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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: • Untouched by the war • Strongest economy in the world • Only nation with an atomic bomb 2. Why were they superpowers? Soviet Union: • largest military in the world 3. What were the goals of each side? Soviet Union: United States: • • • • Rebuild Western Europe Access to raw materials and markets for industry • Expand democracy (contain communism) • • 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? • Never a face to face war? (Why?) • Politics of Brinkmanship • M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) • There were several ways to compete. • Symbolically • 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? • • • • 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? • • 1948: Soviet Union blockades Berlin Truman responds with the Berlin Airlift 5. What were the major events in the Cold War? • • 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 • • • • • North Korea invades US counter-attack (with UN) Enter the Dragon StalemateCeaseFire 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 • Eisenhower • 1956: Hungary • 1957: Sputnik • 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 • • French Indochina The Geneva Conference • Slow Escalation • The Gulf of Tonkin • The Tet Offensive • Nixon’s withdrawal • 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 • • • 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 • • 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? • • • 1989: revolutions in Eastern Europe Fall of the Berlin Wall 1991: dissolution of the Soviet Union Before and After