Activities 10 and 13

By JaimeAP

  • Chinese Revolution

  • Foundation of the United Nations

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    Chinese Civil War

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    First moments of tension between USA and USSR, the Space Race

    In 1947, US President Harry S. Truman made a speech about the need to support the regimes that were fighting against communism.

  • The Berlin blockade began

  • The UN approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • First Berlin Crisis

  • Division of Germany

  • NATO established

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    The Korean War

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    USSR crisis

  • Stalin´s death

  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

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    The Vietnam War

  • Warsaw Pact

    Was signed by the USSR and all the communist countries in Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia.

  • Turkey joins the NATO

  • Poland joins the Warsaw Pact

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    Differences in communism in Eastern Europe

  • US President Eisenhower threatened massive retaliation

  • Great Leap Forward

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • The red telephone

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    Mao Cultural Revolution

  • US defeat in Vietnam

  • Mao´s death

  • Spain joins the NATO

  • Suppression of student protest in Tiananmen Square

  • Perestroika, the USSR dissolution and the end of the Cold War