Waiting for the questions to pull up on the US History page...and we officially listened to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech.
Ah here we go.
1. Post WWII/Cold War Goals for the US: wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression. Wnated to create greater security for itself. Lost billions of people in WWII and Stalin's purges, and they feared a strong Germany. They also wanted to establish defensible borders, encouraged frienly governments on it's borders
3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)- Mine and will continue tomorrow
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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