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Chinese Civil War
During the 1920s, China was in a Civil War (Ignitia.com Editors). This was a very complicated, but simple War, between Mao Zedong and the Communists, and the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek (Ignitia.com Editors). This war was stopped during WWII but was resumed after Japanese soldiers fled from China (Ignitia.com Editors). -
United Nations
In the later years of WWII, The United Nations had been created (Ignitia.com Editors). The UN was created in California and moved to New York City and became official there (Ignitia.com Editors). The United Nations was created for wars and battles to be fought fairly with laws (Ignitia.com Editors). This was also the creation of a "Treaty" throughout the world, Fifty nations signed with the UN and now every nation but two are still with the UN today (Ignitia.com Editors). -
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Beginning of the Cold War
After Stalin had taken control of the peoples votes in Europe by false advertising, President Truman and the other Allies had to act fast (Ignitia.com Editors). Winston Churchill had separated the Communist side east, and Capitalist side west with an "Iron Curtain" (Ignitia.com Editors). The Soviet Union threatened to take over Greece which forced the United States to act and declare war on the Soviet Union (Ignitia.com Editors). -
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Post-WWII
After World War II, Both the USSR and United States were the strongest and most powerful countries in the world, knocking Nazi Germany and the other Axis powers out of the picture (Ignitia.com Editors). Joseph Stalin, the Communist dictator of the Soviet Union had given Europe free rights to vote, but had installed a pro-soviet and pro-Communist movement in most of the allied countries (Ignitia.com Editors). The American President Harry Truman had to act quickly (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Cold War: The First "Battle" in Berlin.
Germany, after WWII was divided into four sections, controlled by four allies, US, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union (Ignitia.com Editors). The Soviet Union had restricted the western allies to access western Berlin, which caused France, US, and Great Britain to battle and re-take over west Berlin (Ignitia.com Editors). This all happened after the wall of Berlin had been set up by the Soviets (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Cold War: Nuclear Arms Race
At this time in the war, the Soviet Union successfully tested their first Nuclear Bomb, at the same time China had fallen into Communist powers (Ignitia.com Editors). American experts had not thought the Soviets had gotten that far in research in such a quick amount of time (Ignitia.com Editors). The Soviet Union was thought to be using spies to steal information on American missiles and bombs (Ignitia.com Editors). -
NATO
In 1949 United States, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, France, and Italy all had created NATO, or North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Ignitia.com Editors). NATO is currently known as the "Modern Day Allies" with the current situation raging between Ukraine and Russia today, but NATO was formed as an alliance very similar to the UN but with many less nations included (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Korean War
North Korea had invaded South Korea, in hoping to unify their original country if they won the war (Ignitia.com Editors). Quickly, North Korea drove South Korea down the Peninsula getting close to win the war (Ignitia.com Editors). The United Nations immediately sent aid to South Korea to balance and win the war (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Cold War: Suez Crisis
In the 1950s the President of Egypt wanted to build a dam for the Nile River but needed funds, so the U.S. offered to help with the funds until Egypt agreed with an arms trade from the Communist country, Czechoslovakia (Ignitia.com Editors). After this, America took back their offer which enraged Egyptian president Gabal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal which forced the allied troops to declare war (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962 Fidel Castro, the Communist dictator of Cuba, thought that the United States would invade Cuba (Ignitia.com Editors). With this at hand, he installed many accounts of ballistic missile bases all around Cuba (Ignitia.com Editors). These missiles targeted major cities in America which became a threat, until the United States would no longer invade Cuba (Ignitia.com Editors).