Starting presentations today.
Topics:
1. Causes of the Cold War-
-americans fear of communist attack
- they were afraid communists would take over the world
- trumans dislike of stalin
- stalin refused to join the league of nations
-Russias fear of our atomic bomb
- all about nuclear war
-Russia's dislike of capitalism
- we were succeeding by using it
-America's refusal to share nuclear secrets
- secrets are part of the war
-Russia's expansion west into Eastern Europe
- Russia promised not to expand but they did anyways
-Russia's fear of American Attack
- Russia was afraid of bombs, army, navy, etc.
- Russia's need for secure western border
- secure borders to protect them from attacks
- Karl Marx came up with the idea of communism
-Russia's aim of spreading world communism
- more comunistic countries
- less enemies
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
- Domino chain affect
- it was just a chain because if one country went into communisim then it would be followed by another country
- The Iron Curtain
- ideological and physical divide that was between the soviet controlled areas in eastern europe and the democratic government in western europe
- Marshal Plan
- the marshal plan also knkown as the european recovery program was an american program to aid europe where the US could give monterary support to help rebuild the european economies in the end of WW2 to prevent soviet communism
-Truman Doctrine
- a policy set forth by president truman in a speech in 47 stating that we would support creece and Turkey economicaly. This is often considered as the start of the cold war.
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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