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The Cold War was a conflict started in 1949 between two large powers in the world the Soviet Union and the United States the cause for the war was that both nations did not agree with each others types of govt. The United States was a Democracy and the Soviet Union was Communist.

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1. The Yalta Conference, what were the decisions made? Who attended it?

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1. The Yalta Conference, what were the decisions made? Who attended it?

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The Yalta Conference was where the decision for dividing Germany and its capital Berlin into zones of occupation, controlled by their military forces. The three major leaders at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt from the United States, Winston Churchill from Great Britain and Stalin from the Soviet Union.

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3. Know about Soviet involvement on the Cold War. Which countries involved and what it was the Iron Curtain? What did Stalin say about free elections after WWII? What was the Warsaw Pact a response to 

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3. Know about Soviet involvement on the Cold War. Which countries involved and what it was the Iron Curtain? What did Stalin say about free elections after WWII? What was the Warsaw Pact a response to 

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The countries that were involved in the Iron Curtain were Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia, the Iron Curtain was the division between Democratic Western Germany and Communist Eastern Germany. At first Stalin said that he would hold free election but did not actually mean it. The Warsaw Pact was in response to NATO, it was an alliance formed by the Soviet Union.

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4. Know about the Space Race. How did it affect the Soviet Union and America. What events were important during the space race?

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4. Know about the Space Race. How did it affect the Soviet Union and America. What events were important during the space race?

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There was a lot of tension between the U.S and the Soviet Union because of the competition between one another and the need to prove who is better. During the space race the important events were when Russia sent the first satellite into outer space, then the first man into outer space, but the U.S won after it sent the first man to the moon.

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5. Know about Proxy Wars (dates, course of events, significance, involved parties, how did they end, where the countries are on a map...) Vietnam and Korea.

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5. Know about Proxy Wars (dates, course of events, significance, involved parties, how did they end, where the countries are on a map...) Vietnam and Korea.

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The Vietnam war lasted from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975 and the Korean war lasted from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. Vietnam was separated into two, communists and south democratic, it started to settle the government. The Vietnam war started because it wanted its independence from France. The United States was involved in both of these wars. The Korean war ended after MacArthur launched a surprise attack on North Korea and half of them surrendered and the other half retreated, an armistice was signed in July 1953 but it still remained divided. The Vietnam war ended after the the United States backed out of it and it became all communist.

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9. Communist China. Why Chinese communist took control in 1949, Cultural Revolution, and Great Leap Forward

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9. Communist China. Why Chinese communist took control in 1949, Cultural Revolution, and Great Leap Forward

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Communist China took control in in 1949 because of Mao's promises that he made to the peasants about returning their land. The Cultural Revolution was a major uprising lead by the Red Guards, the goal was to make a society where peasants and workers are treated equally. The Great Leap Forward was a plan by Mao Zedong that required larger collective farms or communes, instead of it being the great forward it was more the great leap back because of insufficient planning.

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6. Know about President Nixon’s contributions to the Cold War, Vietnamization. What is detente?

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6. Know about President Nixon’s contributions to the Cold War, Vietnamization. What is detente?

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Vietnamization was President Nixon's policy to end U.S involvement in the Vietnam War, it was where U.S troops pull out of South Vietnam while it increases their combat role. Detente was the end to containment and the Truman Doctrine, it was the acceptance towards Communism.

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8. Know about the fall of the Soviet Union, Glasnost, Perestroika and Mikhail Gorbachev. When/why did the Soviet Union break up

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8. Know about the fall of the Soviet Union, Glasnost, Perestroika and Mikhail Gorbachev. When/why did the Soviet Union break up

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Glasnost was a kind of openness for the Soviet Union which they would give more freedoms to their people like "freedom of speech". Perestroika was an economic reform which is a change in business and industry. Mikhail Gorbachev is the person who took over after Brezhnev died and he made a lot of changes, but in the end the Soviet Union still fell. The end of the Soviet regime was on 1991 and it broke up because of all of Gorbachev's reforms that he had placed.

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2. Know about U.S. involvement in the Cold War. Why was NATO set up? What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine? What happened with the Marshall Plan and why? Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs. What was Containment and what was its goal?

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2. Know about U.S. involvement in the Cold War. Why was NATO set up? What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine? What happened with the Marshall Plan and why? Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs. What was Containment and what was its goal?

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NATO was formed in response to the Berlin Blockade which was an attempt by the Soviet Union to cut off access to Berlin from other countries. The main purpose of the Truman Doctrine was for the United States to aid countries that were in need of it and that rejected communism to stop the spread of it, one of the first countries to receive aid was Greece. The Marshall Plan was a proposition from the U.S. to help European countries in need because after WWII Western Europe was in ruins, this plan costed up to 12.5 billion dollars. The Cuban Missile Crisis came after the Bay of Pigs and the Bay of Pigs was where the U.S trained Cuban refugees to fight back against Cuba and it failed, later on the Soviet Union started making missile sites in Cuba and President Kennedy then learned about it and demanded they be removed. Containment was a U.S policy in which they tried many things to stop the spread of communism because their main goal was to stop or restrain the spread of communism.

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7. When did East and West Germany finally reunify? What event led to the reunification?

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7. When did East and West Germany finally reunify? What event led to the reunification?

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East and West Germany finally unified on October 3rd 1990. The fall of the Berlin Wall is the event that led to reunification of Germany in 1990.

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10. Creation of Israel. When/why Israel was created? What is the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict about?

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10. Creation of Israel. When/why Israel was created? What is the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict about?

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Israel was created in 1948 by the UN as a place for the Jewish people to go after so much harm had been done to them. The Israeli/ Palestinian conflict was about the UN separating the land into two, one side for the Jews and the other for the Palestinians since the people could not stand each other, each thinking that they owned that piece of land.`