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The casues for the cold war
The americans and russians become the two big powers after world war 2 and look at eachother as enemies. So after WWII, tension started between the two nations -
U.S. Containment, Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
containment. It was a policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism. Containment policies included forming alliances and helping weak countries resist Soviet advances. -
Difference of Soviet union and United states
United States: Encouraged democracy and beleived communism was bad, Gain access to raw materials and markets to fuel booming industries, Rebuild European governments to promote stability and create new markets for goods,
Sviet Union: Encourage communism in other countries as part of a worldwide workers’ revolution, Control Eastern Europe to protect Soviet borders and balance the U.S. influence in Western Europe, Keep Germany divided to prevent its waging war again. -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet union wanted to keep berlin divided and weak, so they held West Berlin hostage and cut off transportation, while the allies wanted to help them, so from june to may, 1948, the allies landed about every 3 minutes in Berlin to give food, fuel, medicine and even chirtmas gifts. -
The Iron Curtain
Western europe divided and berlin (capital of germany). Eastern Germany was declared the German democratic republic and western germany was called the Federal republic of germany -
Nato and the warsaw pact
Nato was a organization of many countires that protected eachother by threating any country who harms nato with war of all nato members, soviet union saw that as a threat and created a warsaw pact made up of Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. -
Mao Zedong and Communist control of china
The northen communist led by Mao zedong that were funded and trained by soviet union fought the nationalist who were funded by The united states, Ao won and took over china and made it a communist country and signed a friendship with the Soviet Union. -
The Arms Race
The united states set out to build a even more powerful nuclear bomb so Harry Truman Authorized The start of thermonuclear bombs, what was created was a Hydrogen Bomb, Thousands of times more powerful than the atom bomb, They tested it in 1952, while the soviets Made a H bomb and tested it in 1953 -
Korean war
Yet another asian country was thereatned by communism, very much like china, the counrty of korea was divided north and south, nationals down south and the communist up north. Again, the United States funded the nationalist but the north was funded and helped by china, the new communist power. The anericans actally sent troops and were beatibg back the koreans until china sent troops to help the north and the americans were pushed back. in 1953, there was a peace treaty to end the war. -
Cuban missle crisis
in July 1962, Khrushchev secretly began to build 42 missile sites in Cuba. In October, an American spy plane discovered the sites. President John F. Kennedy declared that missiles so close to But Castro and Cuba were deeply involved. Kennedy’s demand for the removal of Soviet missiles put the United States and the Soviet Union on a collision course. People around the world feared nuclear war. Fortunately, Khru- shchev agreed to remove the missiles in return for a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The USSR collapsed in 1991 and so did the commuinsm, gorbachev, the president at the time moved toward emocracy. The soviets communism rain ended finally. In June 1987, President Reagan had stood before the Berlin Wall and demanded: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Two years later, . The new East German leader, Egon Krenz, boldly gambled that he could restore stability by allowing people to leave East Germany. On November 9,1989, he opened the Berlin Wall
