History

• Capitalist people can criticise the government
• In capitalist countries ordinary people played for the government
• The USA and UK is capitalist
• In capitalist countries, they have freedom of speech, and encourage people to vote
• In communist countries, the government control press and TV
• Russia and North Korea communist
• There is only one political party in communism
• The arm race is a competition to make the most powerful weapon
• In 1949, the Soviet union exploded the atomic bomb on to Japan. This is when the arms race began.
• They wanted the arms race civilians was scared because they knew what the atomic bombs could do
• Khrushchev had been Stalin's right hand man
• To end the arms race, they did they coming peace meeting
• In the Berlin airlift, they brought supplies for Berlin via plane when the Russians surrounded the city and blocked off their supplies
• East Germany was communist and west germany was capitalist
• Berlin wall was built by East Germany to stop people escaping from West Germany to west Germany
• The Berlin Wall was built in 1961
• The wall was built so that people couldn't escape from east germany to west germany
• The wall was built by East Germans but it was funded by the USSR
• In the Berlin, airlift, they flew over the barricades and went in to Berlin, providing food supplies, and every day things like coal and food
• In the Berlin airlift, they could not shoot down planes as it is classified as war
• The Berlin Airlift lasted for 327 days
• The Berlin blockade, 24th of June 1948, sterling her all access to Berlin for the allies. He wanted them to be stopped in submission. They only had enough food for 36 days and the allies during the earliest sent 350 million worth of supplies
• The Berlin Blockade ended on May 12th 1949 when Stalin lifted the blockade because he realised that the West would never give up control of berlin.
• M.A.D- mutually assured destruction- if one side attacks the other, the other side will retaliate with a nuclear weapon
• In M.A.D neither of the countries would use their weapons because both countries would’ve been destroyed
• West Berlin people made good money West Berlin was good for democracy. They were wealthy modern and they had good food and leisure.
• The USA and allies poured money into West Berlin
• West Berlin woman were still expected to stay home and cook
• East Berlin people had good jobs, but they were poorly paid
• East Berlin, people had shortages of every day, goods, and government-controlled every aspect of their lives
• In East Berlin, they had plain food no fun. They were very strict and it was more than industrial area.
• If you were living in East Berlin, you could only travel to the USSR and other Russian country. You would always need to carry an ID card
• The 38th parallell is a border between North and South Korea. It is a line of latitude at 38° north of Korea.
• They meet at the joint security area to discuss they are in the state of war it is a Cold War. There is 150 mile buffer zone between both countries
• DMZ- demilitarised zone
• Domino theory- the spread of communism in World War II that they were scared if one country turns Communist the neighbours country will
• P people, Stalin was the leader of Russia Roosevelt, was the leader of America Churchill was the leader of the UK