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· Cold war (1945-1990)
§ Between the US and Soviet Union
§ Economies, politics, surrogates and allies
§ Soviet Union and Eastern Block (Iron Curtain)
· To spread worldwide communism
§ US and Western Democracies
· “Containment” (stop from spreading)
§ Methodologies:
· Espionage
o Spying
o KGB vs. CIA
· Arms Race
o Nuclear escalation
§ MADD
· Mutually Absurd Death and Destruction
§ Insane to use
· Ideological Competition for the minds and hearts of Third World peoples
o Communist govt. and command economy vs. democratic govt. and capitalist economy
o Proxy wars
§ Sides
· USSR and US
§ “Iron Curtain”
· Yes and No
· West Germany and East Germany (physical wall)
· Emotional, psychological wall
§ Truman Doctrine (1947)
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· Turkey under pressure from the USSR for concessions in the Dardanelles
· “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”
o Truman doctrine says give money material and or men to stop spread of communism
· The U.S. gave Greece & Turkey &400 million in aid
· It worked!!!
§ Truman
· Good common sense
· President after FDR dies
· Uses nuclear weapon on Japan
§ Marshall Plan (1948)
· European Recovery Program
· Secretary of State George Marshall
· Give money to the countries who had been torn apart in WWII, to increase the economy
· &12.5 billion of US aid to Western Europe extended to Eastern Europe & USSR (rejected)
· Extremely successful!!
§ Post War Germany
· Divide it into 2 parts
o West (patrolled by US)
o East (controlled by USSR)
§ Berlin
· West and East Berlin
· USSR blocks Berlin
§ Berlin Blockade & Airlift
· Airplanes
o Drop supplies
· 1 full year
· WWIII if USSR shot down one of those planes
· USSR lifted blockade
§ The Arms Race
· The Soviet Union exploded its first Atomic bomb in 1949
o Espionage (spies got info)
· USSR got hold of German scientists
§ NATO
· Response by US troops
· Attack on any of the countries
§ Warsaw Pact
· Response USSR
· Attack on any of the countries
· Rebellion that goes against the USSR can invade the country and put it down
§ Premier Nikita Khrushchev
· Soviet Union leader
· US buries the USSR
§ 1949 China becomes communist country
· Maoism
o Factory works won’t lead it will be lead by the peasants
· Doesn’t have industries
· China has to catch up
§ Korean War
· Forgotten war
· After WWII Korea was divided
· Kim Il-Sung- north Korea leader, invades south to unite Korea
· US sent troops to stop
o Police action
· Cease Fire
· Demilitarized zone
· Domino Theory
o Nations will fall and then all will fall
§ Great sympathy for Jews
· Creation of Israel
· Homeland for the Jews
§ Hungarian Uprising
· Imre Nagy, Hungarian Prime Minister
· Promised free elections
· This could lead to the end of communist rule in Hungary
· USSR put it down with tanks
· Sputnik 1 (1957)
o Launched into space
o Soviet can launch a rocket and have it orbit the Earth
§ Tech edge too
o Space Race
§ Beat Russians, man on moon
o Public School emphasis on science
§ U-2 Spy Incident
· Plane, high altitudes and very fast
· High res camera
· US trying to find out the Soviet’s nuclear program
· Shot down, pilot Col. Francis Gary Powers
· Embarrassment to the US, USSR produced the pilot
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