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Balshevik Revolution
(often called the October Revolution)
-Date: November 7,1917-November 8,1917
Result:
-Creation of soviet Russia
-End of Russian Provisional Government, Russian Republic and dual power
Start of the Russian civil war
- All russian congress of soviet, becomes supreme governing the body. -
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The Cold War
The Cold War was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. The whole Cold War is defined as a worldwide power struggle. -
Potsdam Conference
-The final war meeting of leaders that allied the "Big Three" nations and dealt chiefly with the future of Germany and the role of the Soviet Unionagainst Japan.
-The british elections were one of the most stunning upsets, the conservatives were ousted.
-July 26, the United States and British leaders issued a surrender against Japan.
-The allies reached agreement on 3 D's (democratization, denazification, and demilitarization). -
Beginning of the Cold War
-The iron curtain has decended across the continent, for U.S., Britain, and other western powers.
-At the end of the war, Germany divided into four occupation zones with Great Britain and U.S.
-The division of Berlin caused a major conflict
-The civil war in Greece prompted the U.S. leaders to adopt a more organized plan to stop the spread of communism
-True men pledged financial support to monarchist fighting soviet backed communist in speech on March of 1947 -
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
-At the end of WWII a four powered military commision had been set up to administer Berlin
-Soviet forces began to harass ground transport that connected west of Berlin to west Germany
-Joseph Stalin restricted access to Berlin by closung water and railway transport (they agreed to lift the blockade in 1949)
-People of Berlin were given supplies by airlifts -
Berlin Wall
-Seperated west Berlin from east Berlin and the rest of east Germany
-The wall was 13 feet high
-The wall was built because of crazy border control
-Soviet leader Nikita declared of 1944 London protocol was invalid.
-France, UK, and U.S. forfeited their rights to stay in west Berlin, Nikita said the latter should become and "independent political unit, a free city"
-1959-1960 was the Berlin crisis, tensions of military
-Cold war made the mayor want to reconciliate -
Cuban Missile Crisis
-13 day standoff in the middle of the Cold War
-The USSr planned to put nuclear missiles in Cuba, 100 miles away from Florida
-The USSr then backed down after threats from the U.S. -
Vietnam War
-In 1946, the Indioching war errupted when the French tried to reassurt their colonial rule
-In 1955, the U.S. dedicated itself to building a strong vietnamese nation
-In 1961, the U.S. began to increase its military aid to south Vietnam
-In 1964, the north Vietnamese attacked the USS Madox
-In 1965, a series of airstrikes against north Vietnam continued until 1968
-In 1973, pans peace accord was signed (war did not end until 1975) -
Soviet Afghan war
-Started December 24, 1979- February 14, 1989
-Location was Afghanistan
-Result was a failed occupation Afganistan
-It was the Soviets Vs. the Afghan Mujahideen, it was supported by U.S, United Kingdom, China, Saudia Arabia and West Germany
-The purpose was to occupy Afghanistan to make a part of Soviet Union -
Glasnot/Perestroika
-Perestroika is the reconsruction of the political and economic system established by the communist party
-Glasnost means "openness" and was the name for the social and political reforms to bestow more rights and freedoms upon the soviet people
-These are policies and were effected from 1985-1991, Boris Yeltsin became Russia's president. He formed the commonwealth of independent states
-Helped cause the fall of the soviet union and the end of the Cold War. -
Fall of Communism/Soviet Union
-2 countries in the union declared the creation of the C's (common wealth of independent states)
-Gorbatrov (soviet leader at the time)
-This tried to solve the USSr political difference by introducing reforms
-This result encouraged nationalism
