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Chinese Revolution
The chinese revolution involved the Soviet Union supporting the Communist ChinesesParty of China, whose leader was Mao Zedong and it involved the United States supporting the Chinese Nationalist party of China, whose leader was Chaing Kai-shek. The chinese revolution started after Peace talks and negotiations weren’t working so well and ended out into a war between the Nationalists and the Communists. The Nationalists were driven out of the country onto the island of Taiwan. -
Chinese Revolution
The communists that won the war then established a Republic of China which was under a communist government. This impacted the cold war because communism was spreading. The united states containment failed and the failure fuled the Red Scare, or the scare of communism. This made tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union rise. -
Korean War
The Korean war was between North and South Korea.North Korea was supported by communist China and South Korea was supported by democratic United States.The Korean war started after : Communist North Korea invaded South Korea which was anti- communists by crossing the 38th parallel where the two countries were divided. The result of the war was that 38th parallel stayed and there was a demilitarized zone set up between the two countries. -
Korean War
This victory for communism further fulled the cold war tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet again containment had failed and this had fuled the resentment for communism. -
Sputnik Launched
The Soviet Union launches the first artificial satellite into the sky,The satellite traveled around the earth at 18,000 mph and circled the globe every 96.2 minutes.The U.S feared that the Soviets were becoming more technologically advanced.U.S. was afraid that they could use this technology to launch any nuclear weapon in the sky and to aim it towards the country. It pressured and forced the U.S. to take a look and start advancing into space and the wonders of it. -
U2 Spy Plane Shot Down
After a United States U2 spy plane was shot down in the airspace of the Soviet Union, then current president Dwight Eisenhower becomes concerned.The pilot of the plane, Francis Gary Powers, was captured by the Soviet Union,who at this time's leader was Nikita Krushchev.This incident further deteriorated the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union couldn't trust the United States after they were caught spying on the country. -
Berlin Wall
Many of East Germans fled to West Berlin because of the prosperous economy. East Berlin’s communistic government was weak and seen as a failure compared to West Berlin. After Kennedy refuses to give West Berlin, Khrushchev and East Germans set up a concrete wall between east and West Berlin to make sure the democratic ideas weren’t flowing in the communist world and to stop people from fleeing to West Berlin. Cold War tensions aggravated between the two countries. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The totalitarian leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro, and the communist leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Krushchev, form an alliance and this concerns the leader of the United States, John F. Kennedy, Khrushchev promised to protect Cuba with soviet arms and they start to import nuclear weapons to Cuba. They also started to build missile bases on Cuba. The missiles could reach the U.S quickly which frightened the United States. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The missle base construction was caught by American U-2 planes. After negotiation and compromising soviets removed the missiles after U.S. promised not to invade Cuba. The Cuban missle crisis impacted the cold war by making the United States scared that they were going to be attacked from nearby. This also influenced the missles that United states placed in Turkey pointed at the Soviet Union incase of an attack from the Soviet Union. -
Uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
Both of the countries were against the communistic government that the Soviet Union had oppressed them into. in 1956 Hungary uprose from the poverty, russian control, and the ban of religion. Hungary believed that they could recieve more help from the West ( the United States) to replenish their country and economy.Once the uprisings in Czechoslovakia began the Soviet Union sent warsaw pact troops in to invaide czechlosovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. -
Uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
These uprisings changed the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union began to resent the United States and their western influences on these countries thath they were trying to gain control of. -
Russia Invades Afganistan
Russia invades Afganistan to support Afganistan's prime minister Hazifullah Amin. Amin tries to impose a communist government upon his muslim populated country. This imposes a problem becasue the muslims are very religious and are consistent with their traditions and by forcing a non-religious government upon them, they start to revolt back. The Soviet Union backsup Amin in hopes of establishing a communist government. -
Russia Invades Afganistan
This fuels the Cold War becasue if Russia takes over a part of the Middle East, whats to stop it from taking over the rest and imposing a communist government on the rest. By obtaining and maintaining a communist government in the Middle east, communist can spread to other countries.
