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Causes: The Hungarians were patriotic and they hated Russian control (especially the secret police called the AVH in Hungary), also hated the hard-line Stalinist regimes that Russia had put in place, Khrushchev's policy of 'de-Stalinisation' caused problems

Individuals/groups involved: Khrushchev, Hungarians, Russians, Hungarian People's Republic, Mátyás Rákosi, Imre Nagy, Cardinal Mindszenty

Significant features:  Students and workers stormed the streets of Budapest (the capital of Hungary ) and issued their Sixteen Points which included personal freedom, more food, the removal of the secret police, and the removal of Russian control, on October 31st, 1956, Nagy broadcast that Hungary would withdraw itself from the Warsaw Pact, Hundreds of tanks went into Budapest and probably 30,000 people were killed, Soviet rule was re-established

Whether or not it was a NATO/Warsaw Pact issue: Warsaw Pact

Whether or not it was connected to the Containment theory: Yes

Was it a victory for Capitalism or Communism: Communism

Whether or not it was a nuclear weapons issue: No

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Causes: President Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, brutal suppression, and poverty

Individuals/groups involved: Fulgencio Batista, Cubans, Fidel Castro, Che Guavara

Significant features: A revolutionary junta led by military officer Fulgencio Batista seizes control of Cuba, Castro leads a ragtag group of 160 rebels in an attack against the Moncada military base in Santiago de Cuba, Cuban dissidents invade Cuba at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs fiasco), Castro declares Cuba a socialist country moving closer to the Soviet sphere

Whether or not it was a NATO/Warsaw Pact issue: Warsaw Pact

Whether or not it was connected to the Containment theory: Yes

Was it a victory for Capitalism or Communism: Communism

Whether or not it was a nuclear weapons issue: No

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Causes: Qing lost a lot of territory and its rule fell into decline quickly, limited decentralization of power, increasing foreign challenges, upset the masses

Individuals/groups involved: Revolutionaries in Southern China and Qing Dynasty

Significant features: Establishing the Republic of China in the place of the Qing Dynasty and ended the imperial system, May Fourth Movement and the Long March occur later on

Whether or not it was a NATO/Warsaw Pact issue: Neither

Whether or not it was connected to the Containment theory: No

Was it a victory for Capitalism or Communism: The Republic of China was communist

Whether or not it was a nuclear weapons issue: No

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Causes: Struggle between French colonial forces and native Vietnamese citizens supported by Chinese communists, revolves around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia

Individuals/groups involved: North Vietnam, China, South Vietnam, United States

Significant features: United States forces entered the conflict in support of the French in order to fight communism but when they left, the Americans fought the war alone

Whether or not it was a NATO/Warsaw Pact issue: Warsaw Pact

Whether or not it was connected to the Containment theory: Yes, the United States fought with other anti-communist allies against the communists

Was it a victory for Capitalism or Communism: Capitalism

Whether or not it was a nuclear weapons issue: No, the U.S. could have but ultimately did not

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Causes: North Korea invades South Korea; North Korea was supported by the Soviet Union and China, South Korea was supported by the United States, Communism vs. Non-communism

Individuals/groups involved: Communists, Non-communists, U.S. troops, South Korean troops, North Korean troops, Kim Il-sung, Harry Truman

Significant features: Some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army crossed the 38th parallel and American troops were sent on South Korea's behalf as they were being defeated quickly; some 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the war; the Korean peninsula is still divided today

Whether or not it was a NATO/Warsaw Pact issue: NATO- raised the apparent threat of all Communist countries working together

Whether or not it was connected to the Containment theory: Yes, the U.S. joins South Korea in their fight to stop the North Korean communists from taking control

Was it a victory for Capitalism or Communism: Capitalism

Whether or not it was a nuclear weapons issue: No