Communism & the Cold War

Katie Edson, P1
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Cuban Independence Collapse of Qing Empire

World War I

Five Year Plans (1)

Vietnamese Independence
Great Leap Forward

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Five Year Plan (2)

Mao Zedong World War II

Collapse of Russia Empire

Vladimir Lenin

NATO

Cuban Missile Crisis

US war in Vietnam Warsaw Pact

Thich Quang Duc self-immolation 1968 Uprisings

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Cuban Independence
1902 Cuba gained independence from Spain after the Spanish-American War

Collapse of Qing Empire

1912 The Qing Empire/Dynasty of China collapsed in 1912

World War I
1914 - 1918

World War I (WWI) was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918

Collapse of Russia Empire

1917 The Russian Empire collapsed during the February Revolution of 1917

Vladimir Lenin
1922 - 1924 Lenin was a Russian communist who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924

Five Year Plans (1)

1929 - 1933 The first set of economic plans created by the Soviet Union, finished one year early.

World War II
1939 - 1945 A global war involving the vast majority of the worlds nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

Mao Zedong
1943 - 1969 Chinese communist, revolutionary, political theorist, and founder of the Peoples Republic of China.

NATO
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organizationconstitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

Vietnamese Independence
1954

Vietnam gained independence from France and was divided into North and South Vietnam

US war in Vietnam
1955 - 1975 Fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries.

Warsaw Pact
1955 - 1991 A mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold WarBulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, and Albania.

Great Leap Forward

1958 - 1961 An economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Mao Zedong, reflected in planning decisions, which aimed to use Chinas vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of rapid industrialization and collectivization.

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 The Soviet Union sent missiles to Cuba in order to protect them in case of attack by the US. The US discovered these missiles, but rather than fight, they made an agreement to not invade Cuba if the Soviet Union removed the missiles.

Thich Quang Duc self-immolation

1963 Vietnamese monks lit themselves on fire in protest of the government

1968 Uprisings
1968 A worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominantly characterized by popular rebellions against military, capitalist, and bureaucratic elites, who retorted with an escalation of political repression.

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

1991 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration 142-H of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declaration acknowledged the independence of the twelve republics of the Soviet Union that subsequently created the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Five Year Plan (2)

1991 - 1995 The second of the Soviet Unions Five Year Plans, originally supposed to end in 1995 but was not finished due to the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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