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Cold War
Beginings
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Main ThemesSoviet Union
& Communism
US & Western Democracies/
CapitalismMain Themes:
1. Global Bi-Polarization [i.e. NATO vs. Warsaw Pact, Berlin Wall]
2. Containment (“proxy wars,” Economic Aid, military and political intervention, Economic Aid, Propaganda, political freedom)
3. Arms Race [nuclear escalation]
4. Space Race
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Do Now:
• How did the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences contributed to the emergence of a “Cold War”?
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Truman Doctrine [1947]
1.The U. S. should support free peoples throughout the world who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities or outside pressures…We must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
2.The U.S. gave Greece & Turkey $400 million in aid.
Containment
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Bipolarization
The “Iron Curtain”
From Stettin in the Balkans, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lies the ancient capitals of Central and Eastern Europe. -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1946
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Containment
1. Marshall Plan 1948
“European Recovery Program.”
1.The U. S. should provide aid to all European nations that need it. This move is not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.
2.$12.5 billion of US aid to Western Europe extended to Eastern Europe & USSR, [but this was rejected].
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Berlin Blockade & Airlift (1948-49)
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1949: Year of Fear
• Nationalists lose the Civil War in China.
• Soviets explode their first atomic bomb.
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1949- The Soviet Union explodes its own nuclear weapon.
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United States
Belgium
Britain
Canada
Denmark
France
Iceland
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
1952: Greece & Turkey
1955: West Germany
1983: Spain
Bipolarization
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Warsaw Pact (1955)
} U. S. S. R.
} Albania
} Bulgaria
} Czechoslovakia
} East Germany
} Hungary
} Poland
} Rumania
Bipolarization
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Premier Nikita Khrushchev
About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist.If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don'tinvite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you. -- 1956
De-Stalinization Program
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The Korean War: and the Domino Theory (1950-1953)
Syngman Rhee
Kim Il-Sung
Containment + Bi-Polarization
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Key Events
• June, 1950—North Korea (communist) invades South Korea (non-communist)
• UN supports a police action to protect South Korea
• Douglas MacArthur, UN commander, makes a brilliant landing at Inchon and pushes the North Koreans back
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Key Events (continued)
• MacArthur continues to push North, provoking China’s entry into the war.
• A bloody stalemate develops• Truman wants a negotiated peace,
MacArthur says “there is no substitute for victory” and begins to openly criticize Truman. Truman fires MacArthur.
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Key Events (continued)
• A cease-fire is agreed to in 1953 which places the border near the 38th parallel (as it was before the war).
• 40,000+ Americans and hundreds of thousands of Koreans and Chinese are killed.
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Sputnik I (1957)
The Russians have beaten America in space—they have the
technological edge!
Space Race
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The Suez Crisis: 1956-1957
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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The Hungarian Uprising: 1956
Imre Nagy, Hungarian
Prime Minister} Promised free
elections.
} This could lead to the end of communist rule in Hungary.
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U-2 Spy Incident (1960)
Col. Francis Gary Powers’ plane was
shot down over Soviet airspace.
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Paris, 1961
Khrushchev & JFK meet to discuss Berlin and nuclear proliferation. Khrushchev
thinks that JFK is young, inexperienced, and can be rolled.
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The Berlin Wall Goes Up (1961)
Checkpoint
Charlie
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Ich bin ein Berliner!
(1963)
President Kennedy tells Berliners that
the West is with them!
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Khruschev Embraces Castro,1961
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Bay of Pigs Debacle (1961)
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
We went eyeball-to-eyeball with the Russians, and the other man blinked!
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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Vietnam War: 1965-1973
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“Prague Spring” (1968)
Former Czech President, Alexander Dubček
Communism with a human face!
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“Prague Spring” Dashed!
Dissidents/playwrights arrested [like Vaclav Havel—future president of a
free Czech Republic].