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Chinese Revolution
The Chinese Revolution was between 1946 – 1950. This war was between the Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), and the Communist Party of China (CPC). The Soviet Union provided little aid to the communists, and the United States assisted the Nationalists with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of military supplies and equipment. The Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which established communist rule. -
Chinese Revolution
Mao Zedong’s troops formed the basis of the Red Army that renewed the civil war against the nationalists in 1946 and emerged victorious after defeating them at Huai-Hai and Nanjing in 1949. If the Soviet Union were to pick a side and the United States were to pick another side, you could have another huge war. -
Korean War
The Korean War lasted until July 27 1953. The Korean War was between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) supported by the United States and the United Nations, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) at one time supported by the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. North Korea and South Korea were divided at the 38th Parallel. North Korea wants to expand communism into South Korea. South Korea wants to be a democracy like the United States. -
Korean War
The United States was losing soldiers’ lives who are indirectly fighting Russia, and the United States was fighting in a foreign land. If Russia got mad at us for beating up on North Korea, they could have bombed us or could have used nuclear weapons on South Korea. -
Uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
The Uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia were during 1956. Hungary was involved in this uprising alongwith the Soviet Union. it was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, which lasted from October 23, 1956 until November 10, 1956. The Soviet Union was trying to set up puppet governments around the world that would answer to Russia’s communism. -
Sputnik launched (and the space race)
Sputnik's launch involved the United States and the Soviet Union. This event was harmless, although its orbiting greatly emphasized the continual threat the United States had perceived from the Soviet Union since the Cold War began after World War II. The same rocket that launched Sputnik could send a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world in a matter of minutes, breaking the oceanic moat that had successfully protected the continental United States from attacks during both of the World Wars. -
Sputnik luanched (and the space race)
People were perceiving that Russia had more technology than the United States. To prove that Russia wasn’t the most advanced country, the United States wanted to put the first man on the moon. The connection with the Cold War is the technology. If you can launch a rocket in space, you can launch a rocket from Russia to the United States. -
U2 spy plane shot down (Francis Gary Powers)
This had onvolved involved the United States under Dwight Eisenhower and the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. A United States U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union by Soviet Air Defense Forces. This proved to the Russians that the United States was spying on them and it rallied them against the United States. -
Berlin Wall goes up
The incident when the Berlin Wall was completed had involved East Germany and West Germany. The Berlin Wall divided Germany into two separate countries. This became the symbol of the Cold War. East – Communist. West – democracy. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation until October 28, 1962. The confrontation was between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other side. The Soviet Union backed Cuba with missiles aimed at the United States. People were concerned that Fidel Castro was going to launch the rockets with or without the Russians permission. This crisis is usually considered as the moment in which the Cold War came the closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
Russia invades Afghanistan
Russia invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 and lasted until February 15, 1989. This incident involved Russia and the Afghanistan Muslims. During Christmas in 1979, Russian paratroopers landed in Kabal, Afghanistan. The country was already in the grip of a civil war. The prime minister, Hazifullah Amin, had tried to sweep aside Muslim tradition within the nation and he wanted a more western slant to Afghanistan. -
Russia invades Afghanistan
This outraged the majority of those in Afghanistan as a strong tradition of Muslim belief was common in the country. Thousands of Muslim leaders had been arrested and many more had fled the capital and gone to the mountains to escape Amin's police. Also, thousands of Afghanistan Muslims joined the Mujahedeen - a guerilla force on a holy mission for Allah. They wanted the overthrow of the Amin government. People were afraid that invasion was going to turn into another Korean War or Vietnam War.
