 Korean War
 What reasons did the War start?
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The underlying reason that the
Korean War broke out was because it was just another episode in the on going Cold
War between the USA and the
USSR. On the surface, the
Korean War seemed to be a war between South Korea and North
Korea, but really the superpowers were just using it as a front to combat each other without actually going into a
‘hot war’ which – as both had the atomic bomb – would have been MAD (mutually assured destruction).
 Was it actually a war?
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The war was more of a conventional war, in which
Korean was trying to divide itself into two different countries being today North Korean and
South Korean.
 What counties were involved?
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There were two groups involved during this war South and North

Korean. On the North Korean side were the; Democratic
People's Republic of Korea,
People's Republic of China, and
The Soviet Union.
On the South Korean were the;
Republic of Korea,
Australia,Belgium, Canada,
Colombia, Ethiopia, France,
Greece, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, New Zealand,
Philippines, South Africa,
Thailand, Turkey, United
Kingdom. and United States.
However the main countries were the United States, North
Korea, South Korea, and The
Soviet Union china
 What was the outcome of the
War?
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The two Koreans wound up being divided, almost, along the same line, the 38th parallel, as they were after WWII
 What was NATO's role in the war?
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The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization or NATO also called the (North) Atlantic
Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North
Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels,

Belgium,and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
 Who were the historical personalities involved and their roles?

MacArthur was removed from command by President Harry S
Truman.
 Vietnam War
 What reasons did the War start?
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The Vietnam war started because American president
Eissen hower did not want communism to spread throughout the world and eventually to America.
 Was it actually a war?
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The Vietnam War was not technically a war because
Congress did not officially declare war. However, it was perceived by the rest of the world as a war and as a consequence America lost much of its political pull. For the grunts in the field it was a war.

 What countries were involved?

The major countries involved in the Vietnam War include Japan,
France, and the US.
 What was the outcome of the
War?

There wasn’t a winner in the
Vietnam war, after loosing so many soldiers with each side not showing a sign of backing down the countries went down.
 What was NATO's role in the war?

 Who were the historical personalities involved and their roles?

President Kennedy sent a team to Vietnam to report on conditions in the South and to assess future American aid requirements

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
Why did the United States feel they needed to invade?
Who did they get to invade?
 What counties were involved?
 What was the outcome of the invasion?
 What was NATO's role.?
 Who were the historical personalities involved and their roles?
 The wanted to prevent communism from reaching the U.S.
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They used B-26 planes disguised as Cuban planes to bomb their airfields.
 America and Cuba.
 The outcome of the invasion came out to be unsuccessful.
NATO’s supplied the U.S.
 with firearms and food.
Fidel Castro, he was the commander-in-chief of
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Cuban armed forces.

Cuban Missile Crisis
 How were the missiles discovered?
 Why were the missiles sent to
Cuba?
 What counties were involved?
 Describe what the outcome was.
 What was NATO's role?
 Who were the historical personalities involved and their
 According to Nikita
Khrushchev's memoirs, in
May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba as a means of countering an emerging lead of the
United States in developing and deploying strategic missiles.
 United States had some missiles in Turkey so Cuba wanted to be safe and started making some as well. That way if they ever got attacked they’d be ready to hit back.
 The United States and

Cuba were involved.
NATO's role was minimal.
There was a diplomatic trade with the Russians; in

 exchange for removing the
Cuban missiles the U.S. did not deploy Pershing missiles to Turkey. The missile contingent would have been a NATO asset
At the time that U.S. military forces worldwide go to DEFCON 3 and encourage all NATO forces to do the same. Supreme
NATO Commander
Norstad, however, refuses to do so. General Norstad was scheduled to relinquish his NATO command on Nov. 1, 1962, but the Cuban missile crisis that October prompted
NATO to ask him to stay in the post until early in
1963. As the crisis deepened, the U.S. went to
DEFCON 2 for the first time in history. On October
28, 1962, the United States sends instructions to its
NATO allies that military actions to attack Cuba are imminent. At the height of nuclear brinkmanship between the U.S. and the
U.S.S.R., Kennedy agrees to dedicate part of his nuclear arsenal to NATO.
Khrushchev the same day broadcasts on Radio
Moscow, effectively ends
 the missile crisis

 Berlin Wall
 What reasons was the Berlin
Wall built?

