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This was an empire led by a king and attempted to take over as much land as possible. this king was a tyrant, and starved his people.
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Russian citizens rose up against the leader of the Russian leader. the citizens of Russia won the revolution. as a new form of government. -
two groups, the reds (communists) and the whites (capitalists) started a civil war in Russia. Vladimir Lenin and the reds won the civil war, after the war, Lenin gave a speech outlining the people cannot disagree with the leader and dictator has complete control. Lenin was assassinated by a white group member after the speech. -
Hitlers invasion of Poland started World War II. They broke a treaty with the Soviet Union and caused a war. they used huge bombs and artillery along with bigger countries coming in and fighting also. Many people were killed and wounded. -
tension between The United States and The Soviet Union which started a verbal war and disagreement. they often competed about communism and capitalism. they also had the Space race which The United States won. -
The Iron Curtain was a technique or strategy used to protect what was inside and the Iron Curtain was just a huge wall of things around it and it was used to keep things out. The Soviet Union used this when closer countries in Europe would try to get messages into Moscow but people were hired to intentionally break up the messages. -
a time when american citizens were paranoid of everyone and thought they were communist because of tiny different actions that were completely normal. it caused divorces, broken friendships, and much more. with people being scared it was slowly turning the country into a communists country. -
A war between North and South Vietenam that The United States got involved with to keep capitalism in and communism out. Vietnam proved the cold war wasn't really a cold war. -
A race between the United States and the Soviet Union, won by the united states when they launched men into space and they walked on the moon. -
The Soviet Union put nuclear missiles into Cuba (very close to The United States) to scare and worry the U.S. citizens and leaders. The U.S. responded with a blockade Around Cuba and then had an agreement to take missiles out of both Turkey and Cuba. -
The Soviet Union was spending too much on things like their military and space craft technology that they didn't have enough for their needs and enough for food and goods. They tried to form a new structure of their government but before it was done the old one collapsed.