Cold War-political,strategic, and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union
East-communist
West-democracy
Democracy-people have freedom,they have a vote(US)
communists-government control
Freedom(democracy) vs. Control(communists)
Causes of the Cold War
Communists vs Non-Communists
Yalta Conference-US,GB,France,and USSR seperation of Germany into 4 parts
Atomic Bomb-Russia got mad at the US because we didnt run it by them before we made an atomic bomb...so Russia got mad and made their own but neither of them had to use the bombs...
Treaty between Poland and USSR-since the USSR was still mad at us for making the atomic bomb another thing that they did was sign a border treaty with Poland saying that they couldnt have war on each other....
Iron Curtain-Russia had control over Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslavakia and they called these countries the Iron Curtain
Bolshevik Revolution- in 1917 bolshevik soldiers, sailors, and red guards stormed the winter palace and arrested some of the provisional government.. Basically the Bolshevik's took over and Russia became communist and that really led to the Cold War...
Red Scare-started because of a fear of anarchism and communism...It was brought up by alexander mitchell palmer, he started illegal searches, and deportations of expected communists...this was the first one in early 20's...
Policy of Containment
US used it to stop the spread of communism...it build up foreign policy, prevented the domino effect...President Truman best represented the policy...
George Kennan-creator of the policy...US ambassador and diplomat in Soviet Union and Yugoslavia...leader of many programs...critic of international policies...
Domino Effect-communist theory-just keep making countries communist...taking over South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia...Thailand and Indonesia were not taken over
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