BIPOLAR WORLDCold War World

Essential Questions Compare & contrast capitalism &

communism as political systems & as economic systems.

Identify how Cold War consumerism & the Truman Doctrine in the ultimate defeat of communism.

Examine the division of Germany in terms of potential for future confrontation b/w the U.S. & the Soviets

Examine the Proxy War in Korea in terms of past and future implications.

Capitalism vs. Communism

CAPITALISM U.S. Ideology

Liberalism Property rights Free market Welfare State

COMMUNISM: Khrushchev’s

Reform Relaxation of

terror Economic growth

Command Economy

In a Command Economy, the government  controls all factors of production. 

Examples of the Command Economy w

ere  the Stalin’s ”5 Year Plans” and  Mao’s “The Great Leap Forward” 

The government decides what items 

will be made by whom, and to whom they would be sold and at what price.

The Soviet Union had a Command

Economy

Global Communism

Soviet Strategies Military parity

[U.S.] National

liberations > through COMINTERN

U.S. Strategy:Truman

Doctrine

Containment

Truman Doctrine

Europe Divided

EAST & WEST GERMANY > 1949 West Germany:

very prosperous > subsidized by Western nations

East Germany: Very poor > population only 19M Many escaped to the west BERLIN WALL & Border fortified

to prevent escape

Division of Germany

Nuclear Arms Race

NATO & Warsaw Pact

Created arms race 1960s Soviets achieve

parity 1970s

Both sides acquire

MAD > Mutually Assured Destruction

Cold War Turns “Hot”[PROXY WAR]

KOREA:Divided at

38th ParallelN. Korea

invaded S. U.N. intervention

China enters war

Cease fire 1953 at 38th Parallel

YALU RIVER

Cold War Turns “Hot”

CUBA: Castro

overthrew Batista Regime 1959

Expropriated U.S. property

Killed /exiled opponents

U.S. embargo > sugar

Soviets bolster economy Bay of Pigs >

fiasco 1961 Soviets place

ICBMs Cuban Missile

Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

Soviet ICBMs in Cuba > 1962 Kennedy response

Naval quarantine to stop shipments

U.N. oversaw removal Soviet response

Backed down & Capitulated U.S. promise

not to ‘overthrow’ Castro

Globalization of Containment

Creation of SEATO Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Counterpart of NATO

Eisenhower’s DOMINO THEORY Fear that if one country [S.E. Asia]

fell to communism the rest would follow.

Colonial Liberation : PhilippinesPhilippine independence:

July 4, 1946U.S. maintained military basesWielded influence in politicsSoviets identified this as U.S.

imperialism

Bandung Conference 1955

Asian & African discuss NON-ALIGNMENT Countries do not align with with

either superpower Jawaharlal Nehru {India}

articulated non-alignment Bandung failed to form united

front against the superpowers

Political Dangers of Superpower Intervention Both used military / economic aide

to influence newly emerged nations Intrusion hindered democracy in

developing nations Support strained relationships with

neighbors

Cold War Societies

Domestic Containment Female Liberation Black Nationalism Cold War Consumerism

Domestic Containment & Feminism

Consumerism

Domestic Containment

Red Scare: U.S. families as defense

against infiltration McCarthyism [Witch Hunts]

Violation of constitutional rights Women’s dissatisfaction

Betty Freidan Women’s Liberation

Used Marxist terms to identify female circumstances

Black Nationalism

Marley’s music & Marcus Garvey influenced

M.L.K. influenced by Gandhi U.S.S.R. used it to expose

weaknesses of U.S. capitalism Rosa Parks sparked the revolution

1955

Cold War Consumerism

Weakened the Soviet positionCould not match consumerism of

WestWestern European economic boom

vs. Eastern European slow growthBerlin > virtual contrastKhrushchev’s visit [U.S.] humanized

both sides

Enduring Question

Why was the U.S. ultimately successful emerging from the Cold War as the undisputed Super Power?

What evidence can we find that illustrates the fact that the Russians may be down but they certainly are not OUT?