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Chinese Revolution
Chinese Nationalist Party vs. Chinese Communist Party. US helped Nationalists and Soviet Union slightly helped communists. Communists won and took over. Impacted cold war by increasing tension between nations. -
Korean War
1950-1953 South Korea vs. North Korea. US supported South Korea, while China and Soviet union supported north. Demilitarized Zone Created. Increased tension between US and communist nations. -
Uprisings In Hungary and and Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union invaded with tanks and troops. Hungarians fled the country. They decided it had to stop and lashed out against the soviets. Started as a student demonstration when the police fired them upon. They were able to collapse the government.Czechoslovakia Soviet Communists took over August 1968- April 1969 People took them out of power by revolting against the government -
Sputnik Launched
Soviet Union beat America to space by making the first artificial earth satellite. This started the space race and made the US thinked that the USSR was using it to spy on the US -
U2 spy plane shot down
Soviets shot down an American plane that was taking surveillance photos. America denied and then admitted that it was a spy plane. This just greater strained the relationship between the US and the USSR -
Berlin Wall goes up
German Democratic Republic construed a wall separating East Berlin and east Germany completely from West Berlin. It was done to prevent mass immigration from the communist controlled territory. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Soviet union gave nuclear missiles to Cuba, which is 90 miles off of the coast of Florida. They had the missiles pointed at the US. This is the closest we have ever been to all out nuclear war. The Soviet Union leader, Khrushchev, backed down and said lets get the missiles out of Cuba before we have an all out nuclear war. -
Russia Invades Afghanistan
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan because by treaty USSR was required to provide aid to Afghanistan and they tried to give them id but it failed so they invaded.
