No school on Monday
------------------------------------
forum post leaders
Semester test;
Understand the causes, effects, goals and major events of the Cold war, Korean war and Vietnam conflict.
China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos.
Causes:
- Different economic and political systems ( democracy, capitalism and freedom>< dictatorship, communism and control)
- The red scare 1919:
- Both thought their system was better
- Yalta conference: Feb 1945: Stalin later broke his promise to allow free elections
- USSR's actions in their german zone and goal to spread communism around the world
- feeling of suspicion on both sides
US' Goals during cold war:
- promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
- promote democracy
- stop the spread of communism
Soviets' goals:
- wanted to create greater security for itself ( lost million of people)
- establish strong and easily defensible borders
- spread communism
- wanted allied gov on its borders
------------------------------
Assignments:
- Domino theory: if one nation comes under communism, the nations nearby will soon be communist too. 1950
- Politic of containment: us policy to prevent the spread of communism in the world. 1947
- Truman doctrine: the USA would help countries in Europe with both military and economic aid if they were threatened by communism or the soviet union. (Greece and Turkey). 1947
- Marshall Plan: the USA helped rebuild and gave European countries economic support. 1948-1952
- Brinkmanship: the pushing of a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster without going to war. (during the whole cold war)
- Mutual assured destruction: using strong weapons to create an explosion to destroy opposite sides. 1955-60's
- Massive retaliations/ Mutual deterrence: using nuclear weapons for defensive purpose only. A country wouldn't go in war with a country that has nuclear missiles.
- NATO: North Atlantic treaty organization: 28 nations signed the treaty, trying to stop the spread of communism and secured the world against Soviet Union. april 4, 1929 (USA, GB, West germany, Canada, France, Belgium...)
- Warsaw Pact: Alliance between the soviet union and most Eastern European countries >< NATO (Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria...) May 4, 1955. dissolved in 1991
- Iron curtain speech: Winston Churchill's speech in 1946. (referring to the borders of eastern and western Europe)
- CIA: Central intelligence agency
- KGB: "the russian CIA and FBI"
- Peaceful coexistence: theory from Soviet Union. Capitalism and communism don't work together but they can't live peacefully next to each other. 1960's
- De-Stalinization: my presentation. Since 1956.
- Detente: release from tension usually in political situations.
- Perestroika: the fixing or reforming of the economic and political systems. (Gorbachev) 1980's
- Glasnost: policy of being more open to change in the gov. 1985
- countries : USA, France, Russia, China and GB. (+Israel, North Korea, India and Pakistan)
- 15000: nuclear missiles needed to blow the earth. Little boy 32 for LA and 239 419 for the USA. Tzar Bombe: 1 to blow up LA.
- Nuclear Non proliferation Treaty: nobody except the first 5 could have nuclear weapons. 1970
- Nuclear test ban treaty 1963: Banning of nuclear practices in the US, Soviet Union and United Kingdom (Atmosphere and underwater)
- Strategic arms limitation talks: treaty of 1972: negotiations between the US and the SU. stop developing missiles to carry nuclear weapons
- Anti Ballistic missile: 1972: each military could only have and use 100 missiles.
- Anti ballistic defensive system: detects missiles in the sky and destroy it before it reaches the target. 1990's-2000
-
Comments