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A state of political tension and military rivalry b/w nations that stops short of full-scale ware, that existed between the US and Soviet Union and their allies following WWII. It was marked with a great deal of mistrust, spying, threats, and manipulation b/w the 2 super power.

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The decisions that were made was a plan for a post-war to divide Germany & Berlin (capital) into zones of occupation to be controlled by each of their military forces. The ones who attended the meeting were the leaders from U.S. (FDR), Britain (Churchill) and Soviet Union (Stalin) in 1945 before end of WWII.

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed in response to the Berlin Blockade NATO was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. Truman purpose was to aid countries that were in need of help and Main goal to stop the spread of communism by supporting countries that reject it. U.S proposed aid to help all European countries in need. Opposed by the Soviet Union which blocked Eastern European countries from participating. Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. The Cuban Missile Crisis Fearing that the U.S. would attempt another invasion, Castro quickly complied with a Soviet request to be allowed to construct nuclear missile sites in Cuba. The resulting crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in 1962. The bay of pigs invasion is a CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro by landing 1200 disgruntled Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs. Fails miserably and is a huge embarrassment for Kennedy, who then vows to bring down Castro. Forces Cuba ever further into the arms of the USSR.

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3. The Soviet Involvement in the Cold War 

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3. The Soviet Involvement in the Cold War 

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Iron Curtain, the countries that were involved were, first it began in Poland, and continued in Hungary, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. Romania became the only communist state in Europe to overthrow its totalitarian government with violence. Alliance formed by Soviet Union in response to NATO. Included Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. Also resulted in the building of the Berlin Wall which separated East and West Germany and symbolized the division between democratic and communist nations.

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In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite, into space. Both countries had been working on developing a satellite. Both countries spent a lot of money on the research and development of the first satellite. the Soviet Union and the United States spent a lot of time, effort, and resources developing the ability to launch an astronaut that would orbit the Earth.Both countries spent a great deal of time and money trying to achieve this goal. The United States was the first to accomplish this feat when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. The Space Race was considered important because it showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system. After World War II both the United States and the Soviet Union realized how important rocket research would be to the military.

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Vietnam - Colony of France, war started as independence movement turned to communists for help in fight against French.Similar to Korean war, U.S. wanted to stop the spread of communism. US believed domino theory that if one nation in Asia became communists other nations would too and officially entered in 1964. Country divided between communist north (Ho Chi Minh & Vietcong & supported by China & Soviet Union) and south (Ngo Dinh Diem -dictator & U.S.). Another example of a proxy war U.S. withdrew forces 1973 and country became all communist.1.5 million Vietnamese died in war and 58,000 Americans.

Korea - After WWII, became a divided nation, north of the 38th parallel was communists and south democratic. U.S. involvement based Truman's policy of containment or desire to stop the spread of communism. (Example of a Proxy war between US and Soviet Union)War ended with the country remaining divided between communist north and democratic south. Political differences remain today and continues to be a source of conflict.

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6. President Nixon’s Contribution to the Cold War

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6. President Nixon’s Contribution to the Cold War

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President Nixon was under fire at home from those demanding social change, racial equality, and an end to the Vietnam War. Détente is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972. Victimization  a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to

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On December 19, the Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. When Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1931-) became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he launched his nation on a dramatic new course, perestroika and glastmost, introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations.

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The Communist Party of China is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China. The September 1949 conference in Peking was both a celebration of the communist victory in the long civil war against Nationalist Chinese forces and the unveiling of the communist regime that would henceforth rule over China. The Cultural Revolution was a Revolution led by the Red Guards under Mao. The goal was to establish a society of peasants and workers that are all equal. Persecuted intellectuals and artists and claimed they were dangerous.Thousands were forced to do hard labor and were executed. Eventually Mao stopped the revolution because he feared another civil war.The Great Leap Forward was was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1962. Mao's plan to modernize China with a focus on agriculture and industry.
Created communes or large collective farms inspired by Stalin's Five-Year Plans. Strictly controlled life of the Chinese people.
Program was a failure and resulted in inefficiency, crop failure and a famine that killed about 20 million people. Also resulted in break with relations with the Soviet Union.

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7. What Did East and West Germany Finally Reunify? 

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7. What Did East and West Germany Finally Reunify? 

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With the gradual waning of Soviet power in the late 1980's, the Communist Party in East Germany began to lose its grip on power. Tens of thousands of East Germans began to flee the nation, and by late 1989 the Berlin Wall started to come down. German's reunification took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic were incorporated into Federal Republic Germany.

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Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, on May 14, 1948, the British assumed control of Palestine. In November 1917, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, announcing its intention to facilitate the establishment  in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. Palestinian refugees are people who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israel conflict and the 1967 Six-Day War.