupy Egypt

  • Nkrumah is Ousted from Ghana

  • Nasser Nationalizes the Suez Canal

  • Period: to

    China's Great Leap Forward

  • Ghana Gains Independence

  • Fidel Castro Takes Control of Cuba

  • Congo Gains Independence

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    USA backs Cuban exiles to invade Cuba, utter failure

  • Berlin Wall begins Construction

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Soviet provide Cuba with nukes, causing tension between Cuba and the USA. USA blockades Cuba.

  • Military Coup Ousts Diehm in Vietnam

  • Period: to

    Mbuntu Holds Power in Congo

  • Chinese Cultural Revolution Begins

  • Mao Zedong Dies

  • Shah's Government Collapses

  • New Iranian Constitution Approved

    Free Election

  • Khomeni Returns to Iran, Recognized as Leader

  • Zimbabwe Gains Independence

  • Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power in USSR

    perestroika, glasnost, lowers defense spending, non-intervention plan
  • Period: to

    USSR Reforms Political Practice

    Congress, free elections

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

  • Reunification of Germany

  • Boris Yeltsin Elected President of USSR

    Officially dissolves USSR