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Korean Conflict Part Two
MapAn armistice was signed by both sides in 1953 to stop fighting. No peace treaty was ever written so there is still a North and south Korea today. -
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Korean Conflict Part One
Korean ConflictAfter Japan was conquered, the Soviets and the Americans agreed to dived Korea. North Korea was Communist and ruled by a dictator named Kim II Sung. South Korea was noncommunist but ruled by Syngman Rhee. Both sides wanted to rule the whole country. In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea.The United States helped out South Korea and stopped them at the Pusan Perimeter. Then South Korea pushed back North Korea to the Yalu River. The war soon turned into a stalemate. -
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Chinese Civil War Part One
Mao ZedongAfter the Civil War Mao Zedong led his communist forces to get China under Communist control. Nationalism lost popularity because it led to ecconomic hardship while Communism was redistibuting land to poor people. Zedong built a Communist one-party totalitarian state in the People's Republic of China. From 1958 to 1960 Mao urged people to make a superhuman effort to increase farm and industrial out put. This was known as the Great Leap Forward. It failed because they produced low-qaulity goods. -
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Chinese Civil War Part Two
Chinese Civil WarIt also caused food shortages and as many as 55 million chinese starved to death. Mao also tried to get rid of Chineses' bourgeois by having the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This didn't work because teenagers formed bands of Red Gaurds. By 1960 The Soviets split from China. Then, in 1979 The united States set up formal diplomatic relations with China. -
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NATO and Warsaw Pact
MapThe North Atlantice Treaty Organization was the military alliance that was set up in 1949. The United States, Canada most of Western Europe formed an alliance and agreed to fight together if any of them were attacked by the Soviet Union. Since the United States was the most powerful they dominated the group. The Warsaw Pact was The Communist countries reaction to NATO. It was formed in 1955 to improve military coordination.The Soviets controlled the organization and had troops in other countries -
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Nuclear Arms Race and Detente Part One
Soviet Union and United StatesUntil 1949, the United States was the only country that had nuclear powers. Then, the Soviet Union developed some. By 1953, both sides had hydrogen bombs which are more powerful than atomic bombs. This created a "balance of terror". Both sides knew that if they started bombing each other, both sides would be destroyed. People lived in constant fear of nuclear doom. To prevent this, they had Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. -
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Nuclear Arms Race and Detente Part Two
GraphIt was signed in 1972 and 1979 between the United States and Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear weapons each had. This limited the number of Anti-ballistic missles each could shoot because they were a threat to the "ballance of terror". The control agreements led to the era of detente in the 1970s. It was a period of time where they relaxed their tensions. Detente ended in 1979. -
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Vietnam Conflict Part One
Vietnam ConflictAfter World War II France took over Vietnam. But, they faced guerrill forces that were led by a man who had fought the Japanese named Ho Chi Minh. In 1954 it became part of the Cold War. They agreed to split Vietname. The north was controlled by communist government and the south was noncommunist and led by Ngo Dinh Diem, The Americans believed that if communism won it would sread to everywhere. They called this the domino theory. -
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Vietnam Conflict Part Two
FlagAmerica stepped in to help the South. They sent supplies and troops to help. They began bombing targets in North Vietnam. North Vietnam got aid from the Soviet Union and China, but no troops. Finally, the United States were tired of fighting so they signed the Paris Peace Accord in 1973. The north ended up beating the south and they reunited in 1976/ -
Berlin Wall
After World War 2 Berlin was split. West Berlin was Democratic and East Berlin was Communist. People in East Berlin, unhappy with their lives were just walking over to West Berlin for a better life. It was very easy to switch from East Berlin to West Berlin. Because of this, East Berlin built a wall to keep the people of East Berlin in so that the Communism would remain strong. While the wall was being built people still tried to switch sides and go to West Berlin. -
Communist Cuba and Missle Crisis Part One
In the 1950s Fidel Castro organized an armed rebellion agaist the dictator who ruled Cuba. Then in 1959, he led his guerrilla army to victory and transformed Cuba into a Communist country. He nationalized usinesses and put most land under government control. He sought support of the Soviet Union. This scared the United States because they didn't want Communism that close to them. They tried and failed to invade cuba in 1961. -
Communist Cuba and Misslile Crisis Part Two
The Soviet Union sent nuclear misles to Cuba so they could protect themselves. United States President Kenedy put a naval blockade to any more shipments and demand them to take the nuclear missiles back. The whole world was afraid of nuclear war. Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev averted war and removed the missiles from Cuba. -
Soviets in Afghanistan
The Soviets supported the Afghan government when it tried to modernize the nation. This included social reforms and land redistribution. This reduced the power of Afghan landlords so armed men and warlords took arms against the government. They argued that it threatened Islamic tradition. The Soviets moved in to help the Afghan government. It turned out to be harder tan they thought it would be. The American government smuggled weapons to help the mujahedin. The Soviets eventually gave up. -
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Soviet Union Falls
The Soviet Union FallsAfter their defeat in Eastern Europe caused countries to really think about whether or not they wanted to be communist. In China, they didn't have any political reforms, they worked to make communism stronger. Vietnam opened itself to the world and established diplomatic relations with the United States. North Korea refused reforms. Since Cuba didn't get a lot of help from the Soviet and America still was crippling them, their economy deteriorated. The Soviet Union lost a log of power. -
Eastern European Independence Part One
The Soviet Union had control over Eastern Europe. They opposed communist rule. Hungary gradually made slight ecomonic reforms and then in 1988 and 1989 gave them greater freedoms. Poland led the resistance. They demanded political and economic change. They weren't strong enough to do this. East Germany blocked out Soviet publications and allowed their people to watch TV broadcasts from West Germany. This showed them how bad they really had it. -
Eastern European Independce Part Two
When the boarder with Austria opened, thousands of people fled to West Germany. The Berlin Wall was then opened.The Warsaw Pact was disolved in1991. The European Countries were finally free.
