The Cuban Missile Crisis
Closest we've come to a nuclear war, Soviets were building arms in Cuba because the missiles couldn't reach us from the Soviet Union, EX-COMM was created to come up with a solution to this prblem, decided to put naval blockade around Cuba to prevent weapons from getting to Cuba, we both realized the consequences if a nuclear war started, we made a deal where the Soviets would take their missiles out of Cuba if we would agree not to invade Cuba, we also agreed to remove missles from Turkey, Soviets continued to stockpile their missiles, leaders were JFK and Khrushchev
China Becomes Communist
Mao Zedong (leader of Chinese revolution, led communist party of China, founding father of the people's republic of China), Mao claimed to be running a coalition gov't during a 20 year war with the Japs, lots of economic problems (little industry, money with no value, high unemployment, food shortages)
agrarian reform law (confiscated land and redistributed it, put land in wrong hands, many landownders found guilty for crimes against their peasants), land revolution (by end people who would speak against communism were dead/re-educated)
change in china, marriage reform law (no arranged marriages), cities changed (no cars, foreigners/foreign businesses), fixed wages/prices, state bank started (bank needed support from communist party to get loan)
three antis campaign, result of Korean War, targeted communist cadres that became close to china's capitalists, tried to get rid of capitalism
people who spoke out against communism faced death/prison/reform
transition to socialism, first five year plan (stressed development of heavy industry, Soviets also used this), lots of needs (food, domestic capital, technology), began to collectivize agriculture, no private enterprise, gov't nationalized banking/trade/industry
great leap forward, Mao's attempt to modernize china, decided to focus on agriculture/industry, reformed to communes, ended disastrously
great proletarian cultural revolution, advance socialism by removing capitalistic elements from society, brought massive chaos
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