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Chinese Revolution
-With the breakdown of peace talks between the Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), and the Communist Party of China (CPC), an all-out war between these two forces.
-Ultimately, the People's Liberation Army was victorious. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
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Korean War
-Without Korea, U.S. policy would have been very different, and there were no events on the horizon which could have been functional substitutes for the war. The international or the American domestic system may have "needed" high defense budgets, the globalization of American commitments, and the militarization of NATO, but these patterns arose only in the wake of Korea.
-The Korean War (June 1950 –July 1953) was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations -
Uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
- a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies. It was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out the Nazis at the end of World War II and occupied Eastern Europe. Despite the failure of the uprising, it was highly influential, and came to play a role in the downfall of the Soviet Union decades later.
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Sputnik launched (and the space race)
October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.
- the Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ideological superiority -
U2 spy plane shot down (Francis Gary Powers)
-was a man who was an American pilot who was in the Central Intelligence Agency.
Gary powers was in charge of doing surveillance over soviet Russia he was later shot down and captured for interrogation.
-he was sentenced to prison close to Moscow -
Berlin Wall goes up
- In June 1961, Khrushchev renewed the crisis over Berlin during a meeting with the new American president, John Kennedy, in Vienna. Khrushchev again threatened to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany that would end existing four-power agreements guaranteeing Western access to West Berlin. Kennedy wanted to make sure that Khrushchev understood Western determination to maintain access to the city at any risk.
- The Soviet government never did sign a separate peace treaty with East Ger
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Cuban Missile Crisis
- was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side.
- After the US had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey, aimed at Moscow, and the failed US attempt to overthrow the Cuban regime, in May 1962 Nikita Khrushchev proposed the idea of placing Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt.
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Russia invades Afghanistan
- In Christmas 1979, Russian paratroopers landed in Kabal, the capital of Afghanistan. The country was already in the grip of a civil war. The Prime Minister, Hazifullah Amin, tried to sweep aside Muslim tradition within the nation and he wanted a more western slant to Afghanistan. This outraged the majority of those in Afghanistan as a strong tradition of Muslim belief was common in the country.
- Thousands of Afghanistan Muslims joined the Mujahdeen - a guerilla force on a holy mission for All
