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2.Korean Conflict
MapKorea forces manage to push the United Nation back to the 38th parallel. In 1953, there was a armistice signed by both sideds. There was a demilitarized zone created, where no military forces could be near. No peace treaty was ever signed. Korea never came together again, they stayed separated. -
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1.Korean Conflict
MapKorea was split into two parts, North Korea and South Korea, which were also two different sides of the Cold War. It was split along the 38th parallel of latitude. North Korea was communist, ruled by Kim II Sung. South Korea on the other hand was led by a noncommunist leader, Syngman Rhee. North Koreans continued to move until the United Nations stopped them at the Pusan Perimeter. The North Korean forces surrendered and the United Nations moved up to the Yalu River. In 1950-51 Chinese and North -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
In the year of 1949 a new military alliance was formed. They called it the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It included the United States, Canada, and ten other countries. If any of them were attacked, they were supossed to help one another. -
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2. Chinese Civil War
Chinese Civil WarIt did not work and an estimated 55 million Chinese starved to death. China recovered from the Great Leap Forward by make the communes smaller. Mao also made the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Because of this, workers were forced to do manual labor on farms or in labor camps. Schools and factories were closed and the economy slowed down. He made the army restore order because the civil war threatened. -
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Nuclear Arms Race
Nuclear BombThe arms race started right after World War II. In 1949, not only did the United States have nuclear power, so did the Soviet Union. Four years later both developed hydrogen bombs. Each side competed to see if they could match each others weapons. The world was in fear of nuclear doom. -
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1.Chinese Civil War
Chinese Civil WarCommunists took control of China, which is a large portion of the world's people. Mao Zedong led the communist forces which fought against the Nationalists (led by Jiang Jieshi) in a civil war. The victory came to the Communist's. The Nationalists fled to Taiwan because of the loss. Tibet's religious leader, Dalai Lama, had to flee the country because of th Communist's victory. Mao created the program Great Leap Forward, which was meant to increase farm and industrial output. -
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The Berlin Wall
Berlin WallThe city of Berlin was divided in two, West Berlin and East Berlin. The low-paid East Germans fled to West Berlin because they did not like communism. East Germany bulit a wall to stop them from feeling to the other side. It was a huge concrete barrier with barbed wire and gaurds. This shows that workers have to be forced from not fleeing. -
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Cuba Goes Communist
CubaFidel Castro led his army to victory and started to change the counrty, this is know as the Cuban Revolution which the Soviet Union supported. The Cuban's now have very little political freedom. Some people that did not like this were put in jail. The United States thought that if Cuba became communists that the United States would eventually too. They did not like this and John F. Kennedy tried to put a stop to it. -
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1.Vietnam Conflict
Vietnam Vietnam became a part of the Cold War in 1954. Americans made the domino theory because they saw that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause governments across Southeast Asia to go communist too. They did not like the idea of this and wanted to stop it. Ho Chi Minh wanted to make Vietnam come togeth and he was determined, it turned into a major conflict in the Cold War. The guerrillas attacks made it -
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2.Vietnam Conflict
Vietnam difficult for the Americans because some of the villigers were guerrillas. President Johnson made America end their involvement in the war. They signed a peace treaty and the United Stated left and North Vietnam agreed to not send anymore troops to the south. Two years later South Vietnam was conquered and the country was reformed. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union created thier own military alliance called the Warsaw Pact. Seven satelltes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was included in this. The Pact divided Europe into two parts, easter and western. The east was the Soviet countries, they were communists. The west was led by the United States. -
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1.Soviet Union Falls
Soviets Stalin have forced labor camps that he would send the "enemies of the state" to, to work. The Soviets were gaining more freedom of speech. Some Hungarians tried to excape the soviets command but it did not work when Khrushchev sent tanks in to force control.The Soviet union, however, could not keep up with the United States. Both side had very large expenses and nuclear weapons. The Soviets could not -
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2.Soviet Union Falls
Soviets keep up with the US. The new changes that Mikhail Gorbachev formed did not go over very well. He formed glasnot and perestroika to try and help the economy and government. These reforms did not help inprove things. In the end there were 12 independent nationa and thre Baltic States. -
Missle Crisis
Nuclear missles were sent by the Soviet Union to Cuba. A naval blockade was then imposed by President Kennedy. He asked strongly for the Soviets to remove the nuclear missles. Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove them on October 18th, the war was then refrained. -
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1.Eastern Europe Independence
Nicolae Ceausescu In 1968, Hungary began to form economic reforms which later expanded their market economy. By 1989, the communist government decided to allow more freedom that included new political parties. Poland forms Solidarity for and independent labor union. Thousands of East Germans fled to West Germany through Hungary since they had more freedon. Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania's dictator, risisted to step down -
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2.Eastern Europe Independence
Nicolae Ceausescu and he later got executed for that. Czechoslovakia was broke up during World War II by Nazi Germany. It was divided into two parts, the Czchs and the Slovaks. They wanted more independence. In 1992 they decided to have new nations, Slovakia and Czech Republic.. -
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Détente
DétenteDétente was an era of relaxation of tensions. It is to find peace when the situation has rising tensions. The Americans had a strategy for this era. It was to contain the Soviet Union through diplomatic agreements. They did not want the strategy to be with military means. In 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, this was the end to the détente era. -
Soviets in Afghanistan
The Soviets became involved in a long war that was located in Afghanistan in 1979. Afghan landlords and Muslim conservatives thought that the new social reforms and land redistribution would threaten the Islam traditon. Soviet troops took defense when the warlords took up arms. Fighting guerillas was just as a struggle as fighting mujahedins. The American government began to give troops modern weapontry to the mujahedins.This caused the Soviet Union to have many deaths and few successes.
