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Two Major Powers - US and USSR
Superpowers -
Germany
Democratic and West Berlin -
International Cooperative Organizations
United Nations, NATO, and Warsaw Pact -
Beginning of Cold War Part 1
Yalta Conference -
Beginning of Cold War Part 2
Democracy and the free enterprise system vs dictatorship and communism -
Division of Europe - Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill -
Japan
US Occupation, Democracy, and Dominant Economy -
Beginning of Cold War Part 3
President Truman and the Policy of Containment(preventing the expanding of communism) -
Marshall Plan
Europe Rebuild -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
It provided a code of conduct for the treatment of people under the protection of their government. -
Chinese Civil War
China was divided into 2 nations -
Chiang Kai-shek(or Jiang Jieshi)
Became the leader of Nationalist China(island of Taiwan) -
Mao Tse-tung (or Mao Zedong-and sometimes called Chairman Mao)
Became the leader of Communist China (mainland China) -
Korean Conflict
38th Parallel, North Korea troops invaded South Korea, Policy of Containment, War Ended with an armistice -
Deerrence
Deterrence is the belief that having large amounts of nuclear weapons by both superpowers would prevent nuclear attack because both sides could strike back with devastating power. -
Battle at Dien Bien Phu
The Vietnamese defeated the French and pushed them out of Vietnam -
Ho Chi Minh
Became the leader of Communist North Vietnam -
Vietnam War
Domino Theory -
The US
Applied the containment theory to ending communism in Vietnam by sending troops to Fight -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact
Military Alliance -
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall became a powerful symbol of the division between east and west during the cold war -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Brink of Nuclear War, John F. Kennedy imposed a naval blockade of Cuba -
Indira Gandhi (Indian President)
Developed a closer relationship with the Soviet Union and developed a nuclear program -
The Paris Peace Accords
Ended the fighting in Vietnam by the US -
North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam
Vietnam was reunited as a communist country -
Deng Xiaoping (Chinese Leader)
Reformed Communist China's economy to a market economy leading to rapid economic growth, but kept communist control of the government -
Margaret Thatcher (British Prime Minister)
Close relationship with the US -
Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Leader)
Instituted policies of glasnost and perestroika which led to the fall of the Soviet Union -
Berlin Wall came down
East and West Germany re-unified -
Soviet Union
Economic Collapse and Break Up
