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The Chinese Revolution
-Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong
-china was going against their own people trying to inforce a communist state
-U.S- Truman doctrine said they would back any country who was forcefully held into going to communism
-soviet union provided little aid
-nationolist troops proved no match to the communists army
-communists able to seize the region + capture large nationalist formations
-nationalist troops retreated to taiwan -
Korean War
First military action of the cold war
-war against north and South Korea going back and forth over the 38th parallel
-America fighting against the “forces of international communism itself”
-USA and USSR were using this war as a front to fight each other without it becoming a “hot” war
-trigger of the war was when Syngman Rhel boasted that he was going to attack North Korea, causing the north Koreans to invade South Korea
-North Korea supported by Soviet Union and china
-South Korea supported by -
Uprising in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
-Working class protested for three new reforms to their government
-free press
-hold democratic elections
-move away from Stalinist policies
-when the rebellion spread throughout the country, Hungarian leaders called in the soviet union for troops to stop the growing protests
-shot over 300people next day
-Kadar established as prime minister -
Sputnik launched (and the space race)
The US and USSR attempted to fight the cold war by demonstrating their power and technology
-They realized how important rocket research would be to the military
-each side tried to show that they had better scientists and technology by achieving certain space missions first
On October 4, 1957 the Russians placed sputnik into orbit; they were ahead in the space race
-four months later US released Explorer 1
-Soviets won the race to put the first man in space
-US put man on the moon and took a hu -
U2 spy plane shot down (Francis Gary Powers)
-captured pictures of long range missiles in Cuba
-they could reach any point of the United States
-the CIA assured the president that the Russians didn’t have the equipment to shoot down the high altitude planes
-when the U2 spy plane mysteriously disappeared over Russia the CIA once again reassured that even if the plane was shot down it would self-destruct
-the US put out a statement that a weather plane had just veered off its path
-the soviets showed the US the intact wreckage of the spy pl -
7. Berlin Wall goes up
-separated East and West Berlin
-prevented people from fleeing East Berlin
-East Germany – communist controlled by the Soviet Union
-West Germany- democratic allies with Britain, France, and the US
-they were supposed to reunite
-people living in east Germany realized they didn’t want to be controlled by the soviet union and communism, so they would move to the western part.
-they then built the wall in August 12th and 13th of 1960 to prevent this
-Ronald Regan asked the leader of Soviet Union t -
Cuban Missile Crisis
-Occurred in 1962
--soviet union started installing missiles in Cuba
-US refused to allow this
-after thirteen days soviets agreed to remove missiles
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8. Russia invades Afghanistan
-December 24, 1979 - February 15, 1989
-fought between Afghanistan rebels called the Mujahideen and the Afghanistan government supported by the soviets
-US supported Afghanistan rebels to prevent spread of communism
-soviet supported communist government took over Afghanistan
-soviet leaders thought that President Amin was talking to the US, Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
-had president amin put to death, put in their own leader
-When Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union he want
