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The Red Scare was the excessive fear of the spread of communism following the Cold War.
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Communism in China starts approximently in 1921. Mao Zedong leads a revolution and the communist party takes over in 1927. -
Adopt Hitler was a dictator in Germany from 1933-1945. He gained his power as a Nazi leader. -
The arms race was a competition of military equipment and nuclear warfare bewteen the United States and the Soviet Union. The arms race started when the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed in August of 1945. The Arms Race ended during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, following the end of the cold war.
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NATO, most commonly known as "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization" was an alliance created in 1949 by the United States and many other Western European countries in order to be protected by the Soviet Union. -
Fallout Shelters were used during the Cold War period in order to prevent United State inhabitants from a nuclear explosion during the arms race. -
The Korean War starts in 1950 when the Soviet Union enforced communism on Northern Korea while the United States enforced democracy on South Korea. Tensions arose as America did their best to contain communism. The war ended in 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed causing North and South Korea to split.
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I'm No Communist (Lulu Belle and Scotty, 1952) was a song describing the attitudes of people during the Red Scare -
Joseph Stalin controlled the Soviet Union until his death on March 5th 1953. He was was known for being a dictator and punishing those who had any sort of opposing views from him. -
The image portrays the hesitancy that the United Stated faced when the Soviet Union took Eastern Europe after World War II. -
The Warsaw pact was created in 1955 and aimed to increase military defense and security of the member's states. -
The Space Race lasted from 1955-1975. This occured after World War 2. The United States and the Soviet Union were competing for a superiority in space technology. The Soviet Union starts this by announcing that they will be launching the Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting satellite in history. The United States responds with the Explorer 1, the first US satellite to orbit earth.
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The Vietnam war begins in 1955. There are several reasons as to why the Vietnam War happened, including communism, imperialism, and containment. The United States believed in a term called the "Domino Effect" which was the notion that if one country fell to communism, that the rest would also as well. The Vietnam war ended in 1975 when the Soviets took control over South Vietnam. However, the country was reunited again.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite to be released into space -
The Berlin wall is created in 1961 and was taken down in 1989. The purpose of the wall was to seperate East and West Berlin due to tensions after World War 2. West Germany was prohibited from entering Germany's Eastern Socialist State.
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The Cuban Missile starts to arise in 1962. The United States photographed the Cuban nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union or Cuba to know that he had found the missiles. This lead to the invasion of Cuba and an airstrike of missles. The Cuban Missle Crisis ended on October 28th when the Soviets removed their missles from Cuba.
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He was a Prime Minister in North Vietnam from 1945 to 1955. He became President from 1945 until his death in 1969. -
Mao Zedong was a former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. He was in power from 1946 until his death in 1976. -
The dissolution of the Soviet Union begins in 1988 and ends in 1991 in order to prevent it from economically failing.
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He was a former Chairman in China and served from 1978 to 1992