Continuing presentations today, then moving into blog discussion.
Topics:
1. Causes of the Cold War/ Goals for the US-
-americans fear of communist attack
- they were afraid communists would take over the world
- trumans dislike of stalin
- stalin refused to join the league of nations
-Russias fear of our atomic bomb
- all about nuclear war
-Russia's dislike of capitalism
- we were succeeding by using it
-America's refusal to share nuclear secrets
- secrets are part of the war
-Russia's expansion west into Eastern Europe
- Russia promised not to expand but they did anyways
-Russia's fear of American Attack
- Russia was afraid of bombs, army, navy, etc.
- Russia's need for secure western border
- secure borders to protect them from attacks
- Karl Marx came up with the idea of communism
-Russia's aim of spreading world communism
- more comunistic countries
- less enemies
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
- Domino chain affect
- it was just a chain because if one country went into communisim then it would be followed by another country
- The Iron Curtain
- ideological and physical divide that was between the soviet controlled areas in eastern europe and the democratic government in western europe
- Marshal Plan
- the marshal plan also knkown as the european recovery program was an american program to aid europe where the US could give monterary support to help rebuild the european economies in the end of WW2 to prevent soviet communism
-Truman Doctrine
- a policy set forth by president truman in a speech in 47 stating that we would support creece and Turkey economicaly. This is often considered as the start of the cold war.
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
-About
- established in 1938
- amarican org.
- seeking out
-Who was involved?
- US and USSR
- yalta conference
- Big 3 - FDR, Churchill, Stalin
-Red Scare
- scares of having communist coming in
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism
-Senator Joe McCarthy
- Secretary of State
-McCarthy Downfall
- hurting presidential Adm.
- Eisenhower refrains
- June 9th 1954
-McCarthyism
- accusing people of being communists without much evidence
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
-Berlin Blockade
- lasted from June 24 1948 til May 12 1949
- main goal was to get the soviet Union out of west berlin
- wanted to force negotiations over the division and future of Germany
- blocked off all railroads and airports in east berlin
- Soviet Union had control of berlin
- wanted the western allies to let them supply berlin with food and other supplies
- wanted to have control of all berlin
- main goal was to drop off supplies to west berlin
- flew 200,000 or more flights a year
- 4700 tons of supplies were dropped off each day
- the allies won because they dropped off so many supplies
- ended May 12, 1949
- soviets moved out of berlin
- later split up to east and west
- west was the federal republic of germany
- east was the german democratic republic of germany
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
Blog Discussion:
Truman:
-Became vice pres for FDR in January 1945
-took over for FDR when he died in april 1945
-one of the most umpopular presidents of all time when he left office - 22% approval rating
-rating has improved greatly over the last 60 years
-Defeated Dewey in the election
-decided to drop an atomic bomb on japan
-was the first president who started to get involved in vietnam
Fair Deal:
-similar to FDRs new deal
-aimed to promote economic development and social welfare
-faced a lot of opposition from southern democrats and republicans
-most fair deal proposals did not get passed
Eisenhower:
-won by a landslide
-convinced a lot of people
-hated democrats
-he was a famous general and that put him over the top
-was the comanding general in WWII
-ended the korean conflict
-served two terms
-kept america at peace
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