The H bomb

• Who: U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, and China.
• Where: the five countries.
• nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes.
• the light elements are made heavier.
• these countries formed the nuclear club.
• many layers of the bomb
•  many countries claimed the capability of being able to create he h bomb but never did.
• only 2 nuclear weapons have been used in war, both by the US.
• many have been detonated for testing purposes.
• there is an estamate of more than 20,500 bombs in the world now.

sources: infoplease.com

Korean war

• who: north and south Korea.
• where: Korea.
• cold war went hot.
• heavy naval and military involvement by the US.
• north Korea had a fast moving army.
• north Korea was close to victory but China intervened. 
• communists VS non-communists.
• US helped south Korea.
• Soviet union helped north Korea.
• north Korea advanced rapidly.

sources: www.history.navy.mil , www.infoplease.com

Sputnik

• who: soviet union.
•  where: soviet union.
•  size of a beach ball.
• 98 minutes to orbit earth.
• the start of the space race.
• america's rival in the cold war seemed more technologically advanced.
• it was shinny so it could be spotted by a telescope. 
• it went 18,000 miles an hour.
• spent 3 months in orbit.

sourses: history.nasa.gov ,airandspace.si.edu

Warsaw Pact

• Who:  Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
• Where: Warsaw, Poland.
• "Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance."
• military treaty.
• response to NATO.
• 1,714,000 ground forces.
• it was demonized in the west.
• 85 divisions.
• 190 submarines.
• NATO had a lot more of everything compared to the Warsaw pact.

sources: warsawlife.com , historylearningsite.co.uk 

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Great Leap Forward

• Started by Mao.
• Located in China.
• Mao considered China to be capable of anything.
• It was a plan to develop industry and agriculture.
• Mao announced a 5 year plan for 1958 through 1963.
• Mao believed that agriculture could not grow without the growth of industry and the other way around.
• China was turned into a series of communes.
• Each commune had about 5000 families.
• Everyone shared ownership of tools and animals.
• In 1959 everything became inefficient and everything went wrong

Sourses: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/
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