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rio pact
rio pact stated that us would attack if there was athreat -
soviet successful tested the nuclear bomb
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fall of china to communism
ccp won the chinese civil war -
acheson defence perimeter speech
in his speech, the us omitted south korea from its list of defence -
border clashes
border clashes took place between south and north korea and it set the foundation for the korean war -
stalin agreed to kim ll sung plan
stalin cautiously agreed to kim invasion plan -
crossing of the 38th parallel by the north korea was seen as a instance of soviet expansionism
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china join the war
china entered for its own safety -
us and un forces suffered heavy losses
un suffered 11000 casualties in 2 days, 3000 us troops died.
us forces were fighing below subzero temoerature -
general mac arthur was dimissed
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peace talks
peace talk began, but it was not succesful and dragged on for 2 years -
death of stalin
with stalin death, the korean war had an armistice in july 1953 -
land redistribution act
this set the foundation for the cmc as us saw this as a threat -
trade aggrement with the ussr
castro sold sugar to ussr -
bay of pigs invasion
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operation mongoose
us sabotaged petroleum intatllion on the island -
castro became a marxist leninist
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us u2 spy plane photograph misslie in cuba
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cuban missile crisis
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us told the public about the missiles
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khrushchev first and second letter