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. 

Ho Chi Minh

 

His role in the cold war started as he was the ruler of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, born May 19, 1890’s in a village, he started the first rebellion to the French Indochina, as Vietnam was a French colony Chi Minh defeated the French Union, he started with communist ideas and Vietnam was dividing in two.  

His role Vietnam during the frist years of the war today the “South Capital” its call Ho Chi Minh City. 

Domino Theory 

The domino effect, if you push one domino piece a line every piece will fall, the same act that pass the Asian countries, in 1910’s China started a revolution where the communist lead the great giant had fall.

His neightbor Korea fall, then Vietnam and the USSR predicted that Asian countries will fall but the EEUU intervenes stopped the fall of the “countries”.  

 

  Armenz, Armas and the CIA 

The Latin American Country of Guatemala held the elections in 1953, Jacobo Arbenz was the ELECTED president, he was a socialist ideas and the Kremlin already saw a potential base just a country away from EEUU also the Kremlin saw an expansion to Mexico.

As the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) noticed the presented a plan to the White house, where a coupe d’état from the Coronel Carlos Castillo Armas could be supported by the CIA so Arbenz would be out of power and Guatemala could return to Capitalism.

Arbenz started to privatize US enter price and in June 18, 1950 the CIA planed “a liberation army” of 400 revels to defeated Arbenz trained by the CIA.

The CIA started operation PB HISTORY to prove Armenz a communist puppet from the Kremlin. 

 

Pinochet, Allende and Nixon 

 

Salvador Allende was elected Chilean president in 1970, and economic crisis started and Chile enter in a socialist phase, the US so an imminent socialist base in Chile, so president Nixon offer   Pinochet an economic and military support to Pinochet in September 11, 1973 Pinochet with the help of the Navy and the Army toke control of the entry country in 3 hours, except Santiago.

The presidential place was bombed, Allende was dead and Pinochet will rule Chile in a military government until his dead. 

Iran / Contra Affair 

 

November 1986, Reagan was the President of EEUU and Hezbollah had taken hostages in Iran, the EEUU wanted to improve relation with Iran so they decide to pay the rescue but Israel sold weapons to the Iranian group as the Nicaraguan contras.

The plan deteriorated as there were modifications as the money went to fund the Contras in 1987 Reagan accepted everything but he told then he was in aware of some mistakes as the destruction of the Iranian Us relation, it ended with the presidency of George H. W. Bush. 

Osama Bin Laden 

He isn’t famous for his role in the cold war, more of the terrorist attacks of September 11. His role in the cold war starts with the Soviet Invasion to Afghanistan where the CIA trained him to fight the Russian for the liberation of his country.

He is the former of the Terrorist Al Qaeda and him born in the capital of South Arabia March 10, 1957.