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... going to the brink of war without actually getting into war. To this end he advocated building more nuclear weapons. Dulles also believed in the concept of massive retaliation. This was the promise that the United States would use overwhelming force against the Soviet Union to settle conflicts. Fore ...
... going to the brink of war without actually getting into war. To this end he advocated building more nuclear weapons. Dulles also believed in the concept of massive retaliation. This was the promise that the United States would use overwhelming force against the Soviet Union to settle conflicts. Fore ...
26-1 The Eisenhower Era ppt
... going to the brink of war without actually getting into war. To this end he advocated building more nuclear weapons. Dulles also believed in the concept of massive retaliation. This was the promise that the United States would use overwhelming force against the Soviet Union to settle conflicts. Fore ...
... going to the brink of war without actually getting into war. To this end he advocated building more nuclear weapons. Dulles also believed in the concept of massive retaliation. This was the promise that the United States would use overwhelming force against the Soviet Union to settle conflicts. Fore ...
Unit 10 – The Cold War
... ownership & control of businesses glasnost-‐ “policy of openness” Allowed public par@cipa@on & ind ...
... ownership & control of businesses glasnost-‐ “policy of openness” Allowed public par@cipa@on & ind ...
Reagan.1985-Geneva Summit
... government. In 1983, Reagan had called the Soviet Union “an evil empire”, and his numerous foreign policy and defense speeches commonly reiterated that belief. In 1985 however, the deaths of Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, and a short month later, his successor, Konstantin Chernenko, elevated a younge ...
... government. In 1983, Reagan had called the Soviet Union “an evil empire”, and his numerous foreign policy and defense speeches commonly reiterated that belief. In 1985 however, the deaths of Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, and a short month later, his successor, Konstantin Chernenko, elevated a younge ...
Section 2: War in Europe
... Europe after World War II. The Truman administration wanted strong, stable democracies in Europe to prevent totalitarianism and to provide a market to sell U.S. products. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, on the other hand, wanted control of Eastern Europe to protect against another invasion from the we ...
... Europe after World War II. The Truman administration wanted strong, stable democracies in Europe to prevent totalitarianism and to provide a market to sell U.S. products. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, on the other hand, wanted control of Eastern Europe to protect against another invasion from the we ...
Global Imapact of World War II
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
OCR GCSE MWH Student Book Ch 2
... In this speech, Truman let it be known that the USA was prepared to give help to any country under threat from communism. What form of help would there be for countries under threat from communism? Would Truman send troops into trouble-spots? This would be an act of hostility and would certainly lea ...
... In this speech, Truman let it be known that the USA was prepared to give help to any country under threat from communism. What form of help would there be for countries under threat from communism? Would Truman send troops into trouble-spots? This would be an act of hostility and would certainly lea ...
Global Impact of World War II
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
Peace agreements made prior to the end of World War II:
... -Germany would be divided into 4 zones (occupied by the Allied powers: Britain, USA, Russia, and France) -The capital of Germany, Berlin, would also be divided into 4 parts. - A Democratic government would be installed in West Germany and West Berlin. -War crime tribunals would be held at the end of ...
... -Germany would be divided into 4 zones (occupied by the Allied powers: Britain, USA, Russia, and France) -The capital of Germany, Berlin, would also be divided into 4 parts. - A Democratic government would be installed in West Germany and West Berlin. -War crime tribunals would be held at the end of ...
After WWII
... • Already politically independent • But economically dependent – Foreign investment from West – Relied on exports and world markets ...
... • Already politically independent • But economically dependent – Foreign investment from West – Relied on exports and world markets ...
cold_war - Cobb Learning
... The tension and rivalry between the USA and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) was described as the Cold War (1945-1990). ...
... The tension and rivalry between the USA and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) was described as the Cold War (1945-1990). ...
Chapter 20 Sec 1
... The Cold War Spreads (cont.) • During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the United States blockaded a fleet of Soviet ships carrying nuclear missiles to Cuba. The threat of nuclear war was averted when the Soviets turned back their fleet and the United States agreed not to invade Cuba. ...
... The Cold War Spreads (cont.) • During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the United States blockaded a fleet of Soviet ships carrying nuclear missiles to Cuba. The threat of nuclear war was averted when the Soviets turned back their fleet and the United States agreed not to invade Cuba. ...
Totalitarianism: a government that takes total, centralized state
... Police Terror: Dictators started to use Terror as their weapon for totalitarianism Great Purge: name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Jospeh Stalin during the late 1930s, or basically the campaign of terror. It was directed to eliminate ...
... Police Terror: Dictators started to use Terror as their weapon for totalitarianism Great Purge: name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Jospeh Stalin during the late 1930s, or basically the campaign of terror. It was directed to eliminate ...
Global Impact of WWII
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
Global Impact of WWII.ppt
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
Global Impact of WWII
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
Global Impact of WWII
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
... after the war. The USA, the world’s richest and most powerful country, suffered 400,000 deaths, but its cities and factories remained intact. The USSR had at least 50 times as many fatalities and many Soviet cities were demolished. Despite the destruction, the USSR was a superpower in the decades af ...
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... going to the brink of war without actually getting into war. To this end he advocated building more nuclear weapons. Dulles also believed in the concept of massive retaliation. This was the promise that the United States would use overwhelming force against the Soviet Union to settle conflicts. Fore ...
