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Mao Zedong and Communist Control of China
Mao Zedong was the leader of Northern China
With China’s economy collapsing, many nationalist soldiers deserted to the Communists
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The causes of the Cold War
America
- richest country
- A democratic country
- Had freedom of speech can speak your mind
- Have their own capitalism
- Had the atomic bomb but was scared of Russia’s conventional army
Russia
- Biggest country in the world
- One party state lead by a dictator
- Had a good state control and very serious state control
- Communism
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The arms race (threat of Nuclear War)
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.
•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.
•The world greatly changed when USA exploded the H-bomb in 1952. Th -
U.S. Containment, Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Caused great controversy
1947 US to give aid to needy european countries
marshall plan would help provide food, machinery and other materials
This plan was very successful -
The Iron Curtain
- communist take over china
- idea of europe being divided up into two parts
- germany into 2 parts east and west
- the soviets controlled the east and the western zone was federal republic
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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
United States and its allies clashed with the Soviet Union over Germany.
-Berlin divided into 4 zones.
-In May 1949, the Soviet Union admitted defeat and lifted the blockade. -
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union saw NATO as a threat and formed it’s own alliance in 1955 which was the Warsaw Pact.
-A result, in 1949, ten western European nations joined with the United States and Canada to form a defensive military alliance. It was called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Korean War
June 25, 1950- North Koreans swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea.
-October 1950- the Chinese felt threatened by the American fleet off their coast. They sent 300,000 troops to aid North Korea. Fight between North and South Korea had grown into a war between Chinese and Americans.
-1952- UN troops had recaptured Seoul and regained control of South Korea.
-July 1953-the UN forces and North Korea signed a ceasefire agreement. Border of North and South Korea was set ne -
Cuban Missile Crisis
July 1962- Khrushchev secretly began to build 42 cuban missile sites in Cuba.
-October- an American spy plane discovered them. President John F. Kennedy, declared that missiles so close to the U.S mainland were a threat. He demanded Soviets remove the missiles. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
October 1989-huge demonstrations had broken out into cities across East Germany. The protesters demanded the right to travel freely-and later added the demand for free elections.
October 18-Honecker lost his authority with the party and resigned.
End of 1989- the Eastern German Communist Party had ceased to exist.
