Monday-
The Cold War-
1. Definition- A political strategic and ideological struggle between the US and Soviet Union from 1945-1990
2. Spread through the world
3. The war was like a chess match
Communism-
- Mainly a dictator ship
- The government gave to the people to a point
- most people are equal
- Bolshevik revolution
- Lenin
- Stalin
- Purges
- Nationalization
- Collectivization
- 5 year plans
- Soviet-German
- War with Germany
- Battle of Berlin
Causes of Cold war
- Different political systems
- US is based on democracy
- USSR is based on dictatorship
- the two didn't mix
- The red scare
- Stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections
Tuesday-
Post WWII/Cold war goals
- Wanted to promote open markers for the US goods to prevent another depression
- Promote democracy throughout the world
- Stop the spread of communism
USSR goals
- Make great security for itself
- lost tens of millions of people in WWII
- fear of Germany
- establish defensible borders
- encourage friendly gov on bordered
- to spread communism
Wednesday- ABSENT
Thursday-
Retaliation in Cuba
Castro asked Russia to give them nukes
Friday-
Korean War-
- Called the forgotten war
- After WW2 it was split in 2.
- was not saposed to stay that way
- and then join back together
- But when the election happened it failed to rejoin
- the SU refused to partake in the election
- The rest of the war involved little territory change and lengthy peace negotiations
- Even during the peace negotiations combat continued
- There was a cease fire
Nom-
- Started to deploy advisers into Vietnamese
- Then started giving special forces
- Troops for offensive
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