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The Chinese civil war was fought between the Kuomintang (nationalist party) and the Chinese Communist party. It was a very long war and eventually resulted in the communists winning despite the Kuomintang starting the war with more resources, people, money, and foreign support. The communists appealed to the peasants and other poor in China because they promised economic equality, this was the extreme majority in China at the time, so essentially they gained more troops than they lost from the land and population they gained when they won battles.

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Churchill Gives the "Iron Curtain" Speech 1946

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Churchill Gives the "Iron Curtain" Speech 1946

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Former prime minister of britain Winston Churchill gave a speech talking about the USSR and how it has closed off a huge piece of europe behind it's 'Iron Curtain' of communism. This speech was a call for britain and the U.S. to try and do something about the USSR's actions.

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WWII Ends and the Cold War Begins at the same time 1945

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WWII Ends and the Cold War Begins at the same time 1945

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The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Imperial Japan which ended WWII and, at the same time, began the era of international political tension of the Cold War. Essentially, the U.S., U.K. and USSR had made a flimsy wartime relationship that left them sitting there with most of the world's military might while a flimsy relationship angrily unravelled before their eyes. Also nuclear weapons were revealed to the world.

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The USSR blocked land access into Berlin because they owned the surrounding area, this made it impossible for the U.K., France, and the U.S. to get supplies into their piece of Berlin by land, this was the USSR's attempt to force them out of Berlin. The U.K., U.S., and France decided to fly supplies into Berlin by airplanes instead of giving up Berlin to the USSR. This was successful and ended the USSR's blockade.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded among many western european and north american countries. It was founded as a large international military alliance made to protect the north atlantic treaty and to shield against the USSR and the iron curtain. It was successful in that, and exists today as kind of a second UN for a smaller number of countries.

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The Chinese civil war ended with the Kuomintang's defeat and the communist takeover of China. With this China split into two countries; the People's Republic of China (we just call it China today), and the Republic of China (we call this Taiwan today). Basically, the Kuomintang lost the war and retreated to an island group off the coast of China, the largest in the group being Taiwan, and made their own country anyway.

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The Korean war starts with the north korean communist army invading non-communist south Korea. The Korean war was a very large and costly war, the north koreans were supported and helped by China and the USSR, and the south koreans were supported and helped with the U.S. and the U.K. militaries and money. This war ended with a stalemate at the 38th parallel (exactly where the border started) and the creation of the countries North Korea and South Korea.

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The USSR and China signed a treaty of friendship to show that they were allies. This mostly was because the USSR were both against the U.S. and other non-communist nations in the cold war. This meant that China and the USSR would support communist takeovers in smaller countries together and that the USSR and China would help defend each other if they were attacked.

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The USSR creates a 'treaty of friendship' that looks like it means that the USSR and it's eastern european satellite states are equals in an alliance. This really just means that the USSR had more control over it's satellite states.

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The Vietnam war was a war in which the northern vietnamese tried to invade south Vietnam and tried to force communism upon them while. The U.S. supported the southern vietnamese and the USSR supported the northern vietnamese. This war was very costly and the U.S. would eventually lose.

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The USSR's side of Berlin was emptying out because the living conditions there were really terrible compared to the living conditions in the capitalist side of Berlin. The USSR decided to build a wall to keep them in, this was viewed as a great act of anti-freedom. It was a great and joyous event when it was torn down.

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This was a failed invasion of communist Cuba by U.S. backed cuban exile forces. The U.S. bombed Cuba's main airfields and supplied the invaders, along with sending some troops of their own. The bombings failed to destroy all of Cuba's airforce and the landing boats were damaged by coral reefs, the invasion failed miserably and the U.S. was humiliated.

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The Cuban missile crisis was an event in which the soviets stationed nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba. Cuba is a communist nation that is incredibly close to the tip of Florida. It was a time of great fear in the U.S. and was ended when a U.S. naval blockade blocked supplies and more missiles from going into Cuba, forcing the soviets to leave with their missiles.

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The Vietnam war was a very long and costly war, as previously stated. The war had dragged on far too long and the U.S. simply stopped putting more resources into the effort before the USSR and China would have. Obviously, the war was quickly lost after that and Vietnam became an entire communist country.

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As the USSR begins losing the Cold War it also begins to lose it's grip on it's territories, including Germany. Everybody except for the USSR hated the Berlin Wall, so when the USSR couldn't stop them, the U.S. and Berliners took it down together in massive symbol of peace and freedom.

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Germany and it's capital had been split in occupation among the USSR and the other allies since the end of WWII. Germany was once again made whole as the soviets lost their grip of it. This was a widespread symbol of peace and unity across the world.

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The USSR shattered into a bunch of smaller countries (15) marking the end of the Cold War. The USSR collapsed due to pressure from it's regions that wanted to be independent, the U.S., the U.K., and most of europe that it didn't own.