cold war projects
working on our group projects
key terms
massive retaliation: is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy where a state commits itself in greater force in the event of an attack. if they strike at us we'll strike back. January 12, 1954
Mutual deterrence: that nuclear weapons are intended to deter other states from attacking with their nuclear weapons
mutual destruction: We're all going to die if we use these wepons. we build wepons that if we had to use them it would kill every one.
Today we took notes on The Cold War and talked about the Cold War Project.
Communism-A political,strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the soviet union. Spread throughout the world-Europe,Asia, Africa
Democracy-people have power and freedoms
Socialism-The government owns business' (schools etc.)
Capitalism-people own their business and they all get equal pay
Causes of the cold war:We all had different political systems
-The US was a democracy, capitalism, and freedom
-USSR is based on dictatorship,Communism, and control
-Both thought their system was better and distrusted the others intentions
-Stalin despised capitalism
-Stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections at the Yalta conference
-American fear of a communist attack (Red scare) and USSR's fear of a US attack
-USSR's fear of the atomic bomb
-USSR's actions in their German zone
-USSR's goal to spread communism around the world
-This feeling of suspicion lead to mutual distrust and this did a great deal of deepen the Cold War
Post WWII/Cold War Goals for the 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
Post WWII/Cold War Goals for the USSR
-Wanted to create greater security for itself
-Lost 10 million people in WWII and Stalin's purges
-Establish defensible borders
-Encourage friendly governments on its borders
-Spread communism around the world
Yalta conference
-The establishment of the UN
-Germany to be divided into four zones
-Free elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
-Russia promised to join the war against Japan
Key Terms
-Iron Curtain Speech was Churchill talking about the eastern half of Europe was Communist and were in charge of the Iron fist. That Europe was separated with communists in the East
-Domino Theory (Effect) was the thought that if one country becomes communist then all the counties become
-Policy of Containment was the US goal to stop the spread of communism (Contain the spread of communism)
-Truman Doctrine was Truman's doctrine was so the US would help Greece and Turkey with money & military supplies
-Marshall Plan was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism (
-Brinkmanship was trying to be able to talk and act tough with threats to start a war but making sure there isn't actually a war
-Massive relation was when someone strikes you with missiles you hit them back
-Mutual Deterrence was the threat of massive retaliation meaning people were to scared to die so we didn't want to start a war
-Mutual Assured Destruction was that everyone knows that everyone will die if they use these weapons
-NATO was our alliance with western Europe that fought against the communist countries
-Warsaw pact was a military alliance for communism (all these countries that were involved in the Iron Fist)
-CIA was the central intelligence agency who found out information about other countries (during the cold war it was mainly Russia)
-KGB was the main Russia security and spy organization (spies, double agent, triple agent, etc.)
-Peaceful coexistence was the Soviet Union living with other countries peacefully
-De-Stalinization was the process of trying to stop Stalin killing people by getting rid of the propaganda and death
-Detente was the easing of tension between the countries
-Perestroika was a political movement to reform the communist countries
-Glasnost
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963 was banning all the tests for Nuclear products
-Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty 1968 was a treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Treaty) 1972 was a treaty that limited missiles and other weapons
-Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 1972 was just like it sounds the treaty to have much less missiles
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