Berlin Blockade
• June 24 1948- begin
• Ends may 12 1949
• What caused it
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o Cold war
o Usa and ussr had different aims on what to do to Germany
• What was it
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o Attempted to block allied access to Berlin
o Soviet union failed
o Stalin wanted all of Berlin
Berlin airlift
o Successful
NATO
China Becomes Commi.
Chaing Kai-Shek- nationalist
Mao Zee-dung- Communist
Everyone worked to make china better
NUCLEAR ARMS RACE- the build up of nuclear weapons
Soviets- very concerned
USA-
Massive retaliation
Anti-nuclear movement- reduce AND STOP NUCEAL WEAPON USE
Berlin wall going up and coming down
Nixon’s visit to china
• 1972 Nixon goes to chins
• fist time a USA president visited china
• why: wanted to normalize relations with china
o reduce trade restrictions
o end 25 yr isolation
• one china policy
o wanted the PRC should be China’s main government
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1970’s peace attempts
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
Gorbachev and Reagan
Gorrbachav- general secretary of the communist party
President 1990 – when he left she clicked to fast
Perestroika- Gorrbachev’s idea of economic, political, and social reconstruction
Glasnost- policy of openness and freedom by Gorrbachev in the 1980’s
Reagan-democrat cold war and bombing of Libya
Korean Conflict:
• Potsdam’s conference divvied Korea
• South controlled by USA (democratic)
• North controlled by SU (communist)
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• ENDED 1953 but we still have troops of there today
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