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NATO
The United States, Canada, and ten other countrys made a military alliance called NATO. -
Nuclear Arms Race and Detente
In 1949 The Soviet Union had developed nuclear weapons. At this time both the United States and Soviet Union had nuclear weapons. -
Korean Conflict
South Korea tried to take over north Korea. They were spilt up into two rival forces. After world war 2 Japan conqured Korea and they split it fro control. -
The Berlin Wall
The nuclear arms race was central to the Cold War. Many feared where the Cold War was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were. Both America and Russia massively built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. -
Nuclear Arms Race and Detente
In 1953 Both the United States and Soviet Union had made hydrogen bombs. Hydrogen bombs are more destructive than an atomic bomb. In 1969 U.S and S.U began to
(SALT) to limit the nimber of nuclear weapons each side had. Both sides had signed the agreement in 1972 & 1979. This agreement led to Detente during the 1970s. This ended in 1979 when the Soviet invaded Afghanistan. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact included the Soviet union & seven satilites in easter Europe. -
Cuba Gos Communist
In 1959, Castro looked for support from the Soviet Union. He nationalized business and put them under government control.Castro than restricted cubans' political freedom & critics of the new regime were put in jail or silenced. -
Chinese Civil War
Communist Peasants fought over land in china in the 1950s - 1959 because peasants had long stuffered from brutal land lords and crushing taxes. -
The missile crisis
In 1962 the Soviet Union sent nuclear missiles to cuba. JFK made a naval blockade that prevented any more shipments from the Soviet Than demanded that the soviet remove there nuclear missiles from cuba. -
Vietnam Conflict
North Vietnamese were a part of the global cold war at south east Asia in Aug/1/1964 because they were attacked near by a U.S. destroyer. -
Soviets Afghanistan
Who-Soviet Union, Afghnistan, & Muslim
What- The return from a decade of politcal of mohammed .
Where- Afghnistan.
Why- The afghan were trying to over throw bullah's communist. -
Eastern European Independence
Eurapean countries from Poland to Bulgaria broke out of the Soviet orbit in 1989. The baltic states, Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuaniahad regained full independence from which the soviet seized in 1940. -
Soviet Union falls
In1992, Gorbachev has been overthrown and the Soviet empire has fallen apart. The Russian land is ruled by an ultra-nationalist military dictatorship, the Baltic republics by Catholic radicals, and Central Asia by fundamentalist emirates.
