Cold War Projects today!
A political, strategic, and ideological struggle between US and Soviet Union
Topics:
*1. Causes of the Cold War:
- The two countries had different
- beliefs
- political systems
*US is based on democracy, capitalism, and freedom.
*USSR is based on dictatorship, communism, and control. - Both countries thought their system was better of the two and distrusted the others intentions.
- Stalin despised capitalism
- What drives capitalist?
*Greed.
*Thought Great Britain and US would go to war and destroy eachother. - Stalin broke promise to allow free elections at Yalta Conference.
- American fear of a communist attack (Red Scare) and USSR fear of US attack.
- USSR fear of atomic bomb
- USSR actions in their German zone
- USSR goal to spread communism around the world
- Feeling of suspiction lead to mutual distrust and did a great deal to deepen the war
- US Goals
- wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent depression
- promote democracy around the world
- stop spread of communism - Goals for USSR
- wanted to create greater security
*lost tens of millions of people to WWII and Stalin's purges
*feared a strong Germany
- Established defensive borders
- Encourage friendly governments on its borders
- Spread communism around the world
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
- Policy of Containment:
- prevent spread of communism
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--
21. Vietnam Conflict
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