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The events that proceed Korea (1950) that actually cause East (GDR) and West Germany (FGR) to be separate countries...

What happens to Berlin after WWII?

• Berlin was split into 4 zones like the rest of the country. It was split because the big 4 didn't believe it was right for the capital of the country to be under control of one country
• The Berlin Airlift
• Stalin tried to starve his part of Berlin and blockaded them, America swooped in and successfully dropped food and supplies to the people
• After this, Bonn (in Western Germany) had become the capital. This caused an issue in the 90s when Germany was reunited because they didn't know which city to make the capital. They chose Berlin
• NATO was created after the airlift in 1949

• The Berlin wall was built in the 1960s to prevent people from escaping and Reagan had it taken down.
• too many people were leaving Berlin and escaping to the west

The Leaders of Russia 

• (Lenin was before) Stalin- he was extreme, and ruled during the time of WWII and the 5 year plan
• Kruschev focused on destalinization, ruled during the Kennedy years, and blinked during cuban missile crisis, staring contest he’s the one that backed out and the missile weren’t fired
• in return to this the US took the missiles out of Turkey
• he lost his position after these events
• Gorbachev was the last Soviet premier and ruled the same time as Reagan. 
• Gorbachev was the man Reagan addressed when he said tear down the wall in 1985
• Brezhnev- the leader when communism started to die, it started to fall because it can't economically keep up with the West.

Korean War

• The Korean war was approved by the UN because the USSR was boycotting the security council

Suez canal 1950s

• Nassar said he would nationalize the canal and would try to get the best deal to build the Aswan dam from the US or Soviets, no one helped him so he wanted to nationalize the canal to make money

Budapest and Prague are the same part of the Cold War

• They want to break away from Soviet dominance over eastern Europe. They tried to break free and become democratic but the Soviets crushed it and they failed.

Tito is rude to Stalin

• Josip Bros (Tito) is a communist and doesn't get along with the other communists. He is from Yugoslavia which is an independent communist country.

The Czech revolt and Budapest are similar

• They both try to break from Stalin's control