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Nuculear arms rate
http://www.audifaz.com/coldwar/cold-bomb.jpgThe Americans and the russians both had very good nuclear arms.. The americans started out with the atomic bomb then the russians got it. -
NATO
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Eatern European Independence
http://countries-of-europe.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Eastern-europe.gif[ http://countries-of-europe.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Eastern-europe.gif](http:// )In 1988 and 1989 under public pressure the communist government more openly.In 1980 Lech Walesa organized Solidarity, and independent labor union. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Soviet Union, and Poland where all in this fight. -
Korean war
On this day United nations troops landed on the beaches around the port of Inch'on, behind enemy lines. These U.S led troops quickly captured Koreas north-south rail lines and cut off North Korean troops from their supply of food and ammuniton. -
Warsaw Pact
The soviet Union responded by forming its own military alliance, with the soviet union and 7 satelites in eastern europe. -
Soviet Union Falls
Stalin emerged from WW2 and he continued to fill forced labor camps. Under stalin soviets enjoyed greater freedom of speech. This is still very bad for the people because they are still putting people in forced labor camps, the agrucilter and food went down. and the people lost there jobs. -
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Cinese civil war/ great leap forward
http://www.enghunan.gov.cn/abouthunan/CultureArts/Celebrities/200809/W020080928386085465524.jpgMao led a program know as the Great leap forward. He urged people to make a superhuman effort to increase farm and industrial output In an attmept to make agriculture more efficient, he created communes. -
Communist Cuba
Castro led his guerrilla army to victory andset about transforming the country. -
The Berlin Wall
In east Germany they became communist so the people in this country flead to west Germany, The east gemans didnt like this so they put up baracades and wires but thay didnt work. So then the east thought to put up a huge wall so you could not get over to west Germany or even see it. But then that didnt work so they added wires and barb wire and elitric wire above this wall. over 50 people died in the first year this wall was built. -
Communist Cuba 2
U.S president JFK supported an invasion attempt by the U.S trained Cuban exiles. The bay of pigs invasion, or its known for the bay they came ashore. -
Missile Crisis
The soviet union sent nuclear missiles to Cuba. JFK responded by imposinga naval blockade that prevented further soviet shipments. -
Vietnam Conflict
South Vietnamese commandos conducted raids on North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin. The following day, the North Vietnamese attacked a nearby U.S Navy destroyer, the Maddox, which they mistakenly belived had assisted the South Vietnamese raids.Three days later sailors on the Maddox thought that they had been attacked a seod time, although it seems likely that their and radar equipment were malfunctioning due to heavy seas. -
"Little red book"
In response to the great leap forward teenagers formed bands of red gaurds. Waving copies of this book Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung Red gaurds attacked those they considered bourgeois. -
Soviets in Afghanistan
Mikhail Gorbachev, came to power in the Soviet Unioin. With the ecomony in really bad shape and the war dragging on in Afghanistan, Gorbachev was eager to bring about reforms. These reforms where called glasnost, or openness. He ended censorship and encouraged people to discuss the countrys problems openly. And he also urged perestroika, or restructuring, of the government and economy. -
Soviets in Afganistan 2
The remaining Soviet republics separted to form 12 in dependent nations, in addition to the three Baltic states.
