the korean war

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  • rio pact

    rio pact stated that us would attack if there was athreat

  • soviet successful tested the nuclear bomb

  • fall of china to communism

    ccp won the chinese civil war

  • acheson defence perimeter speech

    in his speech, the us omitted south korea from its list of defence

  • border clashes

    border clashes took place between south and north korea and it set the foundation for the korean war

  • stalin agreed to kim ll sung plan

    stalin cautiously agreed to kim invasion plan

  • crossing of the 38th parallel by the north korea was seen as a instance of soviet expansionism

  • china join the war

    china entered for its own safety

  • us and un forces suffered heavy losses

    un suffered 11000 casualties in 2 days, 3000 us troops died.
    us forces were fighing below subzero temoerature

  • general mac arthur was dimissed

  • peace talks

    peace talk began, but it was not succesful and dragged on for 2 years

  • death of stalin

    with stalin death, the korean war had an armistice in july 1953

  • land redistribution act

    this set the foundation for the cmc as us saw this as a threat

  • trade aggrement with the ussr

    castro sold sugar to ussr

  • bay of pigs invasion

  • operation mongoose

    us sabotaged petroleum intatllion on the island

  • castro became a marxist leninist

  • us u2 spy plane photograph misslie in cuba

  • Period: to

    cuban missile crisis

  • us told the public about the missiles

  • khrushchev first and second letter