 What impact did it have on
Germany and its people?
 What counties were involved?
 Why was it considered a symbol of the Cold War?
 What was NATO's role in the war?
 Who were the historical personalities involved and their roles?
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-There are two major reasons for the building the wall.One of them would be economics. To many well-educated people moved from East Berlin (its cheaper there),so DDR lost money on this.Another reason would be for political reasons.The east side of Russia did not like to interfere with the west side of Russia.Education was free in the east,but had cost money in the west.
-The impact of the Berlin Wall was threefold. First, it separated families. There were many

families who lived in different districts in Berlin. If Jurgen and
Änne lived in Teltow and
Friedrich and Maria lived in
Wilmersdorf before World War
II, and Jurgen and Maria were brother and sister, after the
Wall went up they couldn't see each other any more.Second, it enabled a Soviet occupation on the eastern side of the Wall.
-The Soviet Union and the East
German governments were concerned that their people, including many of their most skilled workers, were moving to
West Germany for the better job opportunities and greater political freedoms available there.Working together, they designed and constructed the
Berlin Wall, and equivalent obstacles along the length of the border between East and West
Germany.The allies, including the United States, Great Britain, and France, each of whom controlled part of Germany and
Berlin after the war, could only watch what was happening, since the wall was being constructed on the side of the border controlled by the
Communists.
 -The Berlin wall that separated
West Germany form East
Germany symbolized the Iron
Curtain, as Churchill described,

 that was created between the communists in East Europe and those opposing communism in
West Europe. To both Germans in the East and the West the wall represented the sovereignty over their country.
To the West-Berliners the Berlin
Wall symbolized the Soviet's obsessive need for control and for the East-Berliners it was a barrier they could no longer cross to work in the higherpaying and better livingstanders west.

- Why did the Airlift have to take place?
The Berlin
Airlift occurred after World
War 2. When Germany surrendered, the four major countries of the Allies were placed in charge as occupation forces. The four countries were USA, Britain,
France and Russia. The country was divided up into sectors and placed under the control of each country and the capitol city of Berlin was also divided.
- What impact did it have on the people of
Germany and Eastern
Europe?
The Berlin Airlift did more than anything else to encourage pro-Western.

The vast majority of
Germans expected the West to do some kind of deal with
Stalin and were most impressed by the Western response.
- What counties were involved?
The Soviet
Union and the East German governments were concerned that their people, including many of their most skilled workers, were moving to West Germany for the better job opportunities and greater political freedoms available there.
- Why was it considered a symbol of the Cold
War?
The Berlin wall that separated West Germany form East Germany symbolized the Iron Curtain, as Churchill described, that was created between the communists in East Europe and those opposing communism in West
Europe. To both Germans in the East and the West the wall represented the sovereignty over their country.
What was NATO's role in the war?
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization was created in April 1949.
The pact operated on the basis of collective

security. If any one of the member states were attacked, all would retaliate together. The original NATO included
Britain, France, Italy, the
Netherlands, Belgium,
Canada, Iceland,
Luxembourg, Denmark,
Norway, Portugal, and the United States.
- Who were the historical personalities involved and their roles?
President Ronald Reagan,
President J.F.Kennedy,
Nititka Kruschev, and
Mikhail Gorbachev. Plus
President Trumen.
 Space Race/Arms Race
 Explain the growth of atomic weapons between the two superpowers?United states dropped atomic bomb to make japan surrender.
 Who were the two super powers during the Cold
War?
 The two superpowers were the
Chinese & the Russian.
 Why was the launch of Sputnik so historically significant toward the space race?because it took a big part in the wold


war 2.
 List the achievements (firsts) of the Superpowers involved in
the Space Race.
 the achievements of the superpowers involved in the space race were the fact that we got to launch the sputnik.
 What were the outcomes of the
Space race and Arms race between the two Cold War superpowers?It was different
cause

Russia beats us to the moon but
Americans were the first to put a man in there.President
Eisenhower increase math and science programs in America and also created a little thing called NASA in the 50s
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