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The Cold war was a conflict that started 1949 between superpowers, U.S. and the Soviet Union because of their different beliefs about government. The U.S. tried to contain the spread of communism.

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A decision that was made was to make a plan for post - war to divide Germany and Berlin into zones of occupation to be controlled by each of their military forces.
Leaders who went to the conference were Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union).

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2.  Know about U.S. involvement in the Cold War.

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2.  Know about U.S. involvement in the Cold War.

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NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It formed as a response to the Berlin Blockade. It was also another attempt to stop the spread of communism.
The Truman Doctrine's purpose was to stop the spread of communism by supporting countries who reject it.
During the Marshall plan, Western Europe was in ruins. The U.S. proposed aid to help all European countries in need.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the Soviet Union placed nuclear bombs in Cuba that pointed towards the U.S. The U.S. also secretly having bombs in Turkey facing towards the Soviet Union put pressure on them. John F. Kennedy agreed to remove the missiles from Turkey. The U.S. agreed that they wouldn't invade Cuba if the Soviet Union Removed the nuclear bombs. The Bay of Pigs was when John F. Kennedy gather all Cubans and trained them to fight against Cuba but failed because they were outnumbered which caused embarrassment to the U.S.
The Containment was a plan to stop the spread of communism. Specifically trying to control the Soviet Union from spreading communism into Western Europe and other nations.

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3.  Know about Soviet Involvement in the Cold War.

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3.  Know about Soviet Involvement in the Cold War.

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The Iron Curtain was a term created by Churchill describing the division between Democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.
After World War II Stalin had agreed to permit free elections in Easter Europe.
The War Saw Pact is the alliance formed by the Soviet Union in response to NATO. It resulted in the building of the Berlin Wall which separated East and West Germany.

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The Space Race was a competition between Soviet Union and the U.S. This regarded enhancing technology.
Important events that occurred were on October 4, 1957. The Soviet Union successfully launched the worlds first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1.
July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed the first two humans on the moon, both American men.

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The war in Vietnam started as an independence movement. At this time Vietnam was colonized by France. They turned to communist to figh against the French.
The Korean War divided Korean nation. north of the 38th parallel was communist and south democratic. After the war ended the nation remained divided with the north communist and the south democratic.

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6. Know about President Nixon’s contributions to the Cold War.

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6. Know about President Nixon’s contributions to the Cold War.

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the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. Détente which is a release of tension 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,

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7. When did East and West Germany finally reunify?

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7. When did East and West Germany finally reunify?

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East and West Germany finally reunified after the fall of the Berlin Wall which divided the country

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8. Know about the fall of the Soviet Union.

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8. Know about the fall of the Soviet Union.

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The glasnot was a cause. Reform under Mikhail Gorbachev to create more freedom and openness both socially and politically in the U.S.S.R.
Allowed churches to open, released political prisoners, publication of books that had been banned and more freedom in the media.The perestroika is an Economic, and political reform and restructuring under Gorbechev in an effort to revive the Soviet economy.
Move away from a command economy. People were allowed to open small businesses. Goal to retain communism but make it more efficient and productive. Also resulted in limited elections and changes in foreign policy especially in regards to limiting spending on arms. Mikhail is a General Party Secretary and Leader of the Soviet Union in 1985. Unlike previous leaders, he wanted to move the Soviet Union in a new direction away from a totalitarian state. Pursued both economic and social reforms. After an uprising in Lithuania (a soviet satellite state) in the early 1990s he was replaced by Boris Yeltsin, the first directly elected president of Russia. His reforms led to the breakup of the Soviet Union and eventually the end to Communist Russia.

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The cultural revolution is a  political movement initiated by Mao Zedong that lasted from 1966 to 1976. It was a campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation. It was also called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. They wanted to cleanse China of revisionists. The great leap forward was after the First Five-Year Plan the second step was the Great Lepa Forward. This would mobilize the population and industrialize China quickly. As a part of this in 1958 the vestiges of peoples plots were destroyed. The Great Leap forward, because of bad weather, poor leadership, and soviet withdrawal of aid, ended has a falure and a time of famine

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iro there was conflict over this land.The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rooted in a dispute over land claimed by Jews as their biblical birthright and by the Palestinians, who seek self-determination.