Monday- Cold war notes
Tuesday- Cold war notes
Wednesday- Cold war notes
Thursday- Project work day
Friday- Project work day
Notes:
Cold War
- post WWII/Cold war goals for the US
- stop spread of communism
- policy of containment
- promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa
- wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
- stop 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 stalin's purges
- feared a strong germany
- establish defensible borders
- encourage friendly governments on its borders
- spread communism around the world
- wanted to create greater security for itself
- truman doctrine
- in 1947 the british were helping the greek government fight against communist guerrillas
- they appealed to america for aid and we responded with the truman doctrine
- greece received large amounts of arms and supplies and by 1949 had defeated the communists
- marshall plan
- in 1947, US secretary of state marshall announced the marshall plan
- this was a massive economic aid plan for europe to help it recover from the damage caused by the war
- there were 2 motives for this
- helping europe to recover economicaly would provide markets for american goods, benefiting american industry
- a prosperous europe would be better able to resist the spread of communism
- NATO
- defensive alliance of
- America
- Canada
- Britain
- France
- Holland
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Portugal
- Denmark
- Norway
- Italy
- still around today
- has expanded
- defensive alliance of
- Warsaw pact
- another defensive alliance
- (if there would be another ww, it would be nato vs warsaw pact)
- cia vs kgb
- central intelligence agency
- komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti
- committee for state security
- 1954-91
- nuclear power treaties/organizations
- nuclear test ban treaty-1963
- signed by JFK
- underground nuclear testing
- nuclear non-proliferation treaty-1968
- prevent the spread of nuclear spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology
- promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy
- further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament
- anti-balistic missle-1972 US/USSR
- limited weapons that would seek out and destroy nuclear weapons once launched
- in the 1980s, president ronald reagan announces the strategic defense intitiative
- US withdraws in 2002 under george w bush
- withdrew to missle defense system
- program designed to counter any nuclear missle attack on the US or allies
- withdrew to missle defense system
- treaties to reduce nuclear activity
- SALT I treaty US/USSR
- froze # of strategic ballisitc missle launchers at existing levels
- limited new submarine
- signed, never ratified
- comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty-1996
- signed by bill clinton
- banned underground testing
- not ratified by senate because we don't know that other countries would follow and we should be able to test if we want
- IAEA
- go into other countries and make sure other countries follow the rules of nuclear weapons
- INF treaty
- about reducing nuclear weapons
- START - strategic arms reduction treaty
- 80% of all strategic nuclear weapons were taken away
- very successful
- SORT
- addition to start
- stockpile of both depolyed and reserve nuclear weapons was to be cut in half
- succesful
- New START
- signed by obama
- the number of strategic nuclear missle launchers reduced in half
- new inspection and verification system
- United nations
- SALT I treaty US/USSR
- nuclear test ban treaty-1963
- sem test ??s
- 1st berlin crisis 1948-1949
- division of germany and berlin
- stalin was mad that he didn't get berlin
- it was in his area
- stalin surrounded
- we had 3 choices
- give up
- airlift supplies
- break through blockade
- stalin ended blockade and we made trade agreement
- 1st berlin crisis 1948-1949
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