2. A description of what the event was:

Berlin was located deep in the Soviet zone, but it was also divided into four sections
3. Date(s) of the event:

June 1948
4. Key individuals/groups involved: Russians and Germans
5. Was the event a victory for Democracy or Communism? Democracy

Berlin Airlift- the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air (lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo)
Berlin Wall-separated east and west Berlin for years until November 1989, one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War.
Iron Curtain-  political divide between 2 areas after WWII (from 1945-1991)

Marshall Plan-aka European Recovery Plan was a US program providing aid to Western Europe after the devastation of WWII (provided more than 15 billion to help finance the rebuilding efforts of the continent)

Douglas MacArthur-  MacArthur was soon selected to command United Nations forces in Korea. After stemming the North Korean advance near Pusan, he carried out a daring landing at Inch'ŏn in September and advanced into North Korea in October as the North Korean Army rapidly disintegrated.
United Nations (role of it)- June 27, 1950: United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 83 declared North Korean actions constituted a breach of peace, recommending UN members provide assistance to South Korea to repel the attack and restore peace on the Korean Peninsula.
38th Parallel- the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south

Ho Chi Minh- Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman. He served as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and President from 1945 until his death in 1969
Vietcong- National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, was an armed communist political revolutionary organization in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Vietnamization- policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role
17th Parallel- the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam as established by the 1954 Geneva Conference

Mikhail Gorbachev-  a Russian and former Soviet politician. He was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union. He was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-1991).
Ronald Reagan-American politician who was the 40th president of the United States from (1981-1989). A member of the Republican Party and he previously served as the 33rd governor of California from (1967-1975) after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader.

- Gorbachev introduced perestroika and than after glasnost. 
Glasnost helped people do didn't like their current government gain more power. This was a big pushing factor to the collapse of the Soviet Union. 
   2. A description of what the event was:

-14 countries declared their independence from the soviet union (end of 1991)
- A leading cause of the fall of the soviet union was Gorbachev's decision to loosen his reign on countries in Eastern Europe
  3. Date(s) of the event
Summer of 1989 - Fall 1991 

  4. Key individuals/groups involved
-Soviet union 
-George W bush 
-The communist party
- Milkhail Gorbachev 
- The Democratic Party

- There were two ideologically opposed groups both trying to control a united China 
-The need for a united China came from the years of separation and imperialism within their homeland; China. 
  2. A description of what the event was

- This was was fought between the (ROC) "Republic of China" Kuomintang (KMT), and the remaining forces of the Chinese Communist part (CCP)
   3. Date(s) of the event

1927-1950
  4. Key individuals/groups involved

-Important generals would be:
 - Bai Chongxi
 -Chen Cheng 
 - Moa Zedong 
Groups:
-(CCP)
-(KMT)
-ROC)
  5. Was the event a victory for Democracy or Communism?
- The Civil War ended as a victory for the (CCP) or the Chinese communist party 
  6. Cultural Revolution "Chinas"
- This was a rebellion that came after Chairman Mao's appeal in 1966 to reinstitute the communist ideology in China.
  7. Chiang Kai- Shek 
-He was a military leader, Chinese. Nationalist politican, and he served. as the leader of the Republic of China from 1928-1949
 8. Great Leap Forward
-The Chinese communist party and Mao made and executed a 5year economic plan. However this began in 1958. but was later abandoned in 1961 
- This "great leap forward" lead to 30-55 million deaths due to preventable things like starvation and forced labor 
- During this time their was great environmental and economic destruction 
  9. Mao Zedong 
- He helped the Chinese workers and Peasants 
- Led the Jiangxi Soviets radical land polices 
- Became the head of the CPC
10. The battle of Taiwan was interrupted by the Japanese invasion. but. was intended to be the final chapter in the Chinese Civil War.

-There. was a Cuban Communist movement 
-Nikita Khrushchev decided to put nuclear missiles in Cuba
-Fidel Castro came to power
   2. A description of what the event was
-The soviet Union and United States. were close to war over the new presence of nuclear missiles in Cuba. 
  3. Date(s) of the event

10/2/1962- 11/20/1962
   4. Key individuals/groups involved
- John F. Kennedy (President of the United States during the Cuban Missile crisis)
- Soviet Union 
-  United States 
-Nikita Khrushchev (pushed a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he also positioned nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida)
- Cuba
-Fidel Castro (Castro had a very heavy part in this crisis as because of his actions the world was close to nuclear war.)
   5. Was the event a victory for Democracy or Communism?

- There was no clear victory for either Democracy or Communism as the resolution. was the United States taking their missiles from Turkey and. Cuban getting rid of theirs. 
   6. Bay of Pigs
- The failed Bay of Pigs invasion is where the origins of the Cuban Missiles Crisis started
- During this the US supported Cuban exilies hoping to cause a uprising against Castro (Fidel Castro)