Monday, May 6th

[3rdCarly]

Ancient Russia
• Vladimir I
o Expanded Russia a lot
o Change religion from Pagan to Christian.
• Oleg
o Developed the Trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople
• Goals of Vladimir
o Uniting the country
USSR
• Joseph Stalin
o Leader during WWII
o He killed more people than Hitler did.
• Vladimir Lenin
o He made Russia communist.
• Non-aggression pact
o Agreement that Germany would not attack or invade USSR
o Germany broke this pact
• Beginning of WWII USSR fought on the axis side(Germany, Italy, Japan) but then they switched to the allies side.(GB, US, USSR, France)
Cold War, USSR
• Relationship with U.S.
o USSR was communists and socialism, US was capitalism and democracy
o Socialism- fairness in the economy
• Joseph McCarthy was accusing a lot of people of being communist without any evidence.
• Space Race
o Wanted a new frontier to show world power
o Sputnik was sent into space by Russia
o US sent a man to the moon first
• Bay of Pigs
o Attempt to get rid of Castro and his government
o Unable to get Castro out of Cuba (huge failure)
• Vietnam War
o Russia helped the North Vietnamese
o Involved China and USSR
o Because they wanted to spread communism
• Korean War
o North Korea was communist and South Korea was not
o They fought for many years
o They called the thirty-eight parallel still the divider today.
• Cuban Missile Crisis
o 1 year after Bay of Pigs
o USSR putting missiles in Cuba
o Both countries were communist
o Missiles were supposedly for defensive purposes
o US took missiles out of Turkey
o US promised never to invade Cuba again
• USSR only got along with countries that were communists and they tried to force 3rd world countries to become communists.
• Main Goals of the Cold War
o USSR: spread communism
o US: Stop the spread of communism
Post-Cold War