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nato and warsaw pact
in 1949 us and canada and 9 other countries formed an alliance. They pledged to help each other if any of them were attaked. -
Nuclear Arms race and Detente
Beggining at the end of ww1. Us and Soviet union began a race to match or top each others new weponds. The result was a balance of terror. people lived in constant fear of nuclear destruction. -
Chinese civil war
Communist forces in china led by Maos Zedong fought a civil war against the nationalist led by jiang Jieshi. Maos forces had won and they set up the republic for the people of china. this republic discouaged use of buddhism confucianism and other traditional chinese ways. -
Korean conflict
after ww II Korea was divided in to communist north Korea led by Kim Sung and Non communist south korea led by Syngaman Rhee. in June north korea attacked the south in july the US stepped into help south Korea. -
Vietnam Conflict
Vietnam divided into two. In north vietnam there were the Commmunists and in south Vietnam there weret the noncommunists. the united states ruled with south vietnam. -
Warsaw pact
in 1955 soviet union responded to nato by forming its own alliance called the warsaw pact. Soviets resorted to keep their satites in order. -
Soviet Union Falls
Soviet Communism was bad. the soviet union backed out of wwIl.It still brought few rewards to the Soviet union because Stalin stillcontinued to forced labor camps enimies. -
Cmmunist Cuba and Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro took over the country and transformed iy into communist. Known as the Cuban Revolution -
Eastern Europe Independence
The soviet union Maintaind control over Eastern Europe. Many easter europeans opposed communist rules. later Gorbachev Decleared that he would not interfear with Eastern Europes reforms. -
Berln wall
!961 Berlin was split into two sections. west Berlin being democratic and eas Berlin being Communist.in 1961 east germany built a wall that seald off west berlin. The wall was built to keep people from fleeing. -
Missile Crissis
Soviet union sent nuclear missils to cuba. President Kennedy drered a blockade to prevent further shipments and demanded that the soviet union remoce the missiles. this caused the wourld to fear a nuclear war. Eventually the removed the missles -
soviets in Afghanistan
The soviet Union got into a long war with afghanistan. The soviets tryed to moderenize the islamic country.they did thing that would reduce the power of regional landlords. Afghan landlords commanded armed men as warlords.
