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NATO and Warsaw Pact
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President Truman finally took a stand or NATO, which stated that they would help each other if one place was attacked. In result, the Soviet Union formed a military alliance as well called the Warsaw Pact, which including the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe. Soon, both sides began participating in a propaganda war, defending their governments and fighting -
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for world power. Communism was growing quickly and unwillingly, so to strengthen the democratic governments the United states came up with an aid called the Marshall Pact, which gave food and money to Europe to help rebuild countries. -
Soviet Unions New Weapons
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Chinese Civil War
From 1958 to 1960, Mao led a program know The great leap forward.Between 1959 and 1961, as many as 55 million Chinese are thought to have starved to death. In 1966, Mao launched the great proletarian Cultural Revolution ( the goal was to purge china of bourgeois tendencies) -
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Communists and Missile Crisis
In the 1950s, Fidel Castro started an armed rebellion against the dictator of Cuba. In 1959, Castro had led his guerrilla army to victory and had started to reform the country. The transformation of the country is known as the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro wanted support from the Soviet Union. During the Cuban Revolution, he nationalized businesses, put a lot of land under control of the government,and he severely restricted Cuba’s citizens’ political freedom. People who didn’t agree with this -
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Communists and Missile Crisis PART TWO
new restriction were either thrown into prison or silenced, causing hundreds of thousands to leave for Florida. As the transformation continued, the United States tried to stop this communist regime. in 1961, the former president, John F. Kennedy agreed with an attack attempt by Cuban exiles trained by the United States. The Bay of Pigs invasion ended soon when Castro’s forces captured the invaders. Cuba and United States made a trade embargo with is still being used today. -
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Korean Conflicts
korean guysIn 1950, Kim Sung wanted to reunite Korea. In June, United Nations Security Council condemned when North Korean troops overran most of the south. The United Nations were made up of mostly Americans and South Koreans. In September of 1950, Untied Nations troops landed on the beaches around the port of Inch’on, behind enemy lines. They quickly cut off North Korean troops from their food and ammunition forcing them to surrender. This Korean war eventually turned into a stalemate. -
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Eastern European Independence
Eastern EuropeIn the 1950’s and 1960’s, revolts began to erupt in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. In 1980’s, strong demands for change arose once again. In 1968, Hungary introduced modest economic reforms. Because Hungary was loyal to the Warsaw Pact, it was allowed to go ahead with the reforms. In the 1970’s, Hungary expanded its economic economy. In the late 1980’s they began to criticize communist government openly. In 1988 & 1989 the communist government allowed greater freedoms under public pressure -
End of Korean Conflict
Now finally in 1953, both side signed an armistice. -
Soviet Union falls
Stalin’s soviet union emerged from world war II as a super power with an eastern European sphere of influence. That stretched from the Baltic to the Balkans. Victory brought few rewards to the soviet people. Stalin kept filling forced labor camps with “enemies of the state”. Soviets enjoyed greater freedom of speech. Some of the government cities were freed from prisons and labor camps. The thaw in Moscow inspired some of the east Europeans to move toward greater independence. -
NPT
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SALT
In 1972 and 1979 the United States and the Soviet Union both singed the strategic arm limitation talks (salt). -to limit the number of nuclear weapons help by each side. -
Soviets in Afghanistan
In 1979 the soviet union became involved in a long war in Afghanistan. The soviet supported afghan government tried to modernize the nation. Afghan landlords commanded armed men as war lords. Muslim conservatives charged that both policies threatened Islamic traditions. When the war lords took up arms against the government then the soviet troops moved in. The soviets had years of heavy casualties, high cost, and few successes. -
Star Wars
United States president Ponald Regan launched a program to bulid a "star wars" missle defence against nuclear attack.
