Topics:
1. Causes of the Cold War- Joseph Stallon refuses to join the League of Nations. Capitalism-people own the businesses. Stallon hated capitalism. America refused to share nuclear secrets.Russia promised not to expand. Russia was afraid of our army and our bombs like the atomic bomb. Communism was found by Karl Marx. Russia wanted to spread it we wanted to stop it.
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect- President Eisenhower and his national security advisor introduced the domino effect in the 1950s when dominos fall it takes all dominos to fall like communism, Iron Curtain- to divide the Soviet controlled areas in europe. Speech-, Marshall Plan- we gave a lot of money and European recovery program to aid europe where the U.S. could support to help rebuild the european economies so they wouldn't go into a depression in the end of World War 2. Truman Doctrine- A policy set forth by Truman in a speech and it supported Greece and Turkey and we gave them money and supplies
Post WWII/Cold War Goals for the U.S.- Stop the spread of communism and stop another depression from happening when the soldiers return.
Post WWII/Cold War Goals for the USSR-Wanted to create greater security for itself. Spread communism around the world and establish defensible borders. Feared a strong germany.
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)- Established in 1938. American Org. Ended 1975. Tried to investigate and find reasons to seek communist. Involved was US and USSR. Yalta conference- Meeting with Stallon what was going to be done to Europe when the war was over. Red Scare- Communist cares U.S. Joseph McCarthy was the leader of HUAC.
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian- Allies in Berlin there main goal was to drop off supplies in West Berlin on airplanes. Ended May 12, 1949. Soviets moved out of Berlin. Berlin was later split up to east and west. East communist, West Democrat.
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-massive retaliation, mutual detterence
8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
11. The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-
12. Nixon's visit to China-
13. 1970's Peace Attempts-Detente, Salt I, Salt II-
14. Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-
15. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-
16. Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-perestroika and glasnost, INF Treaty-
17. The fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War-explain how it all went down-
18. The new map of Europe(up to present)-
19. Why the US won the Cold War-
20. Korean Conflict--
21. Vietnam Conflict
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