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Korean Conflict
After WWII Korea was seperated into Northern and Southern. In 1950 the communist North Korea invaded the South, soon the UN aided the south and forced North Korea back up to the Yalu River. In 1951 China entered the war to help the north and force the south down to thew 47th parallel. the UN advances again and a ceasefire in 1953 left both Koreas bassicly unchanged in land. -
NATO
The United States and 11 other countries formed the National Atalantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in case one was attacked by the Soviets, the others would step in. -
Atomic bomb
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Commies in China
Mao Zedong fought a civil war and won over the Nationalists. China had a huge peasant population and Mao redistributed land to them which won over the people. This eventually turned into collectivization -
Hydrogen bomb
By this time, the United States and Soviet Union had both developed the hydrogen bomb which was far more distructive than the atomic bomb. -
Warsaw Pact
As a response to the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union and seven other countries formed the Warsaw Pact. It was less of an organization and more of the Soviets controlling other communist supporting countries. -
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Great Leap Forward
Mao led a program by this name where he urged people to make unforseen effort to increase farming and industrial output. Making communes and small backyard steel foundries. This failed miserably because of lack of individual motivation for farming and crappy steel products of untrained workers -
Cuba
In the 50s Fidel Castro created an armed rebellion against the corupt Cuban dictator. In 1959 he led his guerilla army to victory and began the Cuban Revolution into a communist nation. -
China and Soviets break up
Distrust between the 2 countries caused tensions. Border clashes and ideology differences led Soviets to withdraw aid and advisors from China -
Chinese Civil War(pic)
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Berlin Wall
East Germany sucked so It's citizens were fleeing to the West. To stop this, The East built a Wall in Berlin that divided the two sides. The completed wall was a massive concrete block topped with barbed wire and potrolled by guards. -
Bay of Pigs
John F. Kennedy attempted to defeat the Cuban communists by launching an attack using trained Cuban exiles. It was a failure and led the U.S to put a trade embargo on them which is still in effect. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The U.S learned Soviets were shipping nuclear weapons to Cuba. JFK put a naval blockade on them to stop shipments and damanded the Soviets remove the missles. A week long standstill brought the world on the edge of nuclear war, but eventually Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove missles -
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Treaties
Between this time the US and Soviets passed treaties limiting the amounts of weapons each side coulkd have, yet somehow the numbers continued to rise dramatically. -
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Back in Nam
Because of misinformation and lack of detail when reporting to congress, the U.S. found them selves in the swampy jungles of Vietnam. Northern Viatnamese and Southern rebels fought guerilla warfare which made them hard to locate. After years of struggle and no progress, it became the least popular war in American history. Finally in 1973 America withdrew -
Prague Spring
Alexander Dubcek the Czechoslovak leader introduced greater freedom of expression and limited democracy. The Warsaw Pact launched a massive invasion of Czech. to end these freedoms -
Vietnam (pic)
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Afghan n Soviets
in 1979 the Soviets got involved in a war with Afghanistan over reform policies its gov passed. The Soviets were dragged into a long and expensive was just like the U.S's Vietnam. The U.S encouraged this raping of Soviet Morale by supplying the mujahedin with weapons. -
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East Europe Independence
as Gorbachev continued to fail at reforming the Soviet Union, other countries began damanding freedom. Hungary slowly but surely expanded its market economy, freed the press, and opened borders. Poland became fed up with crappy times and organized a labor union with millions of members that damanded change. East Germany got tired of their communist utopia, in1989 when their border was opened thousands left immedietly to see the free world. Czechoslovakia was unified under communist control. -
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Soviets Fall
after WWII the Soviets emerged as a superpower, but their prosperless people eventually grew tired of their lifestyle. The Sovs tried to make a few reforms but found it easier to just repress the backlash. Their economy provided little to know chance for personal gain and this caused citizens to lose morale and slip in productivity. The Afghanistan war in the 1980s lost them money, men, supplies, and time that would never be regained. at the end of 1991 the Soviet republics split into 12 indepen -
East Europe Independence (pic)
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Korea (pic)
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Soviet Union Falls (pic)
