1. Top Ten of the cold war

2. #10. Pan Africanism
Pan-Africanism became a broad-based mass movement in Africa
Nkrumah dominated this period in the history of Pan-Africanism dreaming that a Pan African union could be established to unite all of the new countries of the continent in a broader community.
The Cold War shaped the struggle for African Unity and Pan Africanism began with African intellectuals during the first half of the twentieth century.
3. #9 Pakistan and The Indo-Pakistan War
This war began due to Pakistans belief that the defeat of India by China in 1962 meant that the Indian military would be unable to defend against a hasty military campaign in Kashmir. Also,because the Pakistani government was becoming increasingly alarmed by Indian efforts to integrate Kashmir within India.
On August 5, Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control. Indian forces, discovering this , crossed the cease fire line on August 15.
By Sept 22 both sides had agreed to a UN mandated cease-fire ending the war that had by that point reached a stalemate.
Overall, the war was militarily unsettled; each side held prisoners and some territory belonging to the other.
The U.S., instead of aiding Pakistan under the terms of the Agreement of Cooperation, took neutrality and cut off military supplies.(They believed it to be largely Pakistans fault)
4. #8 Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was born August 13, 1926 in Cuba
Castro participated in a number of urban riots including the April riot in 1948.
He led guerrilla forces and radically active peasants in a fight against Batistas rapidly decaying army. Castro then came into power and in July of 1959, he took complete political control of the island nation
Due to Castros totalitarian regime there was a strained relationship with him and the U.S. He did however find a new ally with Russia.
Castro trading weapons with his new ally led to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Cubas economy, however, failed to grow beyond its dependency on sugar cane and depended heavily on favorable trade with the Soviets. Therefore, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Castro had to counter the loss of economic assistance by allowing more economic freedoms.
5. #7 The Cuban missile Crisis and JFK
In 1959 the left wing revolutionary Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and createda totalitarian governmentand allied with USSR.
After the Bay of Pigs failed the soviet union decided to place nuclear missiles in Cuba.
When the U.S. blocked the transportation of missiles to Cuba, Khrushchevagreed to turn back the fleet if Kennedy would not invade China.
6. #6 Korean War
The Korean War brought the beginnings of the Cold War into East Asia.
On the eve of Japanese surrender in August 1945, the Soviet Union U.S. divided Korea into two separate occupational zones at the 38th parallel.
They originally planned on holding elections, but two separate governments developed in Korea: A communist one in the north, and a anti-communist government in the south.
On June 25, 1950 with the stamp of approval from Stalin, North Korean troops invaded the south. President Truman immediately jumped into support south Korea.
In November, Chinese volunteer intervened inforce on the side of north Korea, much to the dismay of America.
Astatic Defense line was eventually redrawn near the original dividing line at the 38th parallel.
The Korean War was most unfortunate for China. The invasion only hardened the relationship between China and the major capitalist western powers.
7. #5 Chinese Communism
While Chaing Kai-Shek struggled with Japanese aggression and problems with national development, the communists were building their strength in northern China.
By the end of WWII 20-30 million Chinese citizens were living under the administration of the communists.
Millions of peasants were attracted to communism by promises of land and social justice. The middle class Chinese, more resentful to communism, were alienated by Chaings brutal suppression ofall disagreements.
Communist power grew rapidly throughout China, butthe Truman administration reacted to it with anxiety. In December 1945, President Truman sent General Marshall to China in a last effort to have a peaceful settlement, China resisted US efforts.
8. #4 The Vietnam War
In the Vietnam War which lasted from the 1954 until 1975 the United States and the southern-based Republic of Vietnam (RVN) opposed the southern-based revolutionary movement known as the Viet Cong and its sponsor, the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (the DRV, or North Vietnam). The war was the second of two major conflicts that spread throughout Indochina, with Vietnam as its focal point (see Vietnam). The First Indochina War was a struggle between Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime aided by the United States.
In the second war, the United States replaced France as the major contender against northern-based Communists and southern insurgents. Communist victory in 1975 had profound ramifications for the United States; it was not only a setback to the containment of communism in Asia but a shock to American self-confidence.
9. #3 The Red Scare

The Red Scare was known as the threat of Communism spreading across the globe.

10. The origins of the first Red scare lay in the Russian Revolution and the dreadfulexperiences of World War I. 11. Congress responded by putting new protections in the Immigration Act of 1918. Also, the Justice Department acted in November 1919 and January 1920 by launching massive raids. Over ten thousand were jailed and interrogated with little regard for their right to due process. 12. World War II produced new worries about fascism, Nazism, and Communism. 13. There was also, a large display of Red Scare tactics: the Communist witch-hunts of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who brought unfounded accusations of Communist penetration 14. Today, the legacy of the Red scares to U.S. law can be measured in several ways: a greater interest in civil liberties, a decline ofinterrogating private citizens, and a 1990 reform of immigration law that removed anarchism and Communism as grounds for deportation.