Lesson 14: The Cold War
... to reshape the postwar world. Crucial among these was the Potsdam Conference in 1945, at which the Allies divided Germany into four zones, controlled by France, Britain, the U.S., and the USSR. Berlin, deep in the Soviet zone, was also divided among the four countries. During Potsdam, Truman informe ...
... to reshape the postwar world. Crucial among these was the Potsdam Conference in 1945, at which the Allies divided Germany into four zones, controlled by France, Britain, the U.S., and the USSR. Berlin, deep in the Soviet zone, was also divided among the four countries. During Potsdam, Truman informe ...
Cold War to Berlin Wall
... were in danger of falling to communists guerillas. The U.S. and other Western nations wished to stop communism from spreading because they saw it as an oppressive form of rule that quashed individual economic and personal freedoms. In response, Truman proposed a plan to provide military and economic ...
... were in danger of falling to communists guerillas. The U.S. and other Western nations wished to stop communism from spreading because they saw it as an oppressive form of rule that quashed individual economic and personal freedoms. In response, Truman proposed a plan to provide military and economic ...
Unit 7: Cold War to the Present
... nations where poor and oppressed populations were attracted to their ideas. ...
... nations where poor and oppressed populations were attracted to their ideas. ...
Cold War Study guide
... Germany New challenges included the role of U.S. military__ intervention, environmental__ challenges, and _global__ issues, including trade, jobs, disease, and energy ...
... Germany New challenges included the role of U.S. military__ intervention, environmental__ challenges, and _global__ issues, including trade, jobs, disease, and energy ...
Cold War The
... • He sent millions of serfs to prison camps in Siberia for not giving up their farms to the communist government. • Much like Hitler, he also “got rid of ” those who opposed his ideas. ...
... • He sent millions of serfs to prison camps in Siberia for not giving up their farms to the communist government. • Much like Hitler, he also “got rid of ” those who opposed his ideas. ...
Cold War
... • He sent millions of serfs to prison camps in Siberia for not giving up their farms to the communist government. • Much like Hitler, he also “got rid of” those who opposed his ideas. ...
... • He sent millions of serfs to prison camps in Siberia for not giving up their farms to the communist government. • Much like Hitler, he also “got rid of” those who opposed his ideas. ...
WARM UP Who was present at the Yalta Conference?
... • What two things did Russia promise the US at the conference? • What was the policy of the US toward communism after WWII? ...
... • What two things did Russia promise the US at the conference? • What was the policy of the US toward communism after WWII? ...
Chapter 18, Section 4
... actions, or secret operations, to weaken or overthrow governments unfriendly to the United States. One CIA action involved Iran. In 1953, the CIA convinced the Shah, or monarch, of Iran to get rid of a prime minister who was not friendly to the West. In 1954, the CIA took action in Guatemala. Eisenh ...
... actions, or secret operations, to weaken or overthrow governments unfriendly to the United States. One CIA action involved Iran. In 1953, the CIA convinced the Shah, or monarch, of Iran to get rid of a prime minister who was not friendly to the West. In 1954, the CIA took action in Guatemala. Eisenh ...
US Foreign Policy Since World War II
... Allied Powers after World War II The Cold War set the framework for 45 years after the end of World War II. It also influenced American domestic politics, foreign affairs, and the role of the government in the economy after 1945. ...
... Allied Powers after World War II The Cold War set the framework for 45 years after the end of World War II. It also influenced American domestic politics, foreign affairs, and the role of the government in the economy after 1945. ...
The Cold war
... After WWII, the differences between the US and the Soviet Union led the two sides to distrust one another. Stalin feared that the US would invade the USSR while they still had their armies in Germany. He decided not to give up the territories his army had conquered during the war. Instead, he made ...
... After WWII, the differences between the US and the Soviet Union led the two sides to distrust one another. Stalin feared that the US would invade the USSR while they still had their armies in Germany. He decided not to give up the territories his army had conquered during the war. Instead, he made ...
