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Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill delivers the speech in the United States. He is concerned about Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain is the division between capitalist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. He wanted America to take a bigger role in Soviet aggression -
Korean War
The Korean War was between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states in 1948. The Cold war was an important cause in the Korean War. Relations between the two occupying powers were bad and when China became communist in October 1949. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 14,1962 it brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster between the United States and the Soviet Union. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Premier Nikitia Krushchetv and Cuban Leader Fidal Castro. Nikitia and John in Vienna. The Cuban was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. In early 1968 conservative leader Antonin Novotny was ousted as the head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia leader -
Cultural Revolution
China communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the cultural revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. In 1960 Chinese communist party leader Mao Zedong came to feel that the current party leadership in China, as in soviet union, was moving too far in a revisionist direction, with an emphasis on expertise rather than on ideological purity.