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Cold War
Causes:
-America was a Democracy and Russia was a Dictatorship
- America was Capitalism and Russia was Communism
- America was the richest but Russia was the biggest -
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U.S. Containment
United States tried to offset the growing Soviet threat to Eastern Europe. President Truman adopted a foreign policy, directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ten western European nations formed a military alliance with the US and Canada (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Warsaw Pact, and included the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. -
Mao gained control of the whole country
1949 - China’s major cities fell to Red Force
1959 - Mao headed the government and Communist party till this year -
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Korean War
North Korea and South Korea fought for three years of fighting
Chinese help North Korea
North Korea attacked South Korea -
United States exploded H-Bomb
1950 - Truman authorized a thermonuclear weapon -
Soviet Union exploded H-Bomb
1949 - Soviet Union exploded their own atomic weapon -
The Berlin Wall was opened
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Gorbachev announced his resignation as president of the S.U
