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1. Causes of the Cold War-
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
Policy of Containment; U.S. used military, economy, and international relations to slow down the spread of communism
Domino effect; one country becoming communist sparked the decision of another one to be come communist also
Iron Curtain Speech; Iron curtain divided Europe into two groups after WWII, speech given by Churchill on March 5, 46 and it addressed the segregation between East and West Europe, and it was then that the Cold War began
Marshall Plan; Strengthen European economic foundation, it modernized business and industrialization, lowered artificial trade barriers, helped develop self-reliance, and gave hope for the future, we helped European countries
Truman Doctrine; took over support from Great Britain, we helped Greece and Turkey-gave them money and military supplies but not troops
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
HUAC; investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive acts on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
anti-communists, 57 names of people in public who were communist.. took communism as one big witch hunt.. investigate people and then release names to the public.. McCarthy: accusing people of wrong doing without having evidence.. identified communists by associates communists, expressed communist sympathies, homosexuals, hollywood figures, higher up people in the Army
Tactics for Conviction: put them in a room and black mail them etc
Attacked hollywood.. Entertainment Industry Blacklist-entertainers with real or suspected ties to communism.. Hollywood Ten-first 10 members of industry refused to cooperate claiming right to free speech..
Hollywood made movies going agaisnt McCarthy (such as the Crucible)
On his side: 50% of people,. American legions, minute women of USA, American public relations forum, christian organizations
Not:pres. Truman, Lyndon B Johson, politicians, Edward Murrow ("See It Now"), Communist Party
At the time he had no evidence.. but a lot of them ended up being or having ties to communism
Fired McCarthy drank himself to death after went to court
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
Germany was plit into East and West Germany... Great Britain, France, USA and then the Soviet Union
Soviets wanted to make Berlin communist.. tried to cut off west berliners from the rest of the world.. would cause starvation and bankruptcy..
No agreemnets had been made for air restrictions.. had to supply city by air
had to fly in coal and gasoline and food
GB, US, Candada, France, Australia helped out
Black Friday.. rain caused low visibility and planes crashed
New Rules:
if plane missed its landing spot.. must return home
used 10 ton C-54s instead of 3.5 ton C-47s
Germans would rather starve and suffer instead of falling to the Soviets
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
Mao Zedong: leader of chinese revolution, founding father of people's repulbic china, led communist party
Had coalation government:a lot of people running one government,
Agraarian Reform Law: redistributed land.. land revolution spoke out against it
communism took over=changes:divorce, polygamy banned, killing of unwanted babies banned, no arranged marriages, no cars, no foreigners, no foreign business in cities, controlled inflation, state bank and no private bank, small businesses stay open to boost economy
Three Antis Campaign: targeted communist cadres that become close to China's Capitalists
Socialism: 5 year plan: development of heavy industry (soviets).. collective agriculture
Mao's attempt to modernize China (Great Leap Forward)
7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-
8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
put a naval blockade around Cuba.. US and Soviets made a deal where the Soviets would dismantle and remove missle sites.. US removes missles from Turkey
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--
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