USA v USSR
definiton
- political, strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the USSR
- spread throughout the world-Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Causes
- different political system
- US based on democracy, capitalism, and freedom
- USSR based on dictatorship, communism, and control
- both thought their system was better
- Stalin breaking his promise to allow free at the Yalta Conference
- Red Scare
- USSR's fear of a US attack
- USSR's fear of an atomic bomb
- USSR's actions in Germany
- USSR's goal to spread communism around the world
Yalta Conference
- big 3 agreed to
- establishment of the UN
- Germany to be divided into 4 zones
- Free elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
- Russia promised to join the war against Japan
- Stalin broke his promises
Post WWII/Cold War goals for US
- Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
- Stop the spread of communism
- promote democracy throughout the world
Post WWII/Cold War goals for USSR
- wanted to create greater security for itself
- lost tens of millions of people in WWII and Stalin's purges
- Establish defensible borders
- Spread communism
Berlin Air Lift
- 3 western controlled zones of Germany's (US, France, UK) were united
- west wanted the east to rejoin, but Stalin feared it would hurt Soviet security
- In June 1948, Staling decided to try to gain control of West Berlin which was deep inside the eastern sector
- He cut road, rail, and canal links with the West hoping it would starve
- West responded by airlifting supplies
- In May 1949, USSR gives up
Stalin Dies
- in 1953
- leader of the KBG spit on his face then Stalin dies
Nikita Khrushchev
- takes over
- talks of peaceful co-existence and de-stlanizition
Space Race
- USSR was first to put a satellite/space ship into space
- US was first to land on the moon on 1969
- USSR put animals into space
Castro
- overthrows the Batista
- becomes leader
Berlin War
- put up in 1961
- divided Berlin, Germany
- East was communistic
- West was not
Bay of Pigs
- US secret attempt to overthrow Castro
- failed horribly
- lead to Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
- USSR put missile into Cuba
- Most intense of the Cold War
- US wanted the missiles out of Cuba
- resolution
- US's secret missile out Turkey in exchange for the missiles in Cuba out
November 9th, 1989
- Berlin Wall comes down
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