The Cold War
... • Occupied the largest country in the world, 3rd largest population, & the 2nd largest economy • Had military and space technology, a worldwide spy network (the KGB), & one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the world ...
... • Occupied the largest country in the world, 3rd largest population, & the 2nd largest economy • Had military and space technology, a worldwide spy network (the KGB), & one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the world ...
The Cold War
... • Occupied the largest country in the world, 3rd largest population, & the 2nd largest economy • Had military and space technology, a worldwide spy network (the KGB), & one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the world ...
... • Occupied the largest country in the world, 3rd largest population, & the 2nd largest economy • Had military and space technology, a worldwide spy network (the KGB), & one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the world ...
Note - Canada and the Cold War
... spoke about an Atlantic Defence alliance. Canada’s Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, who became Canada’s leader after Mackenzie King’s retirement in 1948, was also a strong supporter of such an alliance. On April 4, 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed. Twelve nations signe ...
... spoke about an Atlantic Defence alliance. Canada’s Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, who became Canada’s leader after Mackenzie King’s retirement in 1948, was also a strong supporter of such an alliance. On April 4, 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed. Twelve nations signe ...
Holocaust, Cold War, Powerpoint
... • In 1948, the western allies wanted to reunite Germany but the Soviets disagreed • The Soviets declared their section of the country, East Germany, the reunited sections became West Germany • Even the capital of Berlin in East Germany was divided into east and west ...
... • In 1948, the western allies wanted to reunite Germany but the Soviets disagreed • The Soviets declared their section of the country, East Germany, the reunited sections became West Germany • Even the capital of Berlin in East Germany was divided into east and west ...
Cold War SS6h7bc power point
... • In 1948, the western allies wanted to reunite Germany but the Soviets disagreed • The Soviets declared their section of the country, East Germany, the reunited sections became West Germany • Even the capital of Berlin in East Germany was divided into east and west ...
... • In 1948, the western allies wanted to reunite Germany but the Soviets disagreed • The Soviets declared their section of the country, East Germany, the reunited sections became West Germany • Even the capital of Berlin in East Germany was divided into east and west ...
Unit: The United States in an Age of Global Crisis
... Soviet Union dissolved as the Cold War took hold. As communism spread through the efforts of the Soviet Union and later China, the United States worked to strengthen its influence in Western Europe and Asia by providing economic aid and building strategic alliances. A growing anxiety about the sprea ...
... Soviet Union dissolved as the Cold War took hold. As communism spread through the efforts of the Soviet Union and later China, the United States worked to strengthen its influence in Western Europe and Asia by providing economic aid and building strategic alliances. A growing anxiety about the sprea ...
The Cold War A Divided Europe Following the war, the Soviet Union
... In 1985, a progressive leader named Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR. HE al so recognized that the Soviet economy was failing. He knew that his country could not afford to keep up with Regan’s military programs. He made several changes. His programs allowed more political openness and per ...
... In 1985, a progressive leader named Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR. HE al so recognized that the Soviet economy was failing. He knew that his country could not afford to keep up with Regan’s military programs. He made several changes. His programs allowed more political openness and per ...
Berlin Wall
... Marshall Plan) into Western zones and recovery came quickly. • In the Soviet zone, most of the valuable machinery and industrial resources were stripped from their zone and taken to Russia as reparations. • During the war, the United States had provided much needed aid to the Soviet Union through th ...
... Marshall Plan) into Western zones and recovery came quickly. • In the Soviet zone, most of the valuable machinery and industrial resources were stripped from their zone and taken to Russia as reparations. • During the war, the United States had provided much needed aid to the Soviet Union through th ...
Summary: The Cold War
... democratic government. They vote for their leaders. Soviets lived under communism. They did not choose their leaders. Soviets did not have much freedom. By 1947, the Soviet Union and the United States were in a Cold War. This was a war of words and ideas. When World War II ended, the Allies shared c ...
... democratic government. They vote for their leaders. Soviets lived under communism. They did not choose their leaders. Soviets did not have much freedom. By 1947, the Soviet Union and the United States were in a Cold War. This was a war of words and ideas. When World War II ended, the Allies shared c ...
World War II - The Northwest School
... • Focus was on Post-War Europe – how to handle it? • Differing agendas - Churchill wanted democratic elections in Europe - Roosevelt wanted Soviet support against Japan - Stalin wanted increased land and power ...
... • Focus was on Post-War Europe – how to handle it? • Differing agendas - Churchill wanted democratic elections in Europe - Roosevelt wanted Soviet support against Japan - Stalin wanted increased land and power ...
WWII Conferences
... would be granted sphere of influence in Manchuria Germany would be divided into different occupation zones but Big Three would enact common policies and plans in each zone Soviet Union entitled to compensation for destruction of property and industry that occurred on Soviet territory during the ...
... would be granted sphere of influence in Manchuria Germany would be divided into different occupation zones but Big Three would enact common policies and plans in each zone Soviet Union entitled to compensation for destruction of property and industry that occurred on Soviet territory during the ...
One World Into two
... and economic assistance to prevent communism from taking hold in Greece and Turkey, which in turn lessened the Communist threat in the entire Middle East. The Marshall Plan brought relief to devastated European countries, ushering in an economic recovery that made them less susceptible to communism ...
... and economic assistance to prevent communism from taking hold in Greece and Turkey, which in turn lessened the Communist threat in the entire Middle East. The Marshall Plan brought relief to devastated European countries, ushering in an economic recovery that made them less susceptible to communism ...
