COLD WAR MAP 

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the Russian dictator, the ruled the USSR since 1925 to 1953. He was born in Gori, Georgia and he lived there all his life, then as he only spoke Georgian, he went to Moscow apparently to studying theology but he fund in Moscow the Marxist-Lenin ideas he was looking for. Then he met Lenin and they both were in the Russian Socialist Party founded the first newspaper. In 1924 Lenin died and he ruled until his death in 1953, in those times, he ruled during the agricultural collectivization and World War II, also he began the Cold War. 

Berlin History

Berlin, the German capital, it all began when the Soviet entered Germany and conquered the city, then it was divided for the UUSR and the occidental countries; because a side was socialist and another occidental, the socialist would escape to the occidental, so the Berlin Wall was built.

It separated west from East Berlin, and from its construction from August 13^th 1961 to the day the East Berlin leaved them to cross on November 9^th 1989 they were separated. The finally reunification of both Germany’s was in 1990. 

Mao Tse - Tung 

He was born on Dec. 26, 1893

Mao Tse-tung founded the People's Republic of China in 1949

He had also been one of the founders of the Chinese Communist party in 1921, and he is regarded, along with Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin, as one of the three great theorists of Marxian communism.

When the Japanese invasion of 1937 forced the CCP and the Kuomintang once again to form a united front, the Communists gained legitimacy as defenders of the Chinese homeland, and Mao rose in stature as a national leader.

Toward the end of his life, Mao put forward a new analysis of the international situation in which the world's states are divided into three groups: the underdeveloped nations, the developed nations, and the two superpower.

He stressed the importance of land redistribution for the benefit of the rural peasantry, and his theories have strongly influenced the no industrialized Third World.

Korean War

The Korean War is a military stage was North Korea (communist) invaded south. Everything start June 25, 1950, the original border was crossed and invaded south, the EEUU as preventing to have an entire communist Korea help South Korea to take the north one’s out of the south.

The union of Socialist Sovietic republics as well of the people’s republic of china (both communist) helped north Korea, the war ended July 27, 1953 when the 38^th parallel was design as a natural border until now both Korea’s have issues but they are in peace, it is considered as a civil war between Koreas, but it was a military stage in cold war. 

 

Cuban Missile Crisis 

 

It was a confrontation were the Soviet Union with the help of the communist republic of Cuba decided to place nuclear devices aiming the stage of Florida the US noticed and demanded to get them removal, this is known as the point where the cold war almost became nuclear. 

The EEUU society was panicked to socialism and Cuba a Latin American neightbor with his president “Fidel Castro” had became communist they feared and expansion to México and the US.

President JF Kennedy starts the operation “MOONGOOS” and the operation of the against the socialist republic of Cuba as:

·       Economical Embargo until today

·       The kidnapping of Cuban innocent persons to Guantanamo Naval Base

The air force plans a bombing to Cuba and the started a military movement in Guantanamo. As Cuba found out about the invasion it was communicated to the Kremlin and Khrushchev feeling the invasion imminent and as Russia could not avoid losing Cuba they removed the missiles. 

Kim II sung 

Born April 15, 1912. He lived during the Japanese invasion when Kim was 20 he went to China to fight the revolution, in communist China he started to read Marx and Hegel, then the Koreas division came and he fought during the Korean division, he roll in Cold War began where he led North Korea from it founding in 1948 to his dead in 1994.

His birthday is a public holiday in Korea and he is known as the great leader from North Korea, today his son rules North Korea.