April 19th

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

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

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
Mcarthy
- accused Dean Acheson- Secretary of State and he knew 205 communists in the state department, was accused of being a communitst
Mcarthy downfall
- republican withdrawl
- hurting presidential administration
- eisenhower refrains
- no stooping
- mathews
- protestant churches
- public rage
- June 9th, 1954- accused the us army of being communists

Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-

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Senator Joe McCarthy
McCarthyism- a group of people who accuse someone of being something they are not

Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-

Berlin Blockade
- Lasted from June 24, 1948-May 12, 1949
- Main goal was to get the Soviet Union out of Berlin
Soviet Union in Berlin
- Had control of west Berlin
- Wanted toe western allies to let them supply Berlin with food and other supplies
- wanted to have control over all of Berlin
- Blocked off all railroads and airports in east Berlin
Allies in Berlin
- had control of North, South, and West
- north was france
- west was Great Britian
- South was US
- they were called the blockade powers

China becoming communist-Mao-

NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-massive retaliation, mutual detterence

Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-

Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-

The Cuban Missile Crisis-

The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-

Nixon's visit to China-

1970's Peace Attempts-Detente, Salt I, Salt II-

Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-

Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-

Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-perestroika and glasnost, INF Treaty-

The fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War-explain how it all went down-

The new map of Europe(up to present)-

Why the US won the Cold War-

Korean Conflict-

Vietnam Conflict-

Post WWII/Cold War Goals for US

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

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