Wednesday, April 10

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Bolshevik Revolution ("communist")

-Comintern (communist)

-US Red Scare\

    -stopped immigration

Karl Marx

Definition

• A political, strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union
  
• Spread throughout the world- Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America

Discussion

• Communism vs. Democracy  
• Socialism vs. Capitalism

Causes

• Different political systems
  
  • Us is based on Democracy, capitalism and freedom
  • USSR is based on dictatorship, communism and control
• Both thought their system was better and distrusted the others intentions
• Stalin despised capitalism
• Stalin breaking his problem to allow free elections at he Yalta Conference
• American fear of a communist attack(Red Scare) and USSR's fear of 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

Yalta Conference

• Before the end of the World War II, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met at Yalta to plan what should happen when the war ended. They agreed on many point.
  • The establishment of the United Nations
  • Germany to be divided into four zones
  • Free elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
  • Russia promised to joint he war against Japan

Post WWII/ 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 WWII/ Cold War Goals for USSR

• Wanted to create greater security for itself
  • lost tens of millions of people in WWII and Stalin's purges
  • Feared a strong Germany
• Establish defensible borders
• Encourage friendly governments on it's borders
• Spread communism around the world

United states joined United Nations

-General Assembley

-Security Council- 5/10 - 3 major actions

-Changes from League of Nations

Wage war

send peacekeepers in

economic sanctions

Keywords

1. Iron Curtain Speech- given by Winston Churchill,
2. Domino Theory(effect)- Eisenhower, through the cold war, is one country became communist all the surrounding countries would also become communist
3. Policy of Containment- 1946 George Kenan containing communism
4. Truman Doctrine- Truman gave it, US should support Greece and Turkey with aid
5. Marshall plan- George Marshall, American program to support Europe but they refused except western Europe. Main reason was so that Communism didn't spread there
6. Brinkmanship--  Pushing dangerous events to the brink of war without going to war and coming out with the most outrages event
7. Massive Retaliation/Mutual Deterrence/ Mutual Assured Destruction- Someone retaliates someone and they do it back and then it just dies.
8. NATO vs. Warsaw Pact- North Atlantic Treaty organization
9. CIA vs. KGB-  Spies for our country, security for Soviet Union
10. Peaceful Coexistence- Khrushchev said we don't have to go to war and can have peaceful coexistence
11. De-Stalinization-  process of removing Stalin from leadership and everything he did (Mao Zedong struggle with this)
12. Detente -easing of tensions
13. Perestroika-  change in the political system and letting people do what they want like own business
14. Glasnost- Change in Government and letting people have for say into the government
15. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963- removing Nuclear testing above grounds
16. Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty 1968-
    • Was to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology
    • Promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament
    • signed in New York
    • 190 parties joined
      • five states recognized as nuclear-weapon states:
        • United States
        • Russia
        • United Kingdom
        • France
        • China
    •  India, Pakistan,Israel, South Sudan never joined
      
    • North Korea Withdrew
    • Taiwan is abiding by treaty though outside
17. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks(treaty) 1972 -limited the number of nuclear weapons a country could have
18. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 1972- We wouldn't shoot down any missiles, maintain the ideas of Deturance