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Tuesday- Get vocab word
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Friday- finish presentations
Semester Test Questions:
Understand causes, effects, goals and major events of Cold War
Understand causes,effects and major events of Korean War
Understand causes, effects and major events of Vietnam War
Cold War Notes
democracy- people make laws
communism- government control
theory communism- people create class of society
socialism- government owns businesses???????????????
capitalism- people control business (bad because top 1% get wealth)
Iran- we lift sanctions if they allow inspectors in their countries
Iran does not have nuclear weapons
History of Soviet Union
- 5 Communist Countries
- China, North Korea, Louse, Vietnam, Cuba
- Vladimir Lenin? was going to quit and make Utopian society but that would make people crazy
Causes of Cold War
- called cold war because they never went to war
- different political opinions
- US is based on democracy, capitalism and freedom
- USSR is based on dictatorship, communism, and control
- The Red Scare- 1919
- we feared communist taking over
- Both thought their system was better and distrusted the others intentions
- Stalin despised capitalism - people would rather have freedom than equality
- Stalin breaking promise to allow free elections at Yalta Conference
- American fear of a communist attack (Red Scare) and USSR fear of a US attack
- USSR fear of atomic bomb
- USSR actions in their German zone
- USSR goal to spread communism around world
- led to feeling of suspicion and mutual distrust
- East- communist, SU, EU-eastern Europe West- democratic, US, WE- western Europe
Post WWII/Cold War Goals for US
- stop communism
- promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa
- wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
Post Goals for USSR
- create greater security for itself
- lost millions of people in WWII and Stalin's purges
- Establish defensible Germany
- Encourage friendly governments on its borders
- Spread communism around the world
Iron Curtain Speech
- figurative speech by Winston Churchill
- split east europe from west
Domino Theory
- If communists control on nation the rest of the world will soon follow
Policy of Containment
- policy issued to prevent spread of communism
Truman Doctrine
- effort to stop communism
- aimed at Greece and turkey- give them money to help fight communism
- help countries both military and economic if threatened by communism
The Marshall Plan (Containment Policy- Marshall Plan, Truman doctrine)
- After world war 2 US helped rebuild and gave European countries economic support
Brinkmanship
- pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster without going into war
- during cold war
- talk tough in hopes others will back down
Mutual Assured Destruction
- using strong weapons to create an explosion to destroy opposing sides
Massive Retaliation/Mutual Deterrence
- fight back with bombs
NATO
- military alliance between 28 nations to stop communism with western Europe
- US, GB, Italy, France, Canada
- still around today
- designed to fight against Warsaw pact
Warsaw Pact
- alliance between SU and Eastern European countries to counterbalance the alliance called NATO
- not around today
CIA
- spying on other countries gathering information
- still around today
KGB
- Like the CIA/FBI of the Soviet Union
- not around anymore
Peaceful Coexistence
- capitalism and communism don't work together but can live next to each other
- capitalistic and communistic countries don't interfere with each others affairs
De-Stalinization
- Eliminated memorials and tributes to Stalin
- Khrushchev would institute this
Detent
- A french word meaning release from tension usually in political situations
- easing of tensions in US ????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Perestroika
- The fixing or stabilizing economic and political systems
- Gorbachev
Glasnost
- openness
- giving more people a say in things
- be more open about things in the government
First 5 countries to have nuclear weapons
- US, France, Russia, China, GB,
- Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Iran
- Iran wouldn't lift deal until sanctions are lifted
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
- goals
- prevent spread of nuclear weapons and technology
- promote cooperation in peaceful use of nuclear energy
- further achieve goal of disarm nuclear weapons
- Treaty signed by major nuclear powers that had them agree to stop spread of nuclear technology
- countries signed to not use nuclear weapons but could use them for energy
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- The banning of all nuclear practices in US, SU, UK
- ban of nuclear weapons everywhere by everyone?
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
- agreement between US and SU to stop trying to develop missiles for nuclear weapon transportation
Anti-ballistic missile
- kind of like detente
- could detect nuclear missiles and attack them before they hit us
- we dropped out
Missile Defense System
- Missile defense system is a system of an anti missile country that destroys warhead in space before it reaches country target
- put in place to prevent nuclear bombs landing in a country
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)- 1957
- goes into countries to inspect if they are making nuclear weapons and following the rules
INF Treaty - 1987
- Eliminated nuclear and continental ground-launched.........
- designed to reduce nuclear missiles
Start Treaties
- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
- resulted in about 80% of all strategic nuclear weapons in existence
- expired in 2009
SORT
- Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty
- Between US and Russia
- nuclear weapons cut in half by 2012
New START -2011
- Obama and Medvedev
- Number of strategic nuclear missile launchers will be reduced by half
- Lasts until 2021
United Nations
- world wide peace keeping organization
- can also wage war against countries that are being aggressive
- US joined this instead of League of Nations
- military force and US signed it - why its better than League of Nations
Cold War
- Political, strategic and ideological struggle between US and SU from 1945-1990
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