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korean war
forgotten warThe nation of korea was also split between the north and the south. they were also split because the north was comunists and the south was democratic. this created what is known as the korean war -
NATO
The United states, Canada, and ten other countris formed a military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This alliance was basically if one country got atacked te other countres would come to help them -
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The nuclear arms race and the detente
After world war 2 the united states was the only nuclear power country but then in 1949 the soviet union had also developed nuclear weapons. Bot sides then engaged in a race to match each others new weopons.Detente meant relaxatin of tensions . the era of the detente ten ended in 1979 when the soviet union invaded afghanistan -
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chinese civil war
red chinathe countrty of china had a civil war between if china should become part of the soviet unions comunism or not. -
Warsaw pact
The warsaw was a military alliance that included the soviet union and seven sattelite countrys but unlike te Nato waas often invoked by the soviet union -
cominist cuba
castro lead the armed uprising of the corupt dictator of cuba, he took away cubans rights and looked to the soviet union for some help -
Berlin wall
Berlin became the key focus of the cold war . The city was split into the democratic west berlin and the communist east berlin. IN 1961 the east built the berlin wall for a symbol of defeat because all of their east berliners were running over to the west -
cuban missile crisis
the soviet union started to ship nuclear missiles into cuba. The U.S then set up a naval blockade to keep them from sending more and eventually the soviet union pulled all of the missles out of cuba -
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vietnam war
vietnam warthe vietnam war is very similar to the korean in which the country is divided between the north and the south north being comunists and south being democratic which caused a war -
eastern europe independence
eastern europe gained theyre independence from the soviet union. even though at first they were all for comunism because at first it helped them they got sick and tired of it and finally broke free -
soviets ain Afghanistan
the soviet union in 1979 invaded the country of afghanistan. the soviets had to fight mujadeens which are muslim religious fighters because they thought this war had to do with religion
