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NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Members pledged to help one another if any one of them were attacked. The alliance coinsisted of the United States, Canada, and ten other countries -
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Nuclear Arms Race and Detente part 1
nuclear cold warIn 1949 Soviet Union discovered the development of nuclear weapons. In 1953 both sides (U.S and Soviet Union) had hydrogen bombs. both sides wanted to match the other and this race became known as a "balance of terror". The U.S used more diplomatic ways than any physical fighting and this lead to ABMs, anti-ballistic missles, these missles could shoot down a missle attacking from the opposing side and ABMs limited the number of the missles each side could have. IN 1969, SALT was introduced..... -
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Nuclear Arms Race and Detente part 2
nuclear cold war part 2In 1969, SALT, was intoduced this limited the number of nuclear weapons each side could have. after all this it led to the Detente, or a relaxation of tensions during the 1970s. -
Communist Cuba and Missle Crisis part 2
missles. the U.S hen set up naval blockades to stop the imports of nuclearweapons into Cuba. This was the closest the cold war ever came to being a heated war. After some debate Khrushcher then pulled the Missles out of Cuba. -
Korean Conflict
Korea was divided into two along the 38th parallel latitude line into a north and south quadrant which still remains in place today. The Noth being communist and south being republican they got into major political fights creating the division line -
Communist Cuba and Missile Crisis
In 1950 Fidel Castro organized an armed rebellion against the corrupt dictator who then ruled Cuba. 1959 Castro led his guerrilla army to victory and set about transforming the country, known as the Cuban Revolution. Castro put the lands under government control and severly ristricted cuban's political freedom. Hundreds fleed to Flordia. U.S then invaded Cuba with the newly trained exiles in "the bay of pigs invasion". Cuba asked Soviet Union to help them out and Soviet sent over Nuclear... -
Warsaw Pact
this pact included the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Europe. Unlike NATO the warsaw pact was oftn invoked by the Soviets to keep its satellites in order. the pact more or less cemeneted the division into "eastern" and "western" blocs. -
Berlin wall
Germany was split into two differnt sections the west and east sides, Berlin also divided was smack in the middle of East Germany. The east side was controled by communist soviet union, this helped make East Berlin a ghost of its former self. East Berliners started to flee to the west side to escape the harships. The East commanders couldn't have this so they constructed a wall, the Berlin Wall, to contain the East Berliners. -
Vietnam Conflict
South Vietnamese commandos conducted raids on north veitnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin. Guerrillas, unpaid and nearly untrained soldiers, fought the americans when they came into South Korea. A theory came up during this time called the Domino theory, the view that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism , like a row of dominos. Ho Chi Minh remained determined to unite Vietnam under communist control. -
Eastern European Independence
The Soviet Union had maintained control over many of its servant countries by force, but when Gorbachev intoduced glasnost and perestroika in the Soveit Union, Eastern European powers began to speak of change and of a different world freedom in their countries. As the Soviets cumbeled the European powers under soviet control demanded freedom, this time they got it. -
Soviets in Afghanistan
A long war began in Afghanistan. The Soviet-supported government had tried to modernize the nation. The Mujahedin, or muslim religious warriors, fought back against it. The americans sent supplies over to help them out. Due to it the soviets had years of heavy casualties, high costs, and few successes. -
Soviet Union Falls
The much feared nuclear confrontation between the two superpowers never cameabout, but the end was as clear as any military victory.
