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Stalin becomes dictator of Soviet Russia
After Lenin died Stalin had became leader of Russia and in the late 1920's Stalin became dictator of Russia -
Gorbachev early life
Gorbachev was born in 1931 to a poor farm family in south east russia. But later on in his life he went to college and got a law degree and in 1952 Gorbachev graduated and in 1953 stalin died so he ran for the First Secretary of the Kosomol Territorial Committee the Kosomol committee was a communistic youth organization and became leader of it. and he was appointed as the top regional official of Stavropol’s Kosomol. In 1961. Gorbachev was appointed as the delegate of Stavropol. -
Joseph Stalin
After the war Stalin wanted more land and took over Poland,Hungry,Romania,Czechoslovakia,Bulgaria,Easter Germany.After communism took over America and England got angry and started NATO where they gave money to Democratic countries. -
Harry Truman starts the cold war
The Cold War was started when Truman was president so Truman started the cold war -
Harry Truman and Korean War
After North Korea started the Korean war with Russia giving North Korea tanks and weapons. After that America gave South Korea tanks and weapons -
Stalins Death
After Stalin died Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria became in power but was shot for treason and he didn't do anything to help the cold war. Nikita Khrushchev became power in in 1956 and cooled down the cold war and got rid of a lot of tension by withdrawing one million four hundred thousand troops to six hundred thousand. Got rid of a lot of there nuclear weapons. -
Castro overthrows the Cuban Government
Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista and became a communistic dictator -
Castro becomes a communistic leader in Cuba
Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba and creates a communistic government in Cuba -
Castro gains power
Castro when he academically rose through his classes and athletically and went to college and became a lawyer and after school he started 2 uprisings against the cuban government and had a small army and had gorilla warfare and beat the cuban government and became leader of Cuba -
The Bay of pigs invasion
The Bay of pigs invasion was a fail invasion undertaken by the CIA and the Brigade 2506. What the US government was trying to do was start a revolution against Castro so there would be anarchy and then Russia could go bananas. -
U-2 Spy plane incident
What had happened was the plane was shot down while in Russian airspace. But most of the plane had survived the crash such as the technology for the soviets to start making spy planes and the photos that the americans had taken,The pilot Francis Gary Powers was taken by the Soviets and held for ransom until the americans told them what they were doing,but it was obvious they just wanted the press to know and make america look bad. -
JKF
the cold war heats up the cuban missile crisis and in response Kennedy put a barricade around Cuba but later the Russians became more careful and did very little to ease the tension. -
John F Kennedy
John F Kennedy cooled down the Cold War by going to Berlin and try and talk the Russians out Germany and end communism in a polite way. -
JFK Vietnam
JKF wanted to help out but he didn't want to go into a full on war and sent about 500 soldiers to help out. JKF realized that we helped out the allies in WW2 and a lot of it was in the Pacific and we have a duty to help them so he sent more and more soldiers -
Richard Nixon and Detente
Richard Nixon first healed relations with China and started to trade with China after ww2.After that China got better and what Nixon did he put 2 communistic superpowers together to help one another and that created a cool down and less tension. -
Salt I
Salt I stood for Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty which means to stop making ballistic missiles and nuclear missiles. But I didn't work that well but it did make the first step in ending the cold war -
Richard Nixon heating up the cold war
Richard Nixon heated the cold war by prolonging the Vietnam war and angering the Soviet Union -
Vietnam War Ends
After the Vietnam War North Vietnam won the war and south Vietnam falls to communism.America pulls its troops from Vietnam. -
Reagan disagrees on Detente
Reagan didn't like the idea of detente because he thought it was going no where. So what Reagan did was he prolonged the cold war and he thought that the Soviet Union would collapse in a few years. -
Mikhail Gorbachev cools down the cold war
Gorbachev gave the countries that are communistic in Europe more rights for freedom. And met with Ronald Reagan to look good for the public.