MON:
Cold war
POst WWII/cold war goals for US
- Stop the spread of communism
- policy of containment
- promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa
- wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
Goals Cold war for the 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 borders
- spread communism around the world
TUE:
- In the 1949 the western nations formed the north Atlantic treaty organization -> NATO
- to defense against Russia
Perestroika
- reconstruction of the Soviet Union
- more democracy
- free elections
Glasnost
- more openness of the Soviet government and for it's people
- free speech and press
countries with atomic bombs
- US
- Russia
- UK
- France
- China
- India
- Pakistan
- North Korea
- Israel?
- Iran Developing?
WED:
nuclear non-proliferation treaty 1970
- prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology
- promote cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy
- further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament
anti ballistic missile 1972-US/USSR
- limited weapons that would seek out and destroy nuclear weapons once launched
- in the 1980s president Ronald Reagan announces the Strategic Defense Initiative
- US withdraws in 2002 under George Bush
the START treaties
- strategic arms reduction treaty
- largest and most complex arms control treaty in history
- resulted in the removal of about 80 percent nuclear weapons
THU:
Work day
FRI:
work day
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