Cold War

Stalin was dying and therefore the people of Russia lost hope in him. They looked to a new leader and the U.S. did not see that they wanted peace, because after WWII Stalin proclaimed that War with the US was inevitable. Stalin fled to Switzerland because he felt that a military coup was coming. Being Stalin he was correct of course, and the US granted him diplomatic immunity to enter the US under a agreement that he could be treated for his disease and in turn give up information regarding the Soviet Union's defense systems. The new Militaristic government pushed for a industrialization and ultimately Nuclear Weapons causing the Cold war.

U2 Spy planes took arial photographs

In Vietnam it can reach up to 40 degrees Celsius.

The Soviet Union (Russia) and Communist China support Communist N. Korea. The USA and the United Nations supported S. Korea. Their is still trouble Today between N. and S. Korea, even though the war ended in 1953.

The Cuban Missile Crisis. The USA found out the Soviets were building missiles that could carry nuclear warheads on Cuba. Missiles which had the range to reach the USA. The USA had a naval blockade around Cuba to keep Soviet ships from reaching Cuba. A USA U-2 recon. spy plane was shot down over Cuba and the American pilot killed. The Soviet ships went back to Russia. The Soviet dismantled their missile launch sites, and the USA dismantled it's missile sites in Turkey, which could hit Russia, if launched.

It dropped two thermonuclear bombs on Japan.

UN forces remained in South Korea to guarantee the integrity of the cease fire. In South Vietnam the Coalition forces were withdrawn, and the North Vietnamese were able to mount an overwhelming invasion in breach of the treaty.

1. How did the atomic bomb create the cold war?

2. Why did the atomic bomb create the cold war?

3. Why couldn't North VN be invaded?

4. Why wasn't North VN invaded?

5. Why weren't nukes used in the VN war?

6. What would have been the possible after effects if the "A-bomb" was used in VN?

7. What lesson was learned when the US invaded N. Korea in 1950; and this lesson was "apparently" adhered to when fighting in VN?

Eastern Bloc

By leading Americans to view Communist beliefs as dangerous to the United Statesr

Balance of power.

In 1949, the Soviet Union demonstrated that it had acquired the atomic bomb. This was likely due to technology liberated from Germany and the documents provided by spies and sympathizers in the US and England. The second major shock was the final victory of Mao Zedong and the Communists in China, which established it as the largest Communist regime in the world, and posed a threat to the interests of the US in Asia and the Pacific.

It "might" be an even split; but let's look at the particulars:

1. Both the US/allies & USSR raced for Berlin in 1945, both got there and divided Berlin and Germany into two separate nations, East and West Germany (and East and West Berlin). But, the USSR put up the Berlin Wall...not the US.

2. Both the US/allies & USSR raced into Japan in 1945, both got there, but this time the US was abit more experienced in dealing with the Soviets (Russians) and only let them take Northern Korea and portions of some of northern Japan; Japan and it's capital were not divided up like Germany was.

3. Both the US/allies & USSR were in Korea in 1945, and both nations agreed to a division of Korea at the 38th Parallel. Then 5 years later, Stalin equips the North Koreans with T34 tanks, aircraft, artillery, small arms, ammo, fuel, and goads them into invading South Korea in 1950. That same year Communist China enters the fray because the US/allies push to close to their borders and the Red Chinese didn't know if the US/allies were going to stop at their border or...invade Red China! So the Communist Chinese counter-attack immediately. When Stalin dies in 1953...the Korean War also ends.

So what do we have? The Soviets were taking territory, putting up walls, invading foreign countries (South Korea)...and the US was NOT. The US was seemingly always on the defense, while the communists were (seemingly) always on the offense. They even actually won a war against the free world...they physically drove their T54 tanks into a free country and took it over on 30 April 1975. The US couldn't afford to stop it; the price the US paid in blood had already been paid...and the US didn't want to pay anymore.

How: The bombing from Hiroshima and Nagasaki When: in 1945

10 won= 1 cent

100 won= 10 cents

500 won= 50 cents

1000 won= 1 dollar

10000 won= 10 dollars

50000 won= 50 dollars

in America we call it dollars in Korea they call it won

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North Korea is a sovereign country that shares the Korean peninsula with South Korea and is located south of China and west of Japan. It is known for its Dynastic Communist Regime over which the Kim Family (Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il, and Kim Jong-Un) has presided.

Firstly, they weren't countries they were 2 "Superpowers" of The USA (America) and The USSR (Russia), the war is considered "Cold" due to the fact that there was no actual fighting involved between the two, merely wars that they meddled with, Korea and Vietnam being prime examples.

The Berlin Blockade escalated the Cold War by showing that the Soviet Union did not want Germany to be a independent, unified country. Because West Berliners were cut off from the rest of the capitalist world, they needed food to be flown in by Allied planes. It is also significant because of the "candy bombers" (Germans who were children back then still remember pilots dropping sweets during their supply runs).

The Soviet Union's (and more specifically, Joseph Stalin's) goals during World War II were two-fold.

First, they wanted to destroy their most dangerous rival and belligerent, Nazi Germany.

Secondly, they wished to expand their Soviet Communist system to control as many people and resources as possible.

i don't know for sure, but they weren't really allies in ww2, you see, the soviet union became friends with Germany so that they could split Poland, but, what both parties did not know was that they were both using each other, and socialism and the American way, are very different, and always, to superpowers always become rivals

It took the Containment Policy a step further. It convinced the Soviets that they would face military and economic resistance if they tried to take over other areas. The Truman Doctrine was a policy of supporting anti-communist regimes with military and economic aid. The Doctrine was first used in support of democratic governments in Greece and Turkey.

the domino theory was the theory that once something happens, it leads to a certain series of events.

in the cold war, the domino theory was the threat of the spread of communism throughout the world. once a country falls to communism, it was said that soon after, its neighbouring countries would also fall.