The cold war (1945-1990)
Def- Struggle between the U.S and Soviet Union Communism vs Democracy. later spread through out the wold, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. It was all about us stopping communism.
- The world was divided in to diffrent parts, East was Controlled by the soviets
- West- was free countries or democratic
Democracy- government for the people and run by the people.
Capitalism- How businesses are ran and controlled by the people/groups of people control the businesses -Socialism-were the government controls the economy, the idea is to dived evenly. Socialism is based upon equality
Communism-
bad because everyone is equally poor!
- Karl Marx- was the one who came up with it.
- class struggle- poor vs rich
- will create a social class of society were everybody is equal
- Bolshevik Revolution- dropped out of ww1- Vladamir Lenin/ Stalin takes over-
- He started the nationalization, collectivization processes
- Red scare- were the U.S feared that we thought that we would become communist
Cold War Topics
1. Causes of the Cold War-
Americans feared the Communist- because they thought it was going to take over the world- Truman disliked Stalin - because Stalin was a communist and because he was a mas murder of people.
- Russia's fear of the atomic bomb- because it could wipe them out , we had manipulation of the atomic bomb for approximately for four years. So we used to power of the atomic bomb to get what the U.S wanted. To boss other countries around. You do this or will bomb you, because we were the only ones that had it. Then the soviet Union got their own atomic bomb.
- Russia's dislike of capitalism- because they felt it was unfair.
- Russia's fear of an American attack-
-The United States and the Soviet Union represented two apposing systems of government. So it was Communism VS Democracy.
- The U.S anted to encourage free trade all around the world, which lead up to capitalism -Russia feared that free trade with the west would involve the risk of Russia being opened to western influences or capitalism.
- Rivalries of the cold war- with constant threats U.S vs The Soviet Union- lasted till the 1990's in the down fall of the Soviet Union.
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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