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Led the Vietenemese nationalist movement, for more than 3 decades, fighting against Japanese, French Power, and the US-backed Vietenemse. President of North Vietnam from 1954 until death.
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Soviet statesment, communist party official, was also the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years.
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1932 Summer Olympics, held during the Great Depression which caused several of the athletes unable to pay for the trip to Los Angeles. Even President Hoover skipped the event.
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Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human rights activist.
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Symbolized the idealogical conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two seperate areas after the end of WWII in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991
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Eastern most country in East Asia. 90.3 million-population.
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International organization whose stated aim is to promote an international law to keep the countries "in order."
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An international policy set out by Truman during a speech that stated that U.S. would support Greece and Turkey
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An American program to aid Europe, gave European countries economic aid during the time of WWII.
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(OEEC), Established to create a permanet organisation to continue work on a on a joint recovery program and to supervise the distrubation of aid.
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Airlift that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.
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An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic treaty that was signed in April 4, 1949
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Most recent political entity to govern mainland China.
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War between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic Of Korea. Mainly a result from the political agreement between allies at the conclusion of the Pacific war at the end of WWII
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First Secertary of the Communist Party from 1953-1964
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The main source of security for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991.
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Mutual defense pact during the Cold War
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The Geneva Accords theoterically ended the war between French Union Forces and the Laos, Cambodia, and Vietenam.
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Military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt, Britain, France, Isreal, United States, and the Soviet Union
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FIrst artificial Earth satelite that the Soviet Union launched, provided information about the atmosphere and space,
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The Berlin wall is both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961-1989. Also was the symbolic boundary between democracy and communism during the Cold War.
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Closest event that the world has ever come to having a nuclear war
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Military Campaign during the Vietnam war, campaign of surprising attacks that were launched against South Vietnam.
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Major diplomatic agreement signed in Finland on the First Conference of Security and Coorporation in Europe
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Diplomatic crisis between Iran and the U.S. 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days after a group of Islamatic students took over the American Embassy of Tehran.
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1980 summer olympics, first one to be staged in Eastern Europe.
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To refrom the distraught Soviet Union, they estabilished the "glasnost" and the "perestokia" policies throught the Party Secertary Mihkahli Gorbechev's.
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A catasrophic nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant in Ukraine, which was under control of the central authroites of the Soviet Union
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With the building of the wall arose several problems with the people of the two countries who wanted to see people who lived on the "other side" of the wall.
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Russian president, first of the Russian federation
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The end of the Soviet Union came from the resignation of Mikhail S. Gorbachev to make way for a new "Commonwealth of Independent States."
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Russian President since May 7, 2012
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First exploded in 1952 at Enewetak by the United States.
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Large city square in the middle of Beijing, China; 3rd largest city square in the world
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War that lasted 9 years. from December 1979-February 1989.
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The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-20s until his death in 1953. Very paranoid man who built several underground bunkers throughout the country.
