1991 Collapse of Soviet Union 1950-1953 The Korean War Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1964 – 1973 American Military Involvement In Vietnam Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush Sr. 1960 1970 1980 Cher nen ko Stalin Khrushchev Brezhnev An dro pov Gorbachev 1956 Hungarian Uprising 1961 Berlin Wall Built 1968 Prague Spring: Czechoslovakia 1980-81 Solidarity In Poland 1989 Collapse of Communism In Eastern Europe 1991 Collapse of Soviet Union
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1979-1990s War in Afghanistan: The Afghan gov’t supported by Soviet Forces in fight against US-backed guerrilla fighters 1950-1953 Korean War 1960s-1980s In Central & South America the USA supported anti-Communist regimes (e.g. General Pinochet in Chile). The USSR supported Communist rebels 1956-1989: USSR encounters communist protests from Eastern Bloc countries 1967-1980s: Israel supported by the US gov’t in Middle East conflict w/ Arabs. The USSR supported the Palestinians & Arab states 1965-1973 Vietnam War