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Warsaw Pact is formed
It was the Communist counteraction to North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as quite a potential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism. -
World War II Ends
On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender -
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Cold War
A war that occurred after World War II. The war was between the Eastern and Western Bloc. The United States and the Soviet Union fought together during the war -
Winston Churchill delivers the Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill the British Prime Minister, gave his speech to express the division of Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic Western Europe -
US and Britain break the Soviet blockade of West Berlin with the Berlin Airlift
The main cause of the Berlin Blockade was the Cold War, which was just getting started. Stalin was taking over eastern Europe by salami tactics and Czechoslovakia had just turned Communist (March 1948). On the other side, the USA had just adopted the Truman Doctrine to 'contain' the USSR. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed
An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
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Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
US is defeated and humiliated at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Berlin Wall is Built
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with the results of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was torn down as a symbol of the fall of the repressive East German communist government. When East Germans were finally allowed to freely enter West Germany, on Nov. 9, 1989, thousands of Germans responded emotionally by demolishing the wall with sledgehammers, pickaxes and other implements. -
Germany is reunited
With the gradual waning of Soviet power in the late 1980s, the Communist Party in East Germany began to lose its grip on power. Tens of thousands of East Germans began to flee the nation, and by late 1989 the Berlin Wall started to come down. -
Soviet Union Collapses (Establishment of the Russian Federation)
The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991. It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
