Cold war timeline

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    arriving of the comunism to china

    The seizure of political power in China by Mao Tse Tung took a 180 degree turn in the highest echelons in Chinese territory.
    At the beginning, China came from an extensive conflict with Japan, and later, it resumed internal fighting with the civil war.(it doesn´t specify date)
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    nuclear essays

    From 1945 to 1991, around almost 2,000 atomic, hydrogen and nuclear bombs were dropped in specific territories, but it was Nevada, United States and Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (USSR), that stood out with deadly emissions from nuclear reactions.
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    The greek civil war

    It took place from 1946 to 1949. The conflict, which broke out shortly after the end of World War II, consisted of a communist-dominated uprising against the established government of the Kingdom of Greece.
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    THE COLD WAR

    Was a period of tension between the two auperpowers
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    space race

    Not only did politics and military conflicts play a leading role in the Cold War, the space race also took part of the pie in the struggle of powers and ambitions. The Cold War was characterized by the space struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, a confrontation that lasted many years.
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    Korean war

    The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. The war ceased with an armistice on 27 July 1953.
  • cuban revolution

    Castro led various rebel movements, such as the Assault on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, with the July 26 Movement (M-26). However, the operation to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista failed and Castro and some Cuban leaders were captured and deported to Mexico.
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    the vietnam war

    The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold War.
  • suez crisis

    The Suez Crisis or Second Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Tripartite Aggression[b] in the Arab world and as the Sinai War in Israel, was a British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.
  • hungarian revolution

    Although the popular movement did not successfully achieve the fall of the communist regime, thanks largely to the Soviet invasion of Hungary, it did give a touch of weakness in Eastern Europe. However, the Soviet intervention in Hungary dealt a severe blow to the revolutionary movement led by Imre Nagy.
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    The build of the berlin wall

    It was a guarded concrete barrier that surrounded West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic.
  • Cuban missiles crisis

    Cuban missile crisis (October 1962), major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
  • the cambridge five

    Espionage had various protagonists throughout modern history, not only in the Cold War, but also in various conflicts of historical events. One of these events that marked the Cold War was the identity of the Cambridge Five, a network of spies who rubbed shoulders in the upper echelons of the United Kingdom.
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    Arab israeli conflict

    During the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict became entangled in the global rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. American policymakers, particularly Henry Kissinger, believed that the Soviets wanted to exploit the Arab-Israeli conflict to drive the West out of the Middle East and dominate the region.
  • Afganistan

    Another indirect Cold War battle occurred in Afghanistan in the late 1970s. In 1978, a small Soviet-backed communist party overthrew the current government and installed a much hated communist government.