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More Cold War presentations.
- Comunist attack
- America had democracy and soviet union was communist and we thought they would take us over and we would take them over.
- Truman vs. Stalin
- Were allies during war
- D-day delay
- argued about powers
- Refused to Join United Nations
- 3 Power disagreement
- Stalin wanted an agreement from germany
- US wanted to help Germany
- US and Germany wanted to stop communist control.
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
- Anti-communist investigative committee in the US house of representatives
- House of Unamerican Activities
- First Chairman- Martin Dies
- Richard Nxon was an active member
- Investigated public employees, private citizens, and organizations suspected of having communist ties
- Went to Hollywood in 1947 to promote communism through propaganda in movies
- Questioned movie stars and other hollywood people
- The hollywood ten (people they questioned) refused to answer questions about their beliefs
- first amendment
- Went to schools to drive out communism
- Students couldnt do anything political on campus
- HUAC merged intp House judiciary committee in 1975
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
- Accomplishments
- Didnt do much his first 3 years
- Was against death sentances given to German Soldiers that committed the Malmedy Massacre in 1944
- Made claims of the people being communist
- McCarthyism
- refers to people who make untrue accusations
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
- Stalin was aiming to destroy Germany
- USA and USSR had different plans for what they wanted to happen to Germany
- Airlift began on June 24, 1948
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
- Mao Zedong
- founding father of the architect of the Republic of China
- Was the Fommander of the Long March
- Led the Communist party to victory
- Shaing Kai-Sheck
- Member of the Naturalist Party
- Chinese Civil War- April 1927 to May 1950
- Fighting began in 1946.
- The long march-
- massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army
7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-
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- NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organizations
- Governmental military Alliance
- Started in 1949
- Signed by US, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark...ECT
- First NATO Secretary was Lord Ismay
- Still around today
- De-Stalinazation
- Nakita Kruschev began the process.
- Peacful co-existance
- Developed by the Soviet Union
- Peacefully go exist or atleast get along.
8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
- August 1945 Atomic bombs were dropped
- Manhattan Project
- Cold war
- Soviets would work on their own weapons
- Soviets dropped their first bomb in 1949
- US and Soviet Union began working on hydrogen bombs that were smaller and more powerful
- ICBM-Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles or Rocekets
- Minuteman
- Space Race
- Polaris Submarine
- Massive retaliation
- To attack back in a greater way then they were attacked.
- Klaus Fuchs
- spy at Los Alamos
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
- Clostest world has ever came to nuclear war
- Cuba was on edge of using nuclear weapons
- Started cause USSR and US were in the Cold War.
- Began October 19, 1962
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)-
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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)-
- Yugoslavia collapsed after the Cold War
- Soviet Union was the Iron Curtain
- 1991 when things really began falling apart.
- Many Countries broke out because they wanted power and freedom
19. Why the US won the Cold War-
20. Korean Conflict--
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