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Origins of the Cold War• Ideological Differences• Communism vs. Capitalism• Totalitarian vs. Democracy• WWII• 2nd Front – Sov Union felt “owed”• Potsdam – Stalin broke promise• A- Bomb - 1949• Destruction of Europe• Power Vacuum• End of Colonial Empires
Cold War Characteristics
• Indirect warfare of 2 Superpowers• Worldwide Alliance Systems
• Lasts 45 years • 1945-1991
• Tactics• Eco. Pressure• Propaganda• Subversion• Nuclear Intimidation
One fundamental US assumption: USSR seeks to expand and therefore poses a threat to the US.
Truman DoctrineAid to Greece &
Turkey / US Global Policeman
Marshall PlanRebuilding GermanyEco. Aid/ Military Presence
Telegram by Kennan “X”Containment
Alliance System
Warsaw Pact (1955)- Military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Bloc. Organized against
the perceived threat from NATO.
NATO (1949 )- If the Soviet Union attacked any European allies, it would be an attack on the US itself. First US peacetime military alliance
Intro Cold War Map Activity
• Directions:• Shade your Map: • NATO countries• Warsaw Pact countries
• Locate Berlin• Answer the questions and
consider the following:• What did the Western
Powers and the USSR do with Germany after the War? Why? • What is the significance of
the position of Berlin?