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Espionage
- The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments. The espionage act was passed by the Congress in 1917 after the united states entered in the first world war
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International Politics
The Hungarian Revolution was of the European revolutions and is closely related to the revolution in the Habsburg area. -
The Berlin Aitlift
The western powers (great Britain, France and US) plans to rebuild Germany was different from the plans that the soviet union had. No compramise came between both sides and tension rose between the one allied sides. -
The Continental difference
NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO is a military alliance system that was started by the Belgiums. (The ultimate goal was to 'keep the russians out, the americans in, and the germans down' in 1949) -
Korean War
The Korean war started on June 25th 1950, lasted 3 years and 32 days ending on July 27th 1953. There was atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Role in CommonWealth
The Colombo Plan- was the iner-government effort to have a stronger economy and social development for members in the asia-pacific regions. There are 26 membering countries that take part in the colombo plan. -
Suez Canal Crisis
The Suez Canal crisis was between Britian, France and Isrial who were on one side, along with the Soviet union and the United States who were on the other side. The United Nations stoped Britian, France and Isrial from starting an atomic/nuclear war. -
Peacekeeping Mission
started in 1960 and went until 1966. Was involved with the first republic of the Congo. This once began with the national idependance of Belgium and ended from the power of Joseph Mobutu. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin wall was put up 1961 and then fell on november 9, 1989. This wall was put up in the middle of the night to keep east Germans from fleeing to the west. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
started on October 14th and ended October 28th, the blockade of Cuba ended November 20th 1962. The Soviet Union withdrawaled the nuclear missles from Cuba. -
Nuclear weapons
SALT- Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
The United States chose not to meadle with the treaty of the soviet union invasion of Afganistan. -
Canada USSR Summit Series
The Summit Series were a group of exhibition games that were played by the soviets hockey teams and the NHL. Canada won the series 4 games to 3, with one tie. -
Afghanistan and Soviet Union 1980
the Soviet war in Afghanistan during the cold war. This invasion lasted 9 years and 53 days. Canada suppored the Soviet Union. -
Olympic Politics
The opening ceremony was on July 19th 1980 in Moscow Russia (Soviet Union). There were 4064 male athletes and 1115 female athletes competing. Due to the recent invasion of Afghanistan, there was constant boycoting of the games -
US Star Wars
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) bynamed the star wars. Was proposed by the U.S. defense system to help protect agains potential nuclear attacks, which originally the idea came from the soviet union. -
Gorbachev Revolution
He was a former soviet statesman, and served from October 1st 1988 until December 25th 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the soviet union to be born during the communist rule
