Blog Disscussion over Presidents
Harry Truman
*He ran againt Dewey in the 1948 election- Truman won
*His biggest accomplishment was planning to drop the atomic bomb
*He integrated black and white troops
*Truman Doctirne and Marshall Plan
*One of the most unpopular presidents in our History
*33rd president
*Had to deal with transition from wartime economy to peacetiem economy
*Desegreated the US military
*Created the CIA- Centeral Intelligence Aid
*"The buck stops here"- If something bad happens it is his responsibility
-Fair Deal-
*Just like FDR's new deal
*Designed to help people in need
*Most of the programs were not passed
*Civil rights, housing, social security, minimum wage, and health
*Help people out
*Got the US involoved in Vietnam by giving aid to France
*Berlin Airlife during his presidecny
*NATO established
*McCarthyism
*The Korean Conflict and firing of General Douglass MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
*He won because he convinced people alot of things
*He was famous for being a General
*He ran against Stevensen
*1956 election was still agsint Stevensen and Dwight won
*He promoted sharing out knowledge with the League of Nations
*He set and placed our interstate program
*He was diagansoed with Chromes diasese
*He had a stroke
1. Causes of the Cold War and goals
*Afraid Communists were going to take over the world
*Truman was our president and Stalnin was Soviet Leader
*Stalin refused to join the league of nations
*Russia feared our atomic bomb
*Capitalism is an economic system in which a countrys trade are controlled by private owners
*Russia had a dislike of capitalism because we were succeding by using it
*Stalin hated capitalism
*We would not share our nuclear secrets until
*Russia promised they wouldnt expand, but they did anyway
*They wanted secure borders to protect them from out attacks
*Karl Marx was who thought of Communism
*More communistic countires and less enemies for Russias aim of spreading world communism
-Goals for US-
*Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
*Promote democracy throughout the world, especiallt in Asia and Africa
*Stop spread of communism
-Goals for USSR-
*Wanted to create greater security for itself
-lost tens of millions of poeple in WWII and Stalins purges
-Feared a strong Germany
*Establish defensible borders
*Encourage friends governments on its borders
*Spread communism around the world
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
*Domino Effect is when President Eisenhower adn his national securiy adviser introduced the domino theory during the 1950's. If one country went into communism thenit would be followed by others
*The Iron Curtian is the ideolical and physical divide was between the sovie controlled areas in eastern Europe and the democratic government in western Europe
*Marshal Plan is the plan known as the European recovery program was an american program to aid Europe wher ethe US could give support to rebuild european economies in the end of WWII to prevent soviet communism to spread
*Truman Doctrine is the policy by presidnet Truman in a speech stating that we would support Greece and Turkey
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
*Established in 1938
*Ended in 1975
*FDR, Stalin, and Churchill were the big three
*The Red Scare was Communism scares in US
*It was looking for ways to find communists
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
*McCarthyism is accusing people of doing things
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
*Lasted from June 24, 1948- May 12, 1949
*Its goal was to get the Soveit Union out of west Berlin
-Sovet Union in Berlin-
*Had control of west Berlin
*Great Britian and US were supplying Berlin with food and other supplies
*Wanted to have control over all Berlin
*Blocked off all railroads and airports in east Berlin
*The allies had control of North, South, and West
*North was France
*West was Great Britain
*South USA
*They were called the blockade powers
*Main goal for the allies was to drop off supplies to West Berlin
*The blockade ended May 12, 1949
*West Berlin was the Federal Republic of Germnay
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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