Tuesday April 17

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Today we are going to begin projects. 

1. Causes of the Cold War-

• Different political systems

             - US is based on democracy, capitalism, and freedom

             - USSR is based on dictatorship, communism, and control

• Both though their system was better and distrusted the others
• Stalin despised capitalism
• Stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections at the Yalta conference
• American fear of a communist attack(Red Scare) and USSR's fear of a US attack
• USSR's fear of the atomic bomb
• USSR's actions in their German zone 
• USSR's goal to spread communism around the world
• This feeling of suspicion lead to mutual distrust and this did a great deal to deepen the Cold War.

Post WW2/ cold war goals for US

• Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
• Promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa
• Stop the spread of communism 

Post WW2/ cold war goals for the USSR

• Wanted to create greater security for itself

            - lost tens of millions of people in WW2 and STalin's purges

            - feared a strong Germany

• Establish defensible borders 
• Encourage friendly governments on it's borders
• Spread communism around the world

2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine

Policy of Containment: To contain the spread of communism

-policy was in response to Soviet Union influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam.

-Lead to the development of the North atlantic traty organization (NATO)

Domino Effect

-A change will cause another change which casue another change in linear sequence

-Used by many leaders

-President Dwight Eisenhower applied this theory.

Iron Curtain Speech

- Consider this the start of the cold war

- Talks how Europe split into East and West. The East being Communist and the West being democratic

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