after the communists took over, Mao wanted to industrialize China quickly into a communist economy - Great Leap Forward
agriculture cultivization meant taking farmland from farmers and giving it to other people
led to a great famine; tens of millions of people died
Mao was criticized which led him to implement the cultural revolution
Mao instituted scare tactics; neighbors reporting on one another, people getting arrested and treated terribly
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Sputnik, the first satellite in 1957 (USSR)
Race to be the first for each new achievement
first dog in space was russian, Laika
first man in space, first woman in space, space walks, space station
Man on the moon, 1969
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Communist (NK) Kim Il-Jung invaded democratic SK with the help of USSR
UN group intervened under General McArthur who was overseeing Japan
he captured Seoul back but pushed north of the 38°
China sent armies to defend NK
Eisenhower became president of USA and negotiated peace
marks a shift in cold war policy
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“The first tv war”
awful pictures of death and war on tv
people would watch the news and see all kinds of death in front of them
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