Topics:
1. Causes of the Cold War-
-Opposing governments
-democracy vs. communism
-economic
-US encouraged free trade
- Communist trying to stay cut off
-power struggle
-communism was being spread to european
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
-Policy of Containment- STOPPING COMMUNISM- US used military, economy, and international relations to stop the spread of communism
-domino effect- one country becomes communist and another follows soon after and more and more start becoming communist- tried to conquor the world
-Iron Curtain- divided europe into two groups
-Iron Curtain Speech- Churchill gave this speech, addressed the segregation between west and east europe
-Marshall Plan- give money to the european countries, soviet union and allies did not accept, modernized and industrialized-trying to stop communism from spreading
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
-established in 1938
-created to investigate communism in america
-considered investigating the KKK- but some members agreed with them
-able to subpoena witnesses and stuff
-Nixon was a member
- Hollywood Ten- people accused of making communist propaganda in movies
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
- senator from wisconsin
- very anti-communist
- took fighting communism as kind of a witch hunt
- McCarthyism- the political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty of subversion withinsufficient regard to evidence
- how he identified communist
- people who sympathized with commies
- associates of known commies
- homosexuals
- hollywood figures
- higher ups in the army
- tactics for conviction
- put in room
- threaten
- attacking hollywood
- Entertainment Industry Blacklist- names- couldnt get jobs
- Hollywood 10
- Waldorf Statement- firing of Hollywood 10
- political figures hated him
- if they spoke out against him he would accuse them
- was eventually fired
- drank himself to death
5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-
- Allied Control Council- rebuild germany
- soviets wanted to make their chunk communist
- Stalin had Berlin cut off from supplies and all that good stuff
- there were no air restrictions made
- US, Breat Britian, and France start airlifting supplies into Berlin
- Black Friday- plane crashed cuz rain made low visibility
- Berliners pitched in and helped load and unload
- soviets couldnt do anything
- ended blockade
6. China becoming communist-Mao-
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-
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--
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