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August 1991 -December 1991
Perestroika - Meaning in Russian is basically rebuild, A political movement to Rebuild the Communist party in the 1980s.
-The led to abolishment of the soviet union.
-This was a dub for democracy.
Mikhail Gorbachev caused the Perestroika.
the cause was the budget for supplies in the Soviet Union declined which made the Soviet Union's economy go into shambles.
-Andropov played a dominant role in the decision to intervene militarily in Afghanistan on December 24, 1979, insisting on the invasion although he knew that the international community would find the USSR culpable.
Operation cyclone was the vandalism act to destroy and blow up the Soviet Union

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This was between 1945-1949
-This took place in China and this was a major conflict between China's Nationalistic government and Russia's communist party.
-Basically this was a militarized event that fell under two opposing points, the Nationalists and the Communists in China.
-The key groups were Chinese Nationalist party and the Communist party.
-Chiang Kai-Shek was Chinese leader that politically was apart of the Nationalist Party.
-Great Leap Forward was a campaign that made the country a Communist economy.
1927 Mao Zedong led a Communist revolt and led the communist government in 1949

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-The cause of this crisis was because of (Mutually Assured Destruction) which made the Americans and Russians have tension but could not use force because of the use of atomic explosives can cause mass destruction.
-This event almost became the fate of the world.
-Nikita Khrushchev: Placed nukes in Cuba because Russia can spread communism.
-1961 John F. Kennedy the Bay of Pigs invasion was used to gain back Cuba as it seemed that a bunch of angry Cuban exiles wanted revenge and gain back their land that they were kicked out of which was a loss by the Americans.
-By 1962 Soviet Russians established nuclear weapons in Cuba.
This resulted in a stalemate because Americans and Russians made a treaty to abolish the use of missiles in turkey and Cuba against each other which John F. Kennedy was still skeptical after doing so

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Causes
- Spread of communism and America wanting to contain it.
Description
- North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
Dates of Events
- November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975
Key Individuals and Groups
- Ho Chi Minh
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Victory for Whom
- Nobody won the Vietnam war
Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman. He served as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Vietcong
- A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam
Vietnamization
- the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
17th Parallel
-  circle of latitude that is 17 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. The parallel is particularly significant in the history of Vietnam

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Causes
- The spread of Communism during the Cold War, America wanted to contain communism from the domino effect.
Description
- Conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea
Dates of Events
- June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953
Key Individuals and Groups
- Douglas C. MacArthur
- Kim Il-sung
Victory for Whom?
- No Victorian
Douglas MacArthur
- Douglas MacArthur was an American military leader who served as General of the Army
Role of the United Nations
- To maintain international peace and security,
38th Parallel
-  circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.

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Causes
- Allies winning WWII and giving all blame to Germany.
Description
- Germany was divided into four occupied zones: Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the Soviet Union in the east
Dates of Events
- Potsdam Conference: July 17th- August 2nd 1945
Key Individuals and groups
- Joseph Stalin
- Winston Churchill
- President Truman
Victory for Whom
- Victory for all because land was divided between powers and led to more land for all
Berlin Airlift
-  Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin.
Berlin Wall
- Was a wall dividing East and West Berlin.
Iron Curtain
- An imaginary line dividing the  Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism
Marshall Plan
- American initiative that enacted to provide foreign aid to western Europe countries.

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This was caused by the very first use of American bombs upon the Japanese island which made people race to have their own military equipment. This was an event that many countries built atomic bombs for their military advantage.
-July 20, 1960The U.S. tests the first submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).
-October 30, 1961The Soviet Union detonates Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear device in human history. The weapon yielded 57 megatons of TNT, four times larger than any nuclear device tested by the United States. The amount of explosive energy released by Tsar Bomba amounted to all of the explosives used during World War II multiplied by ten!
-October 16, 1962The Cuban Missile Crisis begins after surveillance photos taken by a  U-2 flight over Cuba show Soviet Missiles on the island.
Soviet Union and the United States were greatly involved but Germany and Britain also wanted to create nuclear weapons.
Nobody won as a result it is still a constant build of nuclear weapons: Russia now has enough bombs to destroy mankind.

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Causes

- political reforms inside the Soviet bloc, escalating pressure from the people of eastern Europe and ultimately, confusion over an East German directive to open the border

Description
- The fall of the berlin wall was a long awaited event that was mass protested because it divided east and west Berlin keeping some citizens from their freedom.
Dates
- November 9, 1989
Key Individuals/Groups Involved
- Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev,
Was the event a victory for Democracy or Communism?
- Democracy
Ronald Reagan
- U.S president who called the secretary of the Soviet Union Communist Party and ordered him to tear down the wall and said "Tear down this wall!"
Mikhail Gorbachev
- The secretary of the Soviet Union Communist party