Timeline

By KHeimstead

  • Gandhi

    Gandhi Is Born.

  • Gandhi

    Gandhi and 2,000 fellow Indians in Johannesburg burn their registration cards in protest.

  • Alexandra Kim

    Alexandra Kim dies.

  • Korean Communism

    Alexandra Kim, Yi Dong-Wi, Kim Rip, and other Korean independence fighters establish the first Korean Communist Party
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    Alliance

    The alliance established between the USSR and the United States during the Second World War broke down in 1947.

  • Gandhi

    Gandhi was murdered.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Missiles discovered by the United States along the Cuban border

  • Blockade

    President John F. Kennedy announces to the American people that he has ordered a blockade of Cuba in response to the discovery that Soviet missiles were being installed on the island. This blockade will hold off any trade or ships attempting to come into the United States.

  • Crisis Ends

    Kennedy and Khrushchev had reached a settlement and people on both sides of the conflict breathed a collective but wary sigh of relief. The Cuban missile sites were dismantled and, in return, Kennedy agreed to close U.S. missile sites in Turkey.
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    Revolution Of 1989

    Revolution of Central and Eastern Europe to fight against communism .