Cold War (1945-1990)
- us vs ussr
- definintion:
- a political, stratgic and ideological struggle between the us and the soviet union
- spread throughout the world-europe, asia, africa and latin america
- discussion
- communism vs. democracy
- socialism vs capitalism
- causes of the cold war
- different politcial systems
- us is based on democracy, capitalism and freedom
- ussr is based on dicatorship, communism and control
- both thought their system was vetter and distrusted the others intentions
- stalin despised capitalism
- stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections at the yalta conference
- american fear of a communist attack (red scare) and ussr's fear of a us attack
- ussr's fear of the atomic bomb
- ussr's actions in their german zone
- ussr's goal to spread communism around the world
- this feeling of suspicion lead to mutual destrust and this did a great deal to deepen the cold war
- different politcial systems
- yalta conference
- the big three agreed to:
- the establishment of the untied nations
- germany to be divided into four zones
- free elections allowed in the states of eastern europe
- russia promised to join the war against japan
- the big three agreed to:
- post wwii/cold war goes for us
- wanted to promote open markets for us goods to present another depression
- promote democracy throughout the world, especially in asia and africa
- stop the spread of communism
- post wwii/ cold war goals for the ussr
- wanted to create greater security for itself
- lost tens of millions of people in wwii and stain's purges
- feared a strong germany
- establish defensible borders
- encourage friendly governments on it's borders
- spread communism around the world
- wanted to create greater security for itself
- berlin crisis
- in 1948, three western controlled zones of germany's were united, and grew in prosperity due to marshal aide
- the west wanted the east to rejoin, but stalin feared it would hurt soviet security
- in june 1948, stalin decided to try to gain control of west berlin which was deep inside the eastern sector
- he cut road, rail and canal links with west berlin, hoping to starve it into submission
- the west responded by airlifting in the necessary suppolies to allow west berlin to survive
- in may 1949, S.U. admitteld defeat and llifted the blockade
- stalin dies in 1953
- nikita khrushchev takes over
- talks of peaceful co existance and destalinization
- ussr launches sputnik
- space race
- ussr was the first to put a satellite/spaceship into space
- us was first to land on the moon on 1969
- ussr would also put animals into space
- conspiracies, yes. there were many of them
- fidel castro overthrows batista
- berlin wall, put up in 1961
- put up to divide berlin, germany
- east side was communistic
- west side was non communistic
- bay of pigs
- it was the us's secret attempt to overthrow castro
- jfk was president
- failed miserably
- arguably lead to cuban missile crisis
- cuban missile crisis
- ussr put missiles into cuba
- they said it was for defensive purposes so that the us wouldn't invade communistic cuba
- most intense time of the cold war
- the united states wanted the missiles out of cuba
- the resolution: take us's secret missile out of turkey secretly in exchange for the missile in cuba
- berlin wall comes down november 9, 1989
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