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Chinese Revoultion
It occurred in 1946-1950. This was the second part of the Chinese civil war. It was between the
Chinese Nationalist Party and the Communist Party of China. US sent supplies and weapons to the Nationalist Party and Soviet Union barely sent any to the Communist Party. Communist Party wins because of lack of morale and corruption was bad for the Nationalists. -
Korean War
Occurred in 1950-1953. There was a conflict between South Korea and North Korea. There was no peace treaty so basically the war still hasn’t ended. The Korean Peninsula it was ruled by the Empire of Japan. The failure holds free elections. All that were involve South Korea, North Korea, and Soviet Union. The Korean war brought about policies that came from the cold War -
Uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
Occurred in 1956. It was a nationwide revolt against the government of the people’s republic of Hungary and its Soviet imposed policies. The Revolt ran quickly across Hungary and the government collapsed -
Sputnik launched (and the space race)
World’s first artificial satellite that was launched by Russia October 4th 1957. Americans thought this was a way for the soviets to spy on the U.S.A. It created the space race and the U.S.A was much farther ahead in the last 1960’s -
U2 spy plane shot down (Francis Gary Powers)
Occurred in the 1960’s in the U.S.A by plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Francis Gary Powers is the pilot his plane was found intact and he alive which forced the U.S admit that they were spying -
Berlin Goes Up
Occurred on August 13 1961. The wall was put up to keep the civil war from happening in Germany because the 2 sides didn’t agree on Soviet policies and this kept them from having a war. It was a barrier constructed by German democratic republic. They completely cut of West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Cris
Occurred October in 1962 the U.S and Soviet Union brought the world to a nuclear war. It was a 13 days. It was Cold was turning into a nuclear war. It was also the first document instance of mutual assured destructed. October 14 tasked on air-force operated U-2 aircraft to scan the suspected areas of Cuba -
Russia Invades Afghanistan
Xmas 1979 already a civil war going on because the prime minister wanted to be a more western slant on Aphganastan and the people had a strong Muslim believes. Russia claims that they were invited by the Amin government to support a legitimate government and that the Mujahedeen were terrorists. America put a ban on the export of grain to Russia, ended the SALT talks taking place then and boycotted the Olympic Games due to be held in Moscow in 1980
