Monday- Review
Tuesday- Absent
Wednesday- Test
Thursday- Cold War start
COLD WAR
- A political, strategic, and ideological struggle between the US and Soviet Union
- SU had completely different ideas than US
- Democracy- Power withing the people
- People have a say, freedom
- Communism- Theory and Practice, government say
- Theory- Everybody is equal
- Practice- Gov control of everything
- Capitalism- People own businesses
- Weakness- income and equality
- Socialism- Government own and controls business
Causes
- Stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections at the Yalta Conference
- American fear of a communist attack (Red Scare)
- USSR fear of a US attack
Goals for US
- Stop spread for communism
- Promote democracy
- Promote open markets for US goods
Goals for Soviet Union
- Wanted to spread communism
- Protect their selves with communist governments
- Making them selves secure
Domino Theory
- If the communist control one nation, the rest of the world will soon follow
Policy of Containment
- A policy that was issued to prevent the spread of communism
Truman doctrine
- Greece and Turkey
- US would help countries in Europe with military and economic aid if threatened by communism by SU
Marshall plan
- US helped European countries economic support and help rebuild
- So they wouldn't turn communist
Brinkmanship
- Going to the brink of war without going into war
Mutual Assured Destruction
- Using strong weapons to create an explosion to destroy opposite sides
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
- Military alliance formed between 28 nations to enforce North Atlantic Treaty
- Designed to fight against Warsaw pact
- Countries:
- West Germany
- US
- France
- Italy
- Canada
Warsaw Pact
- An alliance between the SU and most eastern European countries to counterbalance NATO
- Fell with the SU in 1991
Iron Curtain Speech
- A speech given by Winston Churchill
- Could not go to Europe
CIA
- Spies from our country to spy on other countries
- Assignations of other leaders
KGB
- "CIA" of the Soviet Union
- Spying on other countries
Peaceful Coexistence
- Capitalism and communism don't work together but can still live near each other
- They wouldn't interfere with each other
Desalinization
- Getting rid of everything that Stalin did from the Russian government
- Destroy everything of his
Detente
- Releasing tension between Soviet Union and US
Perestroika
- The fixing of the economic and political systems
- Gorbachev was leader pf SU
Glasnost
- More open for peoples say in SU
Can have nuclear weapons:
- France
- Russia
- China
- US
- UK
Have nuclear weapons but are not supposed to:
- Israel
- North Korea
- India
- Pakistan
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1970
- Treaty signed Preventing spread of nuclear weapons
- Can't make nuclear weapons but can use nuclear power
- Disarm countries that cant have nuclear weapons
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty 1963
- The banning of all nuclear test practices in the US, SU, and UK
- Only can test underground
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks 1972 (SALT)
- An agreement between the SU and the US to stop trying to develop missiles for nuclear weapon transportation
Anti-ballistic Missile treaty
- A system that would predict missiles put on US
Missile defense system
- A system that destroys missiles in the atmosphere before it hits a target
Comprehensive Nuclear test band treaty
- The ban of nuclear explosions everywhere by everyone who signed it
International Atomic Energy agency (IAEA)1957
- Goes into countries and inspects nuclear technology and weapons
INF treaty 1987
- Designed to reduce nuclear missiles
- Intermediate missiles
START treaty
- The removal of about 80% of all nuclear weapons in the world
SORT
- Stockpile of nuclear weapons would be cut in half
- US and Russia
New START 2011
- Nuclear missile launchers would be cut in half
- US and Russia
United Nations
- Made after WW2
- A worldwide peace keeping organization
- Wage war against countries that are aggressive
- Will help a country that has been attacked
- Has a military force and US joined it
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