We continued the Cold War presentations today.
Goals-
- U.S. goals-
- Stop the spread of communism,
- Promote democracy thorough the world- Africa and Asia.
- Wanted to promote open market for U.S. goods to prevent anouther depression.
- Soviet Union goals-
- Wanted to create a 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 gov. on it's borders.
- Spread communism around the world.
1. Causes of the Cold War-
- Truman doctrine- Stalin didn't like it.
- Launched Marshall Plan in 1947.
- Started at Peace Time Conference.
- America feared a nuclear war.
- Communists taking over the world.
- Truman didn't like Stalin.
- Stalin wanted to spread communism.
- They disagree over the future of Europe-communism/democracy.
- Russian's fear over the atomic bomb- it would end the world, nuclear war would happen.
- Russia didn't like capitalism.
- Russian's actions in the Soviet Zone of Germany.
- America's refusal to share nuclear secrets- U.S. wouldn't share info. during WWII.
- Russia's expansion west into eastern Europe and broken promises- he promised free election in Europe.
- Russia's need for a secure western border- protection, invasion, and attacks.
- Russia's aim for spreading world communism
- U.S. wanted free trade, Soviet Union wanted to shield off from international commerce, Russia feared trade with the West would involve them being opened with western influences.
- Soviet Union and U.S. shared power- one of them wanted to dominate the other.
2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-
- Policy of Containment-
- U.S. strategy to prevent the spread of communism around the world.
- Response t oSociet Union spreading communism to smaller countries.
- By George F. Kennan in 1947.
- Domino Effect-
- Main reason for the Cold War.
- Theory that communism would spread around the world.
- Iron Curtain-
- Speach by Winston Churchill.
- In Fulton, MO.
- Called the Sinew of Peace.
- Considered to be the begining of the war.
- Marshall Plan-
- American plan to help European countriese after WWII.
- European Recovery Program- ERP.
- Prevent the spread of communism.
- Began in April 1948.
- George Marshall.
- Goals-
- Rebuild land ruined by war.
- Remove trade barriers.
- Modernize industry.
- Offered to USSR but they didn't accept it.
- 13 billion dollars.
- Part of post war recovery.
- 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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