Monday:
- Gone
Tuesday:
- Gone-- Started Cold War
Wednesday:
- Cold War discussion over PowerPoint - project info
Thursday:
- Went over Decade Project and had a work day
- Link to Decade Project Requirements
Friday:
Causes of the Cold War
- Different political systems
- US is based on democracy, capitalism and freedom
- USSR is based on dictatorship, communism and control
- The Red Scare- 1919
- Both thought their system was better and distrusted the others intentions
- Stalin despised capitalism
- Distrust during WWII
- 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 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
- Yalta Conference-- February 1945
- Before the end of the WWII, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt met at Yalta to plan what should happen when the war ended. They agreed on many points:
- The establishment of the United Nations
- Germany to be divided into four zones
- Free elections allowed in the sates of eastern Europe
- Russia promised to join the war against Japan
- The "West"
- Democratic world
- Super Power= United States
- The "East"
- Communist world
- Super Power= Soviet Union
- Alliances
- NATO vs Warsaw Pact
- US and Canada and Western European Countries included vs Poland, East Germany, Hungary, etc
- NATO vs Warsaw Pact
- Before the end of the WWII, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt met at Yalta to plan what should happen when the war ended. They agreed on many points:
- 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
- Policy of Containment
- 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
- Established defensible borders
- Encourage friendly governments on its borders
- Spread communism around the world
- Wanted to create greater security for itself
- Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain" Speech 1946
- Missouri
- an iron curtain split Europe
- you had the West and the East
- Domino Effect - Eisenhower-1954
- one country became communist and a bunch of others followed
- Soviet Union was mastermind behind it
- led to Containment factors
- Policy of Containment-1946
- year after WWII ends, we know Soviet Union has a problem and we need to stop it
Comments