Transcript Cold War Conflicts

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Origins of Cold War Conflict
Notes
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THE COLD WAR!
BR: The Cold War Chronology
1945-1990
1945
The U.N. is
established
1948
Berlin airlift
begins
1949
China
becomes
communist
1950
The Korean
War begins
1954
The Communists
defeat France in
Vietnam
1959
Castro creates
communist gov’t in
Cuba
1957
The Soviets Launch
Sputnik
The Cold War
A conflict between the United States and
the Soviet Union from 1945 until 1991
Neither nation directly confronts each
other on the battlefield
Dominates global affairs and US foreign
policy
The Yalta Conference
 At
the end of WWII the Big 3 met to discuss the postwar world. Some view this as the beginning of the
big storm that would cool into the Cold War
Capitalism Cont’d
Communism vs. Capitalism
Communism
Capitalism
State controlled
Private controlled
property & economy property
Totalitarian regime Supply & demand
Elections
 Karl
Marx & Fredrick Engels
 FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, TO
EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEED!”
-KARL MARX
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1848 Communist Manifesto
Detailed the struggle of the classes
A philosophy to improve equality for all!
United Nations
intended
to promote peace
Became an arena where the
two superpowers competed
and spread their influence
Former Allies Clash
Both
strong enough to influence
world events
Stalin resentful of Allies’ delay
attacking Germany & of atomic
bomb secrecy
The United Nations 1945
Potsdam Conference
Bargaining
Soviets wanted reparations from
Germany
Truman wanted nations to have
right to self-determination
Potsdam continued…
Soviets Tighten Grip on Eastern Europe
 Soviet
Union had emerged from WWII as an
enormous economic and military power
 Stalin installed communist governments in satellite
nations
 Albania,
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and
Poland
 In
early 1946, Stalin gave a speech announcing
capitalism and communism were incompatible and
another war was inevitable
Containment
Truman:
“Stop babying the Soviets.”
Containment: taking measures to
prevent any extension of communist
rule to other countries
Became Truman’s foreign policy
mission
Soviet Satellite Nations
Containment
“Iron Curtain”: The division in Europe
Democratic Western Europe
Communist Eastern Europe
Stalin
believed these words were a call
for war
BRINKMANSHIP!
 is
the practice of pushing
dangerous events to the
verge of—or to the brink of—
disaster in order to achieve
the most advantageous
outcome (forcing the
opponent to back down and
make concessions)
 During the Cold War, the
threat of nuclear force was
often used as such an
escalating measure
DUCK & COVER VIDEO
NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
Mutual
Assured Destruction (MAD)
assumes that each side has enough
nuclear weaponry to destroy the
other side
Proponents of MAD as part of U.S. and
USSR strategic doctrine believed that
nuclear war could best be prevented
if neither side could expect to survive
a full-scale nuclear exchange
Whoever shoots first, dies second.
Truman Doctrine
Doctrine: “It must be the policy of
the United States to support free peoples who
are resisting COMMUNISM”
Truman asks Congress for $400 million
Truman
The Marshall Plan
Sec
of State, George Marshall, proposed
the US would send aid to all European
nations who needed it
Over the next 4 years, 16 countries
received $13 billion in aid
Communism
was losing its appeal;
democracy looked good
Occupation Zones
Clashing
over German unification
Britain, France and US decided to
combine their three zones into one
nation
Western part of Berlin was surrounded
by Soviet-occupied territory
Stalin closed all routes into West Berlin
No fuel or food could reach the city—
only enough to last two weeks
Berlin Airlift
In
an attempt to break the blockade,
Americans and British started the Berlin
Airlift
Fly food and supplies into West Berlin
For 327 days, planes took off and landed
every few minutes, around the clock
277,000 flights
2.3 million tons of supplies
Fuel, food, Christmas presents
American prestige lifted; Soviets lift the
blockade
West Germany vs. East Germany
The Berlin Airlift
 June
1948-May 1949
NATO Alliance
The
Berlin Blockade increased fear of Soviet
Aggression
North Atlantic Treaty Organization:
military support pledged to one another (other
countries joined subsequently)
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Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the US and
Canada enter into a defensive military alliance
Cold War Conflicts
 Communist
takeover in China
 Korean
War
 Red Scare in the U.S.
 Suez War
 Hungarian Uprising
 U.S.
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vs. U.S.S.R.
Space Race
Arms Race
U-2 Incident
Cuban Missile Crisis
The
Butter Battle is a Dr. Seuss book
that attempts to create parallels
between a mythological Seuss world
and the Cold War.
Video
Folder
 What
does the wall symbolize?
 IRON CURTAIN (OR BERLIN WALL)
 What is the difference between the Yooks & the
Zooks?
 THE WAY THEY BUTTER THEIR BREAD &
COLOR=NOTHING THAT REALLY MATTERS!!!!
 Who are the Yooks symbolizing?
 DEMOCRACIES
 Who are the Zooks symbolizing?
 COMMUNISTS
 What
is the competition for better weapons
symbolizing?
 NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
 Why do you think both sides would stab fun at
their enemy?
 MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION &
BRINKMANSHIP-NO ONE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO
DO ANYTHING
 What does the world’s most mighty weapon the
“Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo” symbolize?
 ATOMIC/HYDROGEN BOMB
Cold War “Comic Book”
Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days-UN Security
Council video clip
Fall of the Berlin Wall from NBC