Transcript Cold War DBQ Essay

COLD WAR ESSAY
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The Early
Cold War:
1947-1970
Brinkmanship
The Policy of threatening to go
to war as a response to
enemy aggression.
Put this
definition on
the back of
your map.
You want a
piece of This?!?
Examples of Brinkmanship and the
Cold War
Both the USA and the USSR wanted to avoid an all out
Nuclear War. Instead of fighting directly, they paid others
to fight for them, and then continued a kind of global
game of “Chicken”. The following events are examples
of when the two sides almost committed to total war, but
then pulled back at the last minute and instead did
something clever to stay in the game without losing face.
•The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
•The Korean War
•The Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin
Blockade
& Airlift
1948-49
Russians try to claim West Berlin once
and for all by starving them out. Water,
power are cut. Ground transport is
closed.
Americans fly supplies to the people of West
Berlin for almost a year.
Eventually Russia gives up and opens roads and
utility lines again….until next time….
Please look at a map and add the Berlin Blockade
and Air Lift.
Cold War Map- Berlin
Blockade and Airlift
• Choose a symbol to represent the Berlin
Blockade and Airlift and put it on the small map of
Berlin (not Germany) on your map.
• In your map key (on the Left), indicate that your
symbol represents the Berlin Blockade and
Airlift.
• On the back of this paper explain what the Berlin
Blockade and Airlift was.
• Put the Berlin Blockade and Airlift on the time line
in 1948 - 49
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't
De-Stalinization
invite us to come
Program
to see you. Whether
you like it our not, history is on our
side. We will bury you. -- 1956
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
The confrontation began on October 14,
1962, when U.S. reconnaissance
photographs taken by an American U-2
spy plane revealed missile bases being
built in Cuba, in response to similar U.S.
bases built at the Turkish-Soviet border.
After a tense confrontation on
October 28, 1962, both U.S.
President John F. Kennedy and
Soviet General Secretary Nikita
Khrushchev, with the intercession of
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant,
agreed to remove their respective
nuclear missiles. This is as close as
we have ever come to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Cold War Map- Cuban Missile
Crisis
• Choose a symbol to represent the Cuban Missile
Crisis and put it on Cuba on your map.
• In your map key (on the Left), indicate that your
symbol represents the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• On the back of this paper explain what the Cuban
Missile Crisis was.
• Put the Cuban Missile Crisis on the time line in
1962
Mao’s Communist Revolution:
1949
China Becomes Communist in spite of
Western intervention
The Korean War: A “Police
Action” (1950-1953)
If Korea becomes Communist, who else will
follow? If all the world becomes Communist,
who will America trade with?
China
38th
Parallel
After WWII Korea was split (along the 38th
parallel), just like Berlin and Germany between
the US and the USSR. North Korea invaded
South Korea to unify their nation with Russian
support.
Americans (as a Member of the UN) get
involved to stop the advancement of
Communism. They push the N. Koreans far
back into N. Korea. This brings in the Chinese
who do not want Capitalist neighbors
"Domino Theory"
After countless deaths and destruction, the two
sides leave where they started, Communists in
the North and Capitalists in the South. The
country is still divided along the 38th parallel.
Propaganda
Add Propaganda to the Back of your Cold
War Map
Propaganda- an advertisement that attempts to
spread ideas or promote a cause
Cold War Propaganda was mostly about
controlling information. Governments only
wanted their people to know certain things
about what was going on in the war. They
also wanted to make sure they had public
support, so they tried to guarantee victories for
every contest, or at least tried to scare people
into wanting to continue the fight.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Maintaining Communism, especially when it wasn’t working well,
was all about controlling communications. Soviet citizens wouldn’t
rebel to seek a Different life if they didn’t know that life could be
different.
Radio Free Europe was an attempt to communicate with the people
of Russia. It broadcast western music and propaganda to Russia,
bearing the message of the West: “Democracy and Capitalism are
Better…”
Get out a half sheet of paper
(you can share with a friend)
and label it Propaganda.
As you listen to the song
Russians by Sting, think about
the message he is trying to
give. Is this Propaganda or
Anti Propaganda? Explain.