1. Causes of the Cold War-
- Different political systems
- 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.
- 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
- Wanted to create greater security for itself
- 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
Marshall Plan
-Financial aid to European countries
-Stop communism by America giving Europe $17 billion
-This money was used to European countries rebuild that were devastated by the war.
-This plan was to help European countries to gain strength and stop the spread of communism
-We boost there economy which would help our trade and we wouldn't fall in Great Depression again.
Truman Doctrine
-March 12, 1947
- Truman wanted to stop USSR from growing more but not destroy it.
-President Truman stated that he would give economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent them from falling into Soviet control.
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
-organization that went after communist in our country.
-Hollywood actors would be black listed because of films that were dealing with communism.
-Red scare happened after both World Wars.
-There were more like witch hunts.
- Give names of people who were communist.
4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
- Studied engineering and law when he was in college.
-became lawyer and was good
- was in the united states marine corps
-became second lieutenant after completing basic training
-won a place in senate agains Howard McMurry
-First 3 yrs of the senate were uneventful. He was a good speaker but not to popular to other senators because he was a little big on himself
-On February 9, 1950, he gave a speech saying that he had a paper with names of communists that worked in the state department
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
Comments