April 18th

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1. Causes of the Cold War-
   • American's fear of communist Attack- take over world
   • Truman's dislike of Stalin
   • • American President-Harry Truman
     • Soviet Union leader- Josef Stalin
     • Stalin refused to join the league of nations
   • Russia's fear of our atomic bomb
   • • The world
     • all out nuclear war
   • Capitalism
   • • people owned their governments
   • Russia's dislike of capitalism
   • • we were succeding by using it
   • America's refusal to share nuclear secrets
   • • Secrets are part of any war
   • Russia's expansion west into Eastern Europe (broken election promises)
   • • Russia promised not to expand
   • Russia's fear of American attack
   • • Russia was afraid of bombs and army, navy, ect.
   • Russia's need for a secure western border
   • • to protect from US attacks
   • Communism
   • • People were equal in every way and they had their right taken away
     • Karl Marx thought of communism
   • Russia's aim of spreading world communism- BIG IDEA
   • • More communistic countries
     • less enemies
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine
   • Domino effect-
   • • President Eisenhower and his national security adviser introduced the domino theory during the 1950's. All countries were going to fall like dominos to communism
   • Irom Curtain Speech-
   • • Ideological and physical divide that was between the Soviet controlled ares in eastern Europe and the Democratic government in western Europe
   • Marshall Plan-
   • • An american program to aid Europe where the US could give monterary support to help rebuild the European economies in the end of WWII to prevent soviet comminusim to spread
   • Truman Doctrine-
   • • a policy set forth by Truman in a speech in 47 stating that we would support Greece and Turkey economicaly. This is often considered as the start of the cold war
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
   • 1938-1975
   • American Organization
   • Kept looking for reasons to find communism
   • Red Scare
   • • fear of communism
     • no immagrants
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-
22. 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
23. Post WWII/Cold War Goals for the USSR
    • Wanted to create greater security for itself
    • • lost tens of millions of people in WWII and Stalin's purges
      • feared a strong Germany
    • Establish defensible borders
    • Encourage friendly governments on its borders
    • Spread communism around the world