Thursday May 6 2010
These are the questions we had to answer
1. Define the Cold War and it's causes
2. Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive retaliation, Truman Doctine, Marshall Plan, NATO
3. Both Berlin Crises
4. The Red Scare--McCarthyism and HUAC
5. Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis
6. China
7. Nuclear Arms Race and Reductions
8. How the Cold War ended.
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9. Korean Conflict
10. Vietnam Conflict
· Today we had a practice ITED thing
· We also went over some key facts about the Cold War.
o 45-90
o a political strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union
· Than we got to the projects
o First we had the causes of the Cold War.
§ Russian Revolution
· Tsar system gets replaced
· This is when the provisional party got overthrown
· Communist party took over
· Vladimir Lenin
§ Red Scare
· Russian revolution
· Anti communist
· Immigrants anti government
· USA and western Europe
· Sedition act help campaign against radicals and left wing organizations
§ Other causes
· Beliefs
o Soviet union- communist
o State before civil rights
o USA- capitalist democracy
o Valued freedom and we feared communist
o Soviets wanted to spread worldwide
· Aims
o Stalin wanted huge reparation from Germany
o Surrounding countries
o Invasion
o US and GB wanted to protect democracy because European states were falling under soviet control
· History
o 1918 wanted to destroy the Russian revolution
o in ww2 soviet union thought we should of helped them more instead of attacking africa
· Trust
· Actions
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