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#9 Pakistan and The Indo-
Pakistan War
• How the War Began
• August 5
• Ending the war with stalemate.
• Militarily unsettling
• The U.S. cut off Pakistan’s military supplies.
#8 Fidel Castro
• Fidel Castro
• Urban riots
• Led guerrilla forces and peasants
• Came into political power : July of 1959
• Tension between Castro and U.S.. Alliance
with Russia
• Trading weapons : Cuban Missile Crisis in
1962.
• Cuba’s economy
#7 The Cuban missile Crisis
and JFK
• 1959 : Fidel Castro overthrows Cuban dictator
• “Bay of Pigs”
• U.S. blocked transportation of missiles to
Cuba, Khrushchev agrees to turn back the
fleet if Kennedy would not invade China.
#6 Korean War
• The Korean War
• Division at the 38th parallel.
• Separation in government
• June 25, 1950
• Chinese “volunteer” intervened in force on
the side of north Korea.
• Astatic Defense was redrawn
• Most unfortunate for China.
#5 Chinese Communism
• Communist building strength
• 20-30 million Chinese citizens were living
under the administration of the communists.
• Peasants attracted to communism. The
middle class resentful
• Communist power grew in China, U.S. grew
anxious
• General Marshall to China
#4 The Vietnam War
• Vietnam War
• the United States and the southern-
based Republic of Vietnam
• Second of two major conflicts that
spread throughout Indochina
• United States replaced France as the
major contender against northern-
based Communists and southern
insurgents.
• Communist victory in 1975
#3 The Red Scare
• The Red Scare: A Threat
• First Red Scare - Russian Revolution
• New protections
• Worries about fascism, Nazism, and
Communism.
• Red Scare tactics
• Today’s Effects
#2 The fall of The Berlin Wall
• The Berlin Wall
• Major symbol
• Hungary opened borders to East Germans.
• Egon Krenz
• Federal Republic of Germany in 1990.
• The fall of the Berlin Wall