- Policy of Containment: U.S. used military, economy, and international relations to slow down the spread of communism
- Domino Effect: When several countries turn communist, under the pressure of the countries around them.
- Marshall Plan: Strengthened Europe, it modernized business and industrialization, lowered artificial trade barriers, helped develop self-reliance, and gave hope for the future,
- 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
- Truman Doctrine: took over support from Great Britain, we helped Greece and Turkey-gave them money and military supplies but not troops
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
- Investigated alleged disloyalty and subversive acts on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties
Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
- Joe McCarthy: Accused several people, in Hollywood especially, of being communist. Initially held a lot of popularity, but that soon faded as he became more and more fanatical.
- McCarthyism: Publicizing several fanatical, unproven accusations of, in this case, communism.
Berlin Blockade and Airlift-
- Soviets tried to take control of Berlin. Attempted to cut off West Berliners from rest of the world, blockade was supposed to cause starvation and bankruptcy
- The airlift lifted supplies, LIKE CANDY, into Berlin
China becoming communist-Mao-
- Mao Zedong was the founding father of communism. Agrarian reform law put land into the wrong hands. Divorce was easy, businesses privately owned, no polygamy prostitution or abortion, marriage reform law, no foreigners or cars in cities. Cultural revolution.
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-
Failure; trained cubans to fight against Fidel Castro. It is believed that castro had something to do with the JFK assassination.
Embarrassment to the military and JFK
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
- Missiles being held in Cuba, we quarantined them so no more missiles could come in. Made a deal that if all missiles were removed from Cuba, we would not invade them.. we also removed our missiles from Turkey.
11. The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-
12. Nixon's visit to China-
- Part of the detante feeling of the '70s. Visited in 1972, which was unexpected. China had previously been isolated. Activated communications through Warsaw, Poland to China. Wow. Conrad talked about a bunch of useless crap that didn't relate to his main topic. FAIL. I hate his presentation. His voice is creepy. and I am ANGERED!! Ugh, He mentioned crap about the communications. They used help from the Pakistanis to contact the Chinese as well. Henry Kissenger, the National security advisor assisted in setting up the meeting. Jeesus WHO CARES ABOUT HIS SHIRT!!! CONRAD! talk about things that I actually need to know for my TEST.
- Talks were held for a week in Beijing between china's leaders and Nixon. They talked about things such as the control of Vietnam, along with the Vietnam War, and the chinese/ USSR relationship. The US and China recognized a common enemy in the Soviet Union, but China very much wanted Taiwan back from Chang Kai Chek.
13. 1970's Peace Attempts-Detente, Salt I, Salt II-
- Detante= relaxation. All sides feared nuclear war, and several attempts were made at peace. China, US, USSR.
- Salt 1= stragegic arms and limitations talks, salt 1 occured from '69 to '72. Limited nuclear weapons.
- Salt 2= between carter and brezhnev, '77-'79. banned new missle programs. restricted manufaturing of nuclear weapons. Never actually passed.
14. Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-
- Grain production dropped.
- communist leader Najibullah; Taraki and Amin. Five million mines in the country, which people continue to die from.
- Al Qaeda and Taliban formed, the invasion was a failure, caused low morale, loss of 15,000 soldiers
- 1 million Afghans killed, Soviets; lost hundreds of aircrafts and other machines,
- President Carter prohibited trade with Soviets, also boycotted the Moscow Olympic games, we spent a lot of money
- support the resistance group against Soviets
15. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-
16. Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-Perestroika and Glasnost
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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