Cold War Project!
0. Post WWII/Cold War Goals for US-
- Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
- Promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa..
- Stop the spread of communism.
1. Causes of the Cold War- afraid communists were going to take over the war.
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect- Eisenhower, it was a chain because one country went into commusinsm then it would be followed by another country
, Iron Curtain Speech- It was a divide that was between the soviet controllled areas in easterm Europe and the democratic government in western Europe.
, Marshall Plan- it was a plan to recover to aid Europe, the US could give monterary support to help rebuild the European ecomy
, Truman Doctrine- Q policy set forth by Truman, in a speech in 47 stating that it would support Greese amd Turkey economicaly. Considered as the start of the cold war.
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)- Established 1938, tried to invest any reason to find communism in the country.
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-massive retaliation, mutual detterence-
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-
21. Vietnam Conflict-
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