... going to the brink of war without actually getting into war. To this end he advocated building more nuclear weapons. Dulles also believed in the concept of massive retaliation. This was the promise that the United States would use overwhelming force against the Soviet Union to settle conflicts. Fore ...
Cold War
... The Berlin Airlift could be called the first battle of the Cold War. It was when western countries delivered much needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union. After World War II At the end of World War II the country of Ger ...
... The Berlin Airlift could be called the first battle of the Cold War. It was when western countries delivered much needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union. After World War II At the end of World War II the country of Ger ...
Hub-date 1968
... did not begin to fade. •By the end of May, ten million people would be on strike. ...
... did not begin to fade. •By the end of May, ten million people would be on strike. ...
The Cold War Begins
... The Soviet Union threatened rocket attacks on France and Great Britain Eisenhower threatened to use “everything in the bucket” (including nuclear weapons) against the USSR if they attacked Britain and/or France Britain and France backed off at Eisenhower’s request ...
... The Soviet Union threatened rocket attacks on France and Great Britain Eisenhower threatened to use “everything in the bucket” (including nuclear weapons) against the USSR if they attacked Britain and/or France Britain and France backed off at Eisenhower’s request ...
Cold War
... alliance was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime. 6. This aid program was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos." ...
... alliance was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime. 6. This aid program was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos." ...
Cold War Review: Origins PPT
... • )The only general I know of who has won (and deservedly so) the Nobel Prize for Peace • )Marshall said that the US would assist “the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.” )Ernest Bevin and F ...
... • )The only general I know of who has won (and deservedly so) the Nobel Prize for Peace • )Marshall said that the US would assist “the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.” )Ernest Bevin and F ...
The Cold War World: A US Perspective 1945
... comfortable feeling in times of fear) and incapable of producing a take over of Eastern Europe, facilitating the takeover of Chinese communism and developing Nuclear weapons. • These were not new concepts to America who had similar bouts of hypernationalism during the first world war and even i ...
... comfortable feeling in times of fear) and incapable of producing a take over of Eastern Europe, facilitating the takeover of Chinese communism and developing Nuclear weapons. • These were not new concepts to America who had similar bouts of hypernationalism during the first world war and even i ...
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947–1991 is common. It was termed as ""cold"" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan that the two sides supported. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences: the former being a single-party Marxist–Leninist state operating planned economy and controlled press while professing state atheism and owning exclusively the right to establish and govern communities, and the latter being a capitalist state with generally free elections and press, which also granted freedom of religion and freedom of association to its citizens. A self-proclaimed neutral bloc arose with the Non-Aligned Movement founded by Egypt, India, Indonesia and Yugoslavia; this faction rejected association with either the US-led West or the Soviet-led East. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat but they each armed heavily in preparation for a possible all-out nuclear world war. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that deterred an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to total destruction of the attacker: the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD). Aside from the development of the two sides' nuclear arsenals, and deployment of conventional military forces, the struggle for dominance was expressed via proxy wars around the globe, psychological warfare, massive propaganda campaigns and espionage, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race.The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. The USSR consolidated its control over the states of the Eastern Bloc while the United States began a strategy of global containment to challenge Soviet power, extending military and financial aid to the countries of Western Europe (for example, supporting the anti-Communist side in the Greek Civil War) and creating the NATO alliance. The Berlin Blockade (1948–49) was the first major crisis of the Cold War.With victory of the Communist side in the Chinese Civil War and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950–53), the conflict expanded. The USSR and USA competed for influence in Latin America and decolonizing states of Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was stopped by the Soviets. The expansion and escalation sparked more crises, such as the Suez Crisis (1956), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Following this last crisis a new phase began that saw the Sino-Soviet split complicate relations within the Communist sphere while US allies, particularly France, demonstrated greater independence of action. The USSR crushed the 1968 Prague Spring liberalization program in Czechoslovakia, and the Vietnam War (1955–1975) ended with a defeat of the US-backed Republic of South Vietnam, prompting further adjustments.By the 1970s, both sides had become interested in accommodations to create a more stable and predictable international system, inaugurating a period of détente that saw Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the US opening relations with the People's Republic of China as a strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union. Détente collapsed at the end of the decade with the Soviet war in Afghanistan beginning in 1979.The early 1980s were another period of elevated tension, with the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (1983), and the ""Able Archer"" NATO military exercises (1983). The United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, at a time when the communist state was already suffering from economic stagnation. In the mid-1980s, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika (""reorganization"", 1987) and glasnost (""openness"", c. 1985) and ended Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. Pressures for national independence grew stronger in Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Gorbachev meanwhile refused to use Soviet troops to bolster the faltering Warsaw Pact regimes as had occurred in the past. The result in 1989 was a wave of revolutions that peacefully (with the exception of the Romanian Revolution) overthrew all of the Communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union itself lost control and was banned following an abortive coup attempt in August 1991. This in turn led to the formal dissolution of the USSR in December 1991 and the collapse of Communist regimes in other countries such as Mongolia, Cambodia and South Yemen. The United States remained as the world's only superpower.The Cold War and its events have left a significant legacy, and it is often referred to in popular culture, especially in media featuring themes of espionage (such as the internationally successful James Bond film series) and the threat of nuclear warfare.