Transcript The Cold War

The Cold War
1.
What were the major issues after World
War Two? How did the United States and
the rest of the world attempt to respond to
these issues?
Rebuilding Europe and Asia
Justice
Permanent Peace
The Middle East
Rebuilding ?
The Marshall Plan
Justice?
The Nuremburg Trials
Peace?
The United Nations
The Middle East?
Israel
2. Who were the two
superpowers after the war?
United States
Soviet Union
2. Why were they
superpowers?
United States:
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Untouched by the
war
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Strongest economy in
the world
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Only nation with an
atomic bomb
2. Why were they
superpowers?
Soviet Union:
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largest military in the
world
3. What were the goals of
each side?
Soviet Union:
United States:
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Rebuild Western Europe
Access to raw materials
and markets for industry
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Expand democracy
(contain communism)
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Rebuild itself and
Eastern Europe
Access to raw materials
and markets for industry
Expand communism(?)
Maintain national
security(?)
Discussion:
After examining the goals of
both sides in the Cold War,
can it be said that one was
better than the other?
4. How was the Cold War
fought?
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Never a face to face war? (Why?)
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Politics of Brinkmanship
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M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)
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There were several ways to compete.
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Symbolically
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Indirectly
4. How was the Cold War
fought?
The Arms Race
4. How was the Cold War
fought?
The Space Race
4. How was the Cold War
fought?
Even in the Olympics
5. What were the major
events in the Cold War?
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1940’s
1946: Kennan and
containment (preDomino Theory)
1946: “Iron Curtain”
speech
1947: Truman
Doctrine
5. What were the major
events in the Cold War?
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1948: Soviet Union
blockades Berlin
Truman responds
with the Berlin
Airlift
5. What were the major
events in the Cold War?
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1949: Communists took power in China
Despite US efforts to support the
Nationalists (Chiang Kaishek), the
Communists under Mao Zedong took over
the world’s most populated nation.
5. What were the major
events in the Cold War?
1949-53: the Korean War
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North Korea invades
US counter-attack
(with UN)
Enter the Dragon
StalemateCeaseFire Agreement
(pgs. 487/613)
5. What were the major
events in the Cold War?
1949: NATO vs. 1955: Warsaw Pact
1950’s -McCarthyism
5. What were the major
events in the Cold War?
1950’s
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Eisenhower
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1956: Hungary
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1957: Sputnik
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1959: The U2 Spy Plane Incident
5. What were the major
events in the Cold War?
Cuba
1959: Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro turned to communism
and to the Soviet Union
1961: Bay of Pigs
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
5. What were the major
events in the Cold War?
1965-75: Vietnam War
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French Indochina
The Geneva
Conference
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Slow Escalation
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The Gulf of Tonkin
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The Tet Offensive
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Nixon’s withdrawal
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Communist “victory”
6. What were the steps that led
to the end of the Cold War?
Nixon and détente
1972: visits China and
Soviet Union
SALT I Treaty
6. What were the steps that led
to the end of the Cold War?
Reagan
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1983: SDI “Star Wars”
1987: “tear down this
wall!” speech
INF Treaty
6. What were the steps that led
to the end of the Cold War?
Mikhail Gorbachev
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glasnost
perestroika
Discussion:
Who deserves most of the
credit for ending the Cold
War?
6. What were the steps that led
to the end of the Cold War?
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1989: revolutions in
Eastern Europe
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1991: dissolution of
the Soviet Union
Before and After