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(This is Jada Bryanton's work! Not copied!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

https://www.un.org/en/about-us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev

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- US developed spy plane the U2
- US was caught spying on the USSR with U2
- USSR was mad and wanted an apology
- US refused to apologize on the grounds of protecting America
- The pilot was imprisoned in Russia
- US and USSR did a 'spy swap' that freed the pilot

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- De- Stalinization was only allowed in Russia not other USSR states
- De-Stalinization would 'undermine' communism in smaller countries if allowed
- Hungarians wanted freedom from the USSR
- USSR wasn't expecting the uprising so they did nothing
- Khrushchev couldn't allow that to happen as it set a negative example to other states
- The USSR invaded Hungary in '56 and killed 30,000
- The west couldn't help Hungary without declaring war
- Hungary fell into stricter communism

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- Created in 1947, Warsaw Poland
- Communist conference
- Designed to spread Communism and protect communist states from the USA
- Cominform expelled Tito the leader of Yugoslavia because he wouldn't submit to Stalin

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- Prevented further US isolationism
- Started US activism in global affairs
- Another act in the war against communism

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- 33rd US president
- implemented Marshall plan
- Democrat
- Intervened in Korea
- WW1 Veteran
- Advocate for racial equality
- Helped prevent second economic depression

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- Citizens own businesses
- Revolves around free markets
- Usually multiple political parties
- A democracy
- Personal freedoms are valued
- No censorship of media

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- Businesses owned by state
- One political party
- No votes
- More important to serve the state than to have personal rights
- Media is controlled by who is in power

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- USA promised to protect countries from Communism
- A plan to help European countries recover so they could trade with the USA
- Fund of 15 billion dollars
- Funded 16 countries
- Stalin hated this and didn't allow Eastern countries to apply

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- Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill agreed to split Germany
- It was recognized that Stalin had Eastern influence
- Stalin had Poland
- Stalin wanted a 'friendly' divide to protect Poland and USSR from possible German threats
- Created Iron curtain

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- Allies meet again
- Germany had been defeated
- Churchill replaced and Roosevelt dead
- US didn't want a weak Germany due to fear of Communism
- US wanted to build Germany
- USSR wanted to weaken Germany
- Created conflict pattern between USA and USSR
- Germany was split

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- Was apart of the Glasnost policy
- Gorbachev USSR reform
- Attempt to end Era of stagnation
- However had to fail before it was successful leading to the dissolving of the USSR

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- Means ' openness and transparency ' in Russian
- Popularized by Gorbachev in the 80s
- Policy allowing and encouraging the discussion and scrutiny of the Soviet leaders

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- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Collective security used to agree to mutual defense
- Only involves certain country
- Has 'aspiring members'

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- United Nations
- Created 1945
- Created to prevent war and keep peace in developing world
- National assembly

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- Soviet First Secretary
- Responsible for 'de-Stalinization'
- Sponsored early USSR space program
- Narrowly avoided Cuban missile crisis
- Negotiated nuclear peace with Kennedy
- Did support Stalin's purges and approved thousands of arrests

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- Was Kennedy's Republican competition
- Almost won election
- 37th US president
- Ended Vietnam involvement
- Ended draft
- Gained anti-ballistic treaty with USSR
- Gained diplomatic relations with China
- Presided over moon landing ending space race

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- 35th US president
- Served during peak of cold war
- Was involved in most of the nuclear war
- Was involved in Vietnam
- Was assassinated in Texas, his wife picked up part of his head

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- Last and 8th Communist leader
- Ended USSR
- Although he was Socialist he believed reform was necessary and started relaxing the USSR's strict rule

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- Stalin started USSR
- Was first Communist dictator
- Refused democracy

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- West Berlin was successful under democratic rule
- West Berlin's success embarrassed USSR
- East Berliners started fleeing to the West
- This embarrassed the USSR more
- USSR demanded the US give up the west
- US declined
- Khrushchev ordered border of guns, barbed wire, and concrete
- USSR threatened to kill anyone who tried to pass over border
- Kennedy used this as basis to trash talk communism
- Kennedy pledged to destroy communism for Germany

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- The US dropped the nuclear bombs in Japan
- US and USSR were in competition after WW2
- The bombs showed USSR how powerful the US was
- USSR wouldn't be threatened
- USSR starts developing nuclear weapons
- USSR and USA start building more atomic weapons as power flexes

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- Kennedy tries to overthrow Castro in '61
- Castro becomes convinced the US is the enemy
- Castro turns to USSR for protection against USA
- Khrushchev sends planes, boats, and missiles to Cuba in '62
- US spy planes confirm Soviet missile base in Cuba
- Kennedy blockades Cuba
- US spy plane is shot down in Cuba
- Soviets agree to remove missiles from Cuba
- Both sides recognize narrow escapes from mutual destruction
- Hot-line is set up between US and USSR
- Relations slightly improve to decrease in the future

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- South Korean anti-communist dictator Syngman Rhee had American support
-  North Korean communist dictator Kim Il Sung had Soviet support
- Neither dictator was content with 38th parallel divide
- North invades South, America fears global communist take over starting in Korea
- America gets involved, causing USSR to get involved
- Communism and Democracy clash with Korean civil war as base

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- Korea was under Japanese control during WW2
- After Axis powers fall to Allies, Allies divided Korea
- Soviets were given the north half
- Americans were given control of the south half
- Both sides of Korea were ruled by dictators
- Korean civil war breaks out between rival governments

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- America supported the South
- USSR and China support the North
- America continues war on communism in Vietnam via fighting communist Russia without actually engaging in American-Russian war

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Began 1947 and ended in 1991

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- France allows Vietnam to be independent
- Viet Minh waged successful guerrilla war
- Supported by communist China in '49 in North Vietnam
- North Vietnam becomes communist
-South Vietnam becomes anti-communist with America

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- In the 50s USSR and USA start developing space tech
- The space tech was to deliver missiles that could kill a lot of people
- US and USSR start building ICBMS
- USSR took early lead with release of Sputnik 1 satellite
- 3 years later US develops Polaris technologies
- US and USSR start locating friendly countries neighbouring the enemy
- US had missiles in Turkey, so USSR put missiles in Cuba
- Space race and Nuclear race put USSR and USA in nuclear war
- Both countries thought having weapons of mass destruction would prevent war