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Berlin Wall wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West.
Chinese Civil War war between communist Mao Zedong and nationalist Chaing Kai Shek/communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan
Mao Zedong Communist leader of China who led a revolution to defeat Nationalist Leader Chiang Kai Shek/ became leader of the People's Republic of China
Chiang Kai Shek General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925/ succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang and became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong/ ultimately failed and fled to Taiwan
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba/ closest time ever to war between the US and USSR/ Kennedy vs. Khrushchev
Arms Race Cold War competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons
Satellite Nations Communist nations in Eastern Europe under the USSR's control
