Causes of the Cold War-
-Truman Doctrine
- Started at Peace Time Conference
-Launched Marshall Plan un 1947
-Truman's dislike of Stalin
-Russia's Dislike of Capitalism
-America's Refusal to Share Nuclear Secrets
-Russia's Aim For Spreading World Communism
2. Policy of Containment: US strategy to prevent to spread of communism around the world
Domino Effect- main for the Cold War ( theory that communism would spread)
Iron Curtain Speech, by winston Churchill, it changed the Americans opinions on the Communist East
Marshall Plan, European Recovery Program, Americans program to help European countries after WW2, it also to prevent the spread of communism begin April 1948
Goals:
-Re-build land ruined by war
-Remove trade barriers
-Offered to USSR but not accepted- $13 billion
Truman Doctrine- It was our support for Greece and Turkey which provided economic and miliary aid
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-massive retaliation, mutual detterence
8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
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-- 1950-1953 and it was between. Russia took North Korea and made them communist and then the US ook South Korea to make it Democratic. Causes would be ha he US wanted to stop communism. The Sovie Union waned to spread communism. It ended by North Korea signing a armistice.
21. Vietnam Conflict
Cold War Goals for US
-Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depressions
-Stop the spread of communism
Soivet Union Goals
-Wanted to create greater security for itself (lots tens of million of people in WW2 and Stalin's purges) (feared Germany)
-Establish defensible borders
-Encourage friendly governments on its borders
-Spread communism around the world
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