Cold War crises, détente, and the end of the Soviet era

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4 The Korean War geography North Korea has lots of mountains and natural resources so its easier to industrialize South Korea has more agricultural land communism in Korea Lots of factory workers (relates to Marx theory the factory workers will take power) they could hid in the mountainous area during war mountains help guerrella warfare(guerrala warfare is like a hit and run) Invasion of the South North wanted to make the first move after lots of tension North has USSR South has USA North wanted to reunite all Koreans- everything will be communist North Korea had an advantage in the start by september 1950 North Korea had almost all South Korea John McAuthor and his forces land and North Korea went back North U.S. into NK U.S. got momentum and wanted to squash all communism U.S. got almost all of NK told people they would be home before Christmas Chinas involvement They feared the US forces they were just coming off the Chinese civil war Mao was leader and scared The US was getting close to the border China knocked the US back 5.5 The Cuban Missile Crisis: Trade restrictions: The US imposed trade restrictions on Cuba Fidel Castro took control and became allies with the Soviet Unio...