HIST 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nato, Chiang Kai-Shek, Erich Honecker
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Berlin airlift: this was initiated to get supplies from west germany to west berlin through airlift. Berlin wall: khrushchev initiated the berlin wall in the city in august 1961. Many in east berlin would go to west berlin to leave the area of ussr control, and ussr used this wall to stop this. Nato: north atlantic treaty organization, this was created to ally the non communist states in military power. This was prompted when czechoslovakia was taken over by ussr. France, belgium, netherlands, luxembourg, italy, portugal, denmark, iceland, norway, canada, Members of this alliance agreed that an attack on one was an attack on all. Warsaw pact: created shortly after nato, was a military alliance of the communist states. Race: competition to strengthen armed forces and weapons systems. Sputnik: the successful soviet satellite, prompted competition from the usa. Nationalist china: jiang jieshi had been forced off mainland china and now took his nationalist troops from taiwan/formosa.
