Today we started Cold War Projects-
The Cold war was a political, strategy, and idiologic struggle between the Soviet Union and US from 1945-1991
1. Causes of the Cold War-
- Tuman declared the Truman Doctrine
- Started at Peace Time Conference
- Launched Marshall Plan in 1947
- American Fear of Communist Attack
- Nuclear War Starting
- Take over the World
- Truman's Dislike of Stalin
- Stalin was a murding Dictator
- Truman as a humanitarian democrat
- Stalin wanted to spead communism
- Disagreed over the future of Europe
- Russia's Fear of the American's Atomic Bomb
- All out nuclear war
- Would ruin way of life and communism
- Russia's Dislike of Capitalism
- United States was succeeding
- Capitalism: an economic system in which resources and means of production, and the distribution of goods and deterimined mainly by competition in a free market
- Russia's Actions in the Soviet Zone of Germany- Berlin Blockade
- America's Refusal to Share Nuclear Secrets
- Secrets are part of any war
- (cold or hot) (shooting or non-shooting)
- Russia's Expansion West into Eastern Europe & Broken Election Promises(no free elections in Europe)
- Russia's need for secure Western Border
- Protection
- Invasion
- Attacks
- Russia's aim for Spreading World Communism
- Economics
- US wanted free trade
- They didn't want western influences
- Power Rivalry
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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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