Iron Curtain: Division of Europe
... The Americans used these aircrafts, which were recently used to bomb Berlin, to help out the Berliners, the former enemy Western Europeans were very honored by this act ...
... The Americans used these aircrafts, which were recently used to bomb Berlin, to help out the Berliners, the former enemy Western Europeans were very honored by this act ...
1. The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to do
... B. The communists gained control over most of Western Europe. C. Japan and Germany became dominant military powers in their regions. D. The Soviet Union emerged as an international superpower 20. These events of the Cold War are examples of what? ∙ Blockade of Berlin ∙ Operation of the Berlin Airlif ...
... B. The communists gained control over most of Western Europe. C. Japan and Germany became dominant military powers in their regions. D. The Soviet Union emerged as an international superpower 20. These events of the Cold War are examples of what? ∙ Blockade of Berlin ∙ Operation of the Berlin Airlif ...
termination of cold war
... The eeight member countries of the Warsaw Pact pledged the mutual def ense of any member who would be attacked. Relations among the treaty signatories were based upon mutual non-intervention in the internal affa irs of the member countries, respect for national sovereignty, and politica l independen ...
... The eeight member countries of the Warsaw Pact pledged the mutual def ense of any member who would be attacked. Relations among the treaty signatories were based upon mutual non-intervention in the internal affa irs of the member countries, respect for national sovereignty, and politica l independen ...
The United Nations and the Marshall Plan
... threat was not confined to Europe. In Asia at the end of WWII, China, Korea and Vietnam tottered on the brink of communist domination. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman proposed the “Truman Doctrine” warning the Soviet Union, that the United States would act to halt the spread of Communism wherever ...
... threat was not confined to Europe. In Asia at the end of WWII, China, Korea and Vietnam tottered on the brink of communist domination. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman proposed the “Truman Doctrine” warning the Soviet Union, that the United States would act to halt the spread of Communism wherever ...
The Cold War in Brief
... balance of power, weakening Europe and leaving Russia and the United States of America as global super-powers, with massive military strength; everyone else was second. However, the wartime alliance was not an easy one, and by 1943 each side was thinking about the state of Post-war Europe. Russia ‘l ...
... balance of power, weakening Europe and leaving Russia and the United States of America as global super-powers, with massive military strength; everyone else was second. However, the wartime alliance was not an easy one, and by 1943 each side was thinking about the state of Post-war Europe. Russia ‘l ...
The Cold War Competition between the United States and the
... - Cuban Missile Crisis. During the arms buildup, the closest that the US and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. When Cuba became allies with the Soviet Union, the Soviets began moving missiles into Cuba, which is close to Florida (about 90 miles). The United S ...
... - Cuban Missile Crisis. During the arms buildup, the closest that the US and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. When Cuba became allies with the Soviet Union, the Soviets began moving missiles into Cuba, which is close to Florida (about 90 miles). The United S ...
25-2 THE IRON CURTAIN AND NATO
... this period the United States and the Soviet Union were close to war several times. In April 1949, the United States entered into an agreement with Canada and several European countries. The North Atlantic Treaty, as the agreement was called, provided that an armed attack against any treaty nation w ...
... this period the United States and the Soviet Union were close to war several times. In April 1949, the United States entered into an agreement with Canada and several European countries. The North Atlantic Treaty, as the agreement was called, provided that an armed attack against any treaty nation w ...
1. Was the Cold War an inevitable end of World War II? Explain. Yes
... and how Germany would be treated. 2. What was decided at each of the following: Casablanca (January 1943) – (you must remember this . . . ) Meeting of Allies where they agreed to nothing but an unconditional surrender of the Axis powers Teheran (November 1943) - US< Britain, Russia decided to launch ...
... and how Germany would be treated. 2. What was decided at each of the following: Casablanca (January 1943) – (you must remember this . . . ) Meeting of Allies where they agreed to nothing but an unconditional surrender of the Axis powers Teheran (November 1943) - US< Britain, Russia decided to launch ...
Rise of the Modern State System
... the United States and the Soviet Union. • A new kind of arms race began, new alliances were formed. • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – the alliance of Western Europe and North America. • However, it is interesting to note that the post war period also saw the creation of the United Nation ...
... the United States and the Soviet Union. • A new kind of arms race began, new alliances were formed. • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – the alliance of Western Europe and North America. • However, it is interesting to note that the post war period also saw the creation of the United Nation ...
-The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and
... -Although the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France were allied against the Axis powers during the last four years of World War II, disagreements existed both during and after the conflict on many topics, particularly over the shape of the post-war world. (Spodeck, 651) -At the war's c ...
... -Although the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France were allied against the Axis powers during the last four years of World War II, disagreements existed both during and after the conflict on many topics, particularly over the shape of the post-war world. (Spodeck, 651) -At the war's c ...
United States and Europe after World War II
... the peace that would follow the war. At the Yalta Conference, they agreed that Germany should be divided into occupation zones controlled by the Allies. Plans were also made to establish the United Nations, an organization that would work to keep the peace in future years. ...
... the peace that would follow the war. At the Yalta Conference, they agreed that Germany should be divided into occupation zones controlled by the Allies. Plans were also made to establish the United Nations, an organization that would work to keep the peace in future years. ...
Foreign Policy After the Cold War Powerpoint Notes
... • Allowed open criticisms of the Soviet government, worked to give freedom of the press ...
... • Allowed open criticisms of the Soviet government, worked to give freedom of the press ...
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.