WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It included the USSR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany and Albania. Western countries were not part of it. This only made the feeling of east versus west even stronger. The world was now very much divided between two opposing sides who had different ideas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Major crises of this phase included the 1948–1949 Berlin Blockade, the 1945–1949 Chinese Communist Revolution, the 1950–1953 Korean War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1961 Berlin Crisis, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and the 1964–1975 Vietnam War.

Detailed explanation-3: -The timeline on the right shows three of the major conflicts of the Cold War era. These conflicts took place in Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam. The fighting in Korea and Vietnam became full scale wars that lasted many years.

Detailed explanation-4: -July: Potsdam Conference-Germany was officially partitioned into four zones of occupation. September 4: USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan October-November : Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. May : Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory Page 4 November : John F.