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Russian History
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Bolshevik Revolution
Revolution in russia in 1917-1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks a communist party led by Lenin to power. -
Potsdam Conference
-Near Berlin
-Conference of the Allied nations and dealt with the future of Germany and the role of the Soviet Union in the war against Japan
-Three D's: democractization, denazification and demilitazartion
-Agreed on orderly and humane transfer of the German population -
Beginning of the Cold War
-Soviet Union and the U.S. in the decades after WW2
-At the end Germany was divided into 4 occupation zones with Great Britain, U.S., France, and the Soviet Union
-Civil War in Greece prompted U.S. leaders to adopt a more organized plan to stop the spread of communism -
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
-Massive transfer of essential supplies flown into Berlin, Germany during '48 and '49 by British and U.S. forces in around the clock missions
-The Allies stopped air lifting supplies into Berlin in September
-Lives of 75 British men lost their lives during the airlift and U.S. -
Vietnam War
-Decade long, causing massive destruction both in Southeast Asia and the US.
-1995 U.S. started to builed strong army
-Johnson authorized a series a=of air strikes against Morth Vietnam
-January 25 1975 the Paris Peace Accord was signed offically ending the Vietnam War. -
Berlin Wall
-Physical barrier that seperates west and east Berlin
-More than 200,000 people left Germany.
-Eventually chipped down the wall -
Cuban Missile Crisis
-Climax of Cold War between the Soviet and U.S.
-U.S. and Cuba maintained a rocky relationship since U.S. military forced Spain to surrender to Cuba
-Cuba depended on U.S. Purchase of its sugar to buy all oil
-The Soviet began the transport of nuclear ballistic missles in October 1962. -
Soviet-Afghanwar
Ended Feb. 15, 1989
-Lasted over 9 years
-December '79 - February '89 insurgent groups who recieved did from both Christian and Muslin countries fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces.
-Invasion of Afghanistan in late December
An estimate: one million civilians were killed. -
Glasnot/Perestroika
-Economy and agriculture began to fall apart in the Soviet Union
-Short age of social freedom
-Western society and allows citizens to have a slight say in government
-Glasnot= openness
it was the name for the social and political reforms to bestow more rights and freedoms upon Soviet people -
Fall of Communism/Soviet Union
-11 of its consitiuent republicans declared the creation of the common wealth independent states
-The Soviet was theoretically a valentory union of republicans
-Salin ruiled the Soviet from 1924-53
-The Russian Army defeted the forces
