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The 1948 Arab–Israeli War was the final stage of the 1947–49 Palestine war. The war began after the British Mandate for Palestine was issued on May 14, 1948. It ended in Israel winning.

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The Prague Spring was a time period of political liberalization and mass protest in Czechoslovakia, which was a Communist State after WWII. It lasted from Jan 5, 1968 – Aug 21, 1968.

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The Six Day War was fought Jun 5, 1967 – Jun 10, 1967. It was fought between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The war resulted in an Israeli victory.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established on April 4, 1949. The founding countries are United States, Canada, and several Western European countries. The treaty was formed in order to provide collective, international security against the Soviet Union.

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Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a revolt against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. It lasted from October 23 to November 10. The revolution was crushed by the Soviet.

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The Marshall plan became effective on April 3, 1948. It was a U.S. program that aimed to provide Western Europe with financial aid following the end of WWII.

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The Berlin Wall fell in November in November 1991. It fell due to bureaucratic political changes. The fall of the wall left the Soviet led Communist bloc on the verge of a collapse. It also helped initiate a new world order.

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The Korean war was fought between North and South Korea  during Jun 25, 1950 – Jul 27, 1953. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. Neither parties signed a peace treaty.

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The START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Treaty was signed on July 31, 1991, and it became effective December 5, 1994. The Treaty was based around the limitation of strategic offensive arms. It later expired on December 5, 2009.

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Perestroika was a political movement that called for reform in the Soviet Union Communist Party during the 1980's. Within the Soviet, Gorbachev's Glasnost Policies supposedly influenced citizens to publicly discuss issues in the system in order to find solutions.

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The Killing Fields are numerous sites in Cambodia where around one million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge after the end of the Cambodian Civil War. The Khmer Rouge, or the Communist Party of Kampuchea, ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.

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The Warsaw Pact, or the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, lasted from May 14, 1955 to July 1, 1991. The treaty sought to establish mutual defense. The members were the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Domino Theory was most prominent between the 1950s and the 1980s. The theory postulates that if one country became under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would in a 'domino effect'.

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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, lasted from Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist government of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on one side, and the government of South Vietnam and its key ally, the United States, on the other side.

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The Suez Crisis, also known as tripartite aggression in the Arab world and Sinai War in Israel, lasted from October 1956 to March 1957. Essentially, Israel, followed by the UK and France, invaded Egypt in late 1956.

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Mao Zedong, a Chinese Communist, established the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. Up until his death in 1976, Mao Zedong ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China.

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The Berlin Wall was built by the  German Democratic Republic. Its construction started on August 13, 1961. It was built to isolate West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of the surrounding East Germany.

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The Truman Doctrine was presented to Congress on March 12, 1947.  President Harry S. Truman's message's asked for $400 million in military funding and economic guidance for Turkey and Greece.

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The Berlin Airlift was an act of response to the Soviet Blockade of west land routes in Berlin. It refers to the large program of airlifting supplies of essential goods to West Berliners accepted from June 1948 to September 1949.

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The United States invaded Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks of 2001. This action was supported by close allies of the US.

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During WWII, on August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber deployed the world's first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, another one was dropped on Nagasaki. This killed an estimated 40,000 people. The rates of radiation led to higher rates of cancer in the survivors.

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed invasion of Cuba that lasted from Apr 17, 1961 – Apr 19, 1961. It occurred on the Southwest coast of Cuba. It was operated by Cuban Exiles who were against the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted from Oct 16, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962. It was caused by the American discovery of the deployment of the Soviet ballistic missile in Cuba. Essentially, it was a tense, political and military stand off between the Soviet Union and the US.

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Gagarin's Start, Korolev Avenue, Baikonur, Kazakhstan

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Gagarin's Start, Korolev Avenue, Baikonur, Kazakhstan

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Gagarin's Start, Korolev Avenue, Baikonur, Kazakhstan

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During the Cold War, a prominent factor was who could go to outer space fastest and most efficient. The Space Race was a rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union. Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite and the first object made by man to be put into Earth's orbit. It was launched on October 4, 1957.

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COMECON, The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was led by the Soviet Union. It was an economic organization that existed from 1941 to 1949. It was made to organize and maintain the economic growth of eastern European countries belonging to the Soviet bloc.

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The Korean War lasted from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. It came to an end when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement led to the development of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which separates North and South Korea, and allowed prisoners to return.

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The Yalta Conference could also be called the Crimea Conference. It was held from February 4 to 11, 1945. U.S. It was a meeting of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. They discussed the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

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The United Nations was founded on October 24, 1945 in San Francisco, CA. The United Nations was founded to maintain international peace and security, have healthy relations with nations, and to be a core of international unity.

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The Berlin Blockade was the first prominent international crisis of the cold war. It went on from Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949. It was caused by the Soviet blocking the Western Allies' rail road and canal access to the parts of Berlin under Western control.