Today is Wednesday and we are continuing our presentations. NATO was the allied powers' peace keeping organization that was designed to fight communism. Our country was pretty much the dominant force. We were the biggest anti communist and we had the atom bomb.
NATO is still around today and it has been a pretty good organization. De-Stalinization. This was started by Nikitia Khrushchev on March of 1956. He stated that he would begin the process of De-Stalinization which would begin after Stalin's death. .
A Cult of Personality is when a person uses his power to create a heroic image of one. De-Stalinization was a great way for Nikitia to start a communist revolution. The entire military had to be reorganized because Stalin had diminished the Military.
Peaceful Coexistence was a theory by the Soviets to try and remain peaceful with non-communist countries. In theory, this would allow communist and non-communist countries to trade, communicate, and cooperate peacefully with each other without any conflict.
Mao Zhe Dong was not a very nice man. He fought a Civil war against Chang Ki Schek. Mao wins and Chang flees the country. revolution.
Under Mao's communistic regime, over 20 million Chinese ended up dying due to starvation because a good he went over there law was passed that outlawed growing your own food. Mao was the leader of China in 1972. In 1972, President Richard Nixon went to China for a conference with Mao to discuss relations for peace. Biggest turn around at this time. Very .
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