HISTORY 2 !

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  • VIetnam War

    • The US was involved, along with France, Korea, and Japan
    • Ho's, the leader of the french, Indochinese Communist party led revolts and strikes against the French. The French responded by jailing Vietnamese protesters.
    • Vietnam was divided between two different sides, leading to many differences.

  • Soviet Union Falls Apart

    • Soviet Union, United States, and Germany
    • While Europe began rebuilding, the United States and its allies clashed with the Soviet Union over Germany. The Soviets meant to keep their former enemy weak and divided.
    • The Soviet leader lost his gamble. To break the blockade, American and British officials flew food and supplies into West Berlin.

  • Korean War

    • Sovite Union, United States, North/South Korea
    • Both groups wanted to take over the penisula and many different territories and North Koreans swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea.
    • Korea remained divided into two countries. In North Korea, the Communist dictator Kim Il Sung established collective farms

  • • Mao Zedong takes control of China

    -The communists were involved by forcing him to come to power.
    -China's major cities fell to the Red forces one by one. Mao's troops were well trained in guerrilla warfare. But they were also about his promised return of land to the peasants. -It contributed to the cold war by splited china into two nations

  • Revolution in Iran

    • Iran, Middle East, and Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
    • wealth from the oil industry fueled a growing conflict between traditional Islamic values and modern Western materialism
    • They feared that Mossaddeq might turn to the Soviets for support, the United States had him arrested. It then restored the shah to power.

  • Soviet Invasion of Hungary

    • The Soviet Union and Hungary
    • The soviet union wanted to take over their government and wanted to overpower hungary.
    • Soviet Union replaced Hungarians government with por- soviet leaders and this lead to the execution of Nagy, who was a communist leader.

  • Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

    -Cuba, the dictartors, and fidel castro were involved.
    -many people praised Castro for bringing reforms to Cuba and improving the economy, literacy, health care, and conditions for women.
    -This related to the cold war because cuba was deeply involved. Kennedy's demand for the removal of Soviet missiles put the United States and the Soviet Union on a collision course.

  • The Bay of Pigs invasion

    • United states and Cuba/ Cuban governemtn
    • The United States launched an attack on Cuba meant to overthrow Castro's government. -Two hundred invaders were killed, most of the cubans were taken as prisoners and later killed.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    • Cuba, Soviet Union, United States
    • The Soviet Union was far behind from the United States in the nuclear race. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union, so this began a crisis. -Khrushchev announced that he would tear down the installations and return the missiles to the Soviet Union, expressing his trust that the United States would not invade Cuba.

  • Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

  • Nixon Visits China

    • Robert Nixon, United States, Soviet Union, and China -Nixon and Brezhnev signed the SALT I Treaty, a five-year agreement limited to 1972 levels the number of intercontinental ballistic and submarine-launched missiles each country could have. -Under Presidents Nixon and Gerald Ford, the United States gradually improved relations with China and the Soviet Union and 33 nations joined the United States and the Soviet Union in signing a commitment to détente and cooperation, the Helsinki Accords.

  • Civil War in Nicaragua

    -The US, Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, and Daniel Ortega The Sandinistas had aided other socialist rebels in nearby El Salvador. To gain support and help the El Salvadoran government fought these rebels, the United States supported Nicaraguan anti-Communist rebel forces, which were called Contras.
    - It lasted over a decade and seriously weakened the country's economy.

  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    • Soviet Union, Afghanistan,
    • a ten-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, who supported the Marxist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan at their own request against the Islamist Mujahideen Resistance
    • The U.S. ignored the threat of Islamism and used it as a bulwark against communism and revolution

  • Iran/Iraq War

    • Iran and Iraq
    • The causes of the war between Iraq and Iran are historic and deeply rooted in concerns over internal security and territorial boundaries. -This led to the gulf war and just led to more conflict between the nations.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev takes control of USSR

    • Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Mikhail Gorbachev was leader of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, the man chiefly responsible for ending the Cold War and the key person in the reintroduction of democracy
    • his reforms spread beyond his control and the Soviet Union broke apart, ceasing in 1991.

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    • East Germany, the berlin wall, hungary, and austria
    • 1989 Hungary opened the iron curtain to Austria. Months before East German tourists used their chance to escape to Austria from Hungary
    • The end of the communist system had begun.

  • SALT Treaty Talks

    • Soviet Union, Nixon, and Brezhnev
    • This five-year agreement limited to 1972 levels the number of intercontinental ballistic and submarine-launched missiles each country could have.
    • 33 nations joined the United States and the Soviet Union in signing a commitment to détente and cooperation, the Helsinki Accords.