Cold War Projects today!
A political, strategic, and ideological struggle between US and Soviet Union
Topics:
*1. Causes of the Cold War:
- The two countries had different
- beliefs
- political systems
*US is based on democracy, capitalism, and freedom.
*USSR is based on dictatorship, communism, and control. - Both countries thought their system was better of the two and distrusted the others intentions.
- Stalin despised capitalism
- What drives capitalist?
*Greed.
*Thought Great Britain and US would go to war and destroy eachother. - Stalin broke promise to allow free elections at Yalta Conference.
- American fear of a communist attack (Red Scare) and USSR fear of US attack.
- USSR fear of atomic bomb
- USSR actions in their German zone
- USSR goal to spread communism around the world
- Feeling of suspiction lead to mutual distrust and did a great deal to deepen the war
- US Goals
- wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent depression
- promote democracy around the world
- stop spread of communism - Goals for USSR
- wanted to create greater security
*lost tens of millions of people to WWII and Stalin's purges
*feared a strong Germany
- Established defensive borders
- Encourage friendly governments on its borders
- Spread communism around the world
*2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
- Policy of Containment:
- prevent spread of communism - Domino Effect:
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- - Iron Curtain Speech:
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- - Marshall Plan:
- America gave Europe 17$ billion to stop communism
- Financial Aid to European countries
- money was used to rebuild countries destroyed by war
- Plan was to get Europe stregnth back and stop communism - Truman Doctrine:
- March 12. 1947
- Didnt try to destroy the USSR
- Mainly wanted to stop USSR fromgrowing
- Truman stated he would give economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent from falling into USSR
*3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
*4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
- College from 1930 - 1935 for engineering then for law
- 1942, went into Marine Corps
- Became second lieutenant after basic
- won place in senate against Howard mcMurray in 1946
- first 3 years of senate were uneventful
- Feb 9th, 1950, gave speech saying thathe had paper with names of communist that worked for state department
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
*7. NATO: de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-massive retaliation, mutual detterence
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization:
- Signing of North Atlantic Treaty
- Political Alliance
- "Keep the Russians out, Americans in, and Germans down." - Lor Ismay
- Then: Anti-Communist
Now: Protect the other member countries of NATO - Warsaw Pact:
- Opposite of Nato
- Only formed to contridict NATO
- Tries to stop NATO
- No longer living - De-Stalinization:
- March 1953, Stalin dies
- forced labor stopped
- Improved Prision Condition
- Anything bearing Stalin's name was renamed - Oct. 31st, 1961, Stalin's body moved.
- Nov. 11th, 1961, Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd
- Mutual Deterence/Massive Retaliation:
- One in the same
- If attacked USSR or USA would respond with massive retaliation
*8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
11. The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-
12. Nixon's visit to China-
13. 1970's Peace Attempts-Detente, Salt I, Salt II-
14. Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-
15. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-
16. Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-perestroika and glasnost, INF Treaty-
17. The fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War-explain how it all went down-
18. The new map of Europe(up to present)-
19. Why the US won the Cold War-
20. Korean Conflict--
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