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Potsdam Conference
In 1945, leaders met outside of Berlin.Harry Truman of the United States, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered to demand Japan's surrender, set up a framework for postwar Europe. Each leader was trying to get the strongest position, most influence for their country, but they fell into two camps. The PC set up a competition between capitalist Western powers (the U.S. and G.B.) and the Soviet Union.
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Korean War
North/South Korea fought the war from June 25, 1950-53. Countries were involved, North/South Korea fought of Communism. After Japan lost WW1, the Soviet Union took over the North. America took control over the South. After the war started in 1950, and the North invaded the South, the UNC called for ceasefire to take the North invaders out of the South. Chinese troops entered the war 1950 because they didn’t want allies in the North.
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Vietnam War
Began in 1954 after Vietnam split into parts. North wanted to reunite the country by communism, South didn’t allow this. Communists fought the South, who was soon joined by the US. The US then trained the South having more than 500k troops in the South. But the US left because peace talks started taking place in 1968. January 1973 North and South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and the United States signed an agreement to stop fighting.
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NATO/Warsaw Pact
The treaty was signed 1955 by the Soviet Union, Albania, and Bulgaria. The Soviet Union wanted to establish a better alliance in 1955; because they wanted to be protected from the West; to strengthen the hold of the Soviet Union over its EE satellites; to prevent their seeking close ties with the West. This lead to revival of nationalism, hostility to the Soviet Union in several countries.
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Suez Crisis
1956, a crisis happened in the Middle East after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. This happened because the Americans, British didn’t finance Egypt’s construction. Nasser declared martial law in the canal, taking control. He thought if he took money from the ships passing, it would pay construction. In October, Britain, France tried taking control, they feared that Nasser might cut off shipments. Nasser emerged as a victor.
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Sputnik/Space Race
1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite. U.S. people were shocked because they wanted to be first. It scared countries because they began to feel as if their technology was falling behind. Countries then went into a string of competitions between modern technology. The launch in Sputnik fueled the arms/space race. Each country worked on attacking each other.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
1962, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union were involved in political/military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba. Khrushchev unsure to send missiles to Cuba, but wanted to increase their nuclear weapons. Khrushchev sent a message offering to remove the missiles if the US didn't invade. This only convinced Soviets to invest missiles capable to reach the US.
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Glasnost/Perestroika
The word Glasnost refers to the Soviet policy of open discussion of social and political issues. Gorbachev believed that the opening up of the political system was the only way to overcome inertia in the Soviet political and bureaucratic apparatus. Perestroika referred to the program in the Soviet Union in the 1980s to restructure Soviet political and economic policy.
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