De-Stalinization File
... ◦ Secret police restricted, labor camps closed, more open political discussion allowed, and artists were given greater freedom ◦ Khrushchev moved Soviet foreign policy toward “peaceful coexistence” with the West ...
... ◦ Secret police restricted, labor camps closed, more open political discussion allowed, and artists were given greater freedom ◦ Khrushchev moved Soviet foreign policy toward “peaceful coexistence” with the West ...
The Cold War Era World War II destroyed cities, factories, harbors
... round-the-clock airlift supplying West Berliners with food. Finally, after a year, the Soviets backed off and allowed West Berlin to be free. Military Alliances: In 1949, the U.S., Canada, and nine Western European nations formed NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was an alliance ...
... round-the-clock airlift supplying West Berliners with food. Finally, after a year, the Soviets backed off and allowed West Berlin to be free. Military Alliances: In 1949, the U.S., Canada, and nine Western European nations formed NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was an alliance ...
Essay: Causes and Effects of the Cold War
... 5. The Cold War resulted in political problems all over the world Soviet Union/expansion, buffer zone 1. One cause of the Cold War was the Soviet Union’s desire to create a buffer zone. ...
... 5. The Cold War resulted in political problems all over the world Soviet Union/expansion, buffer zone 1. One cause of the Cold War was the Soviet Union’s desire to create a buffer zone. ...
CHAPTER 33 - THE WEST SINCE WORLD WAR II
... extraordinary changes both in Europe and the world it once dominated. The continent was permanently divided into two spheres, each dominated by a peripheral power: the west by the United States, the east by the Soviet Union. European countries which had held colonial empires since the Renaissance lo ...
... extraordinary changes both in Europe and the world it once dominated. The continent was permanently divided into two spheres, each dominated by a peripheral power: the west by the United States, the east by the Soviet Union. European countries which had held colonial empires since the Renaissance lo ...
US Cold WAR Choose the letter of the best answer - roadrunner-ush
... B. a communist government was established in South Korea. ...
... B. a communist government was established in South Korea. ...
The Cold War Divides the World
... More Than One “World” Third World Developing nations Often newly independent Nonaligned ...
... More Than One “World” Third World Developing nations Often newly independent Nonaligned ...
Unit 5 Vocabulary #1
... 10. Mandate - A type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after World War I. 11. Pan-Slavic Movement - A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Rus ...
... 10. Mandate - A type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after World War I. 11. Pan-Slavic Movement - A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Rus ...
The End of WWII
... WWII had grown more and more divisive—highlighting the differences between Western and Eastern powers. • Distrust, suspicion and tension grew and led to a conflict known as the Cold War. ...
... WWII had grown more and more divisive—highlighting the differences between Western and Eastern powers. • Distrust, suspicion and tension grew and led to a conflict known as the Cold War. ...
Images and Stories from the Cold War
... the communists and to help the Turkish government, which was under Soviet pressure. (Less than three years later, the Greek communists gave up their struggle). Truman thought that the spread of communism should be stopped. As poor countries would probably be tempted by communism, then the USA should ...
... the communists and to help the Turkish government, which was under Soviet pressure. (Less than three years later, the Greek communists gave up their struggle). Truman thought that the spread of communism should be stopped. As poor countries would probably be tempted by communism, then the USA should ...
Lesson 4 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 ...
Cold War Review Jeopardy - rivard
... -Kennedy/US came out of the crisis looking stronger than the USSR. -Khrushchev will be replaced by Brezhnev shortly after the crisis. -Cuba’s relationship with the US will be forever damaged, and Cuba will become dependent on the Soviets for support. -To do this day, the relations between the US and ...
... -Kennedy/US came out of the crisis looking stronger than the USSR. -Khrushchev will be replaced by Brezhnev shortly after the crisis. -Cuba’s relationship with the US will be forever damaged, and Cuba will become dependent on the Soviets for support. -To do this day, the relations between the US and ...
File
... Causes of the Cold War • U.S. support of Whites during Russian Revolution • During WWII, the Soviet Union and United States ...
... Causes of the Cold War • U.S. support of Whites during Russian Revolution • During WWII, the Soviet Union and United States ...
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.