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NATO and warsaw pact
NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - Each super-powered formed a European military alliance made up of the nations that it occupied and protected. The us lead the NATO in western europe. -
nuclear arms race and detente
The nuclear arms race was just the us and the soviet union had nuclear weapons, by 1949 they both had the nuclear bomb and by 1953 they both dicovered the hydrogen bomb which was even more powerful than the atomic bomb. -
chinese civil war
after japans defeat, communist forces fought a civil war against nationalists. the defeated nationalists fled to the island of twiwan. off the chinese coast. after decades of struggles, china was finally under communist control -
communist cuba and missile crisis
Crastro organized an armed rebellion against the crrupt dictator who then ruled cube. by 1959 castro had led his amry to victory and started to change the country. Castro sought the support of the soviet union. critics of the new regime were jailed or killed and hundreds of thousands fled to flordia -
Korean conflict
After world war II korean was split into two rival forces. and like other divided lands, they found themselfs on opposite sides of the cold war.
korea was independent until japan conquered it. After japan was defeated, they decided to split korea down the middle on the 38 degrees line. -
Berlin wall
The city was split into democratic West Berlin and communist east Berlin. In the 1950s, west Berlin became a showcase for West Germany prosperity. A massive exodus of low-paid East Germans, unhappy with communsim, fled into West Berlin. To stop them germany bulid a wall in 1961 -
vietnam
AT an international confrence that year, Western and communist powers agreed to a temporary division of vietnam. they had electons to reunite the two vietnams, but the electons were never held because the americans and ngo dinh diem (noncommunist controlled north veitnam and was supported by th us.) were afriad that the communist would win. -
soviets in afahanistan
the soviet got involved in a long war in afghanistan. A soviet-supprted afghan goverment had tried to modernize the nation.
