f the Cold War-
- Americans feared communism
- Truman disliked Stalin
- Russia feared the atomic bomb
- Russia didn’t like capitalism
- Russia fear of an American attack
Ideological
- The US and the Soviet Union represented two opposing systems of Government
- The US gov. is elected by free elections
- They pose the right of assembly
Economic
- The US wanted to encourage free trade all around the world
- Russia feared that free trade with the west involve the risk of Russia being opened to western influences
Power Rivalry
- After the second world war with Europe power was largely shared between the soviet union and US
- The both wanted to dominate each other and conflicts started
Rivalries of the Cold War
- Two rivalries of the cold war were Soviets and US
- The rivalry lasted for the late ‘40s till the collapse of the soviet union 1990
- Super powers questioned each other
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
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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