Chapter 33, Section 1
... B. The Truman Doctrine 1. foreign aid for Turkey and Greece; $400 million C. The Marshall Plan 1. provide food and goods to help rebuild Western Europe $12.5 billion ...
... B. The Truman Doctrine 1. foreign aid for Turkey and Greece; $400 million C. The Marshall Plan 1. provide food and goods to help rebuild Western Europe $12.5 billion ...
Chapter 35 The End of the Cold War and the Shape of a New Era
... US military commitments remained high after the Cold War. Many other countries increased their military arsenal in response. The growth and success of the European Union is a potential counterweight to the USA. ...
... US military commitments remained high after the Cold War. Many other countries increased their military arsenal in response. The growth and success of the European Union is a potential counterweight to the USA. ...
U5D6- Roots of the Cold War
... applied to economics, they look as follows: U.S. (capitalism) people can own their own ...
... applied to economics, they look as follows: U.S. (capitalism) people can own their own ...
20th Century Conflicts
... War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. (Roughly 1949-1990) USA vs. USSR Truman : “containment of communism” (don’t destroy communism, but keep it from spreading) ...
... War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. (Roughly 1949-1990) USA vs. USSR Truman : “containment of communism” (don’t destroy communism, but keep it from spreading) ...
BELL QUIZ: USE PAGES 605-608
... though they were allies in WWII. WHY? 1) Soviets upset about not being invited to Treaty of Versailles (peace treaty ending WWI). 2) Soviets were stripped of their colonies in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. 3) Soviets resent the U.S. delay in attacking Germany in Europe. (didn’t happen unt ...
... though they were allies in WWII. WHY? 1) Soviets upset about not being invited to Treaty of Versailles (peace treaty ending WWI). 2) Soviets were stripped of their colonies in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. 3) Soviets resent the U.S. delay in attacking Germany in Europe. (didn’t happen unt ...
The Cold War - Cobb Learning
... and dictatorships around 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 ...
... and dictatorships around 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 ...
Struggle & Containment
... other Allies worsen • Cold War: an era of high tension & bitter rivalry between the United States & the Soviet Union in the decades following WWII ...
... other Allies worsen • Cold War: an era of high tension & bitter rivalry between the United States & the Soviet Union in the decades following WWII ...
Introduction to the Cold war
... • Several car accidents and heart attacks suffered that night • Later military investigations concluded that the “object” was most likely a meteorological balloon (weather balloon) that failed to be tracked properly between government agencies • Many still have their own theories…… (UFOs) • The Batt ...
... • Several car accidents and heart attacks suffered that night • Later military investigations concluded that the “object” was most likely a meteorological balloon (weather balloon) that failed to be tracked properly between government agencies • Many still have their own theories…… (UFOs) • The Batt ...
Chapter 27 Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945-1960
... The state of Israel, created by the United Nations as a homeland for the Diaspora Jews of the Holocaust, unfortunately displaced thousands of Palestinian Arabs from their traditional lands along the Mediterranean This action solidified Arab hatred of the western sponsors of Israel and put in mot ...
... The state of Israel, created by the United Nations as a homeland for the Diaspora Jews of the Holocaust, unfortunately displaced thousands of Palestinian Arabs from their traditional lands along the Mediterranean This action solidified Arab hatred of the western sponsors of Israel and put in mot ...
Chapter 27 - Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945-1960
... Containing the Soviet Union Containment Defined George Kennan is generally credited with defining Americas response to the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union Containment theory taught that the Soviets would never turn from their plans of world domination unless hindered by force at every turn ...
... Containing the Soviet Union Containment Defined George Kennan is generally credited with defining Americas response to the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union Containment theory taught that the Soviets would never turn from their plans of world domination unless hindered by force at every turn ...
Cold War Exam Study Guide
... 5. What effects did the Korean War have on Korea’s land and it’s people? 6. What difficulties did the U.S. Army face fighting the war in Vietnam? 7. Why did developing nations often align themselves with one or the other superpower? 8. How did the Soviet Union respond to the Bay of Pigs? 9. In what ...
... 5. What effects did the Korean War have on Korea’s land and it’s people? 6. What difficulties did the U.S. Army face fighting the war in Vietnam? 7. Why did developing nations often align themselves with one or the other superpower? 8. How did the Soviet Union respond to the Bay of Pigs? 9. In what ...
Impact of the Cold War at home
... United States and American ideals of democracy and freedom ultimately prevailed in the Cold War struggle with Soviet communism. ...
... United States and American ideals of democracy and freedom ultimately prevailed in the Cold War struggle with Soviet communism. ...
From the Grand Alliance to Containment
... • The strategy first articulated by diplomat George F. Kennan in 1946-47. • Kennan believed that Stalin exaggerated foreign press to maintain power in his own country, because it was increasingly politically and economically unstable • Kennan predicted that The Soviet Union would only retreat from e ...
... • The strategy first articulated by diplomat George F. Kennan in 1946-47. • Kennan believed that Stalin exaggerated foreign press to maintain power in his own country, because it was increasingly politically and economically unstable • Kennan predicted that The Soviet Union would only retreat from e ...
2. The Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1953
... Soviet Views of the Iron Curtain • Stalin believed that the Iron Curtain was necessary to protect the Soviet Union from western attacks. • Stalin used Churchill’s words to help persuade his people that the United States and Great Britain were their enemies. • He also used this as an excuse to rebuil ...
... Soviet Views of the Iron Curtain • Stalin believed that the Iron Curtain was necessary to protect the Soviet Union from western attacks. • Stalin used Churchill’s words to help persuade his people that the United States and Great Britain were their enemies. • He also used this as an excuse to rebuil ...
Learning from the mistakes of the past, the United States
... military supplies to support "free people who are resisting outside pressures" ...
... military supplies to support "free people who are resisting outside pressures" ...
The End of World War II
... Directions: Use pages 400-405 in your U.S. History book to complete the following handout. ...
... Directions: Use pages 400-405 in your U.S. History book to complete the following handout. ...
The Cold War
... postwar conditions, would pave the way for a mutual accommodation that would somehow satisfy both America’s commitment to a world of free trade and democratic rule, and the Soviet Union’s obsession with national security and safely defined spheres of influence.” Chafe. The Unfinished Journey; Americ ...
... postwar conditions, would pave the way for a mutual accommodation that would somehow satisfy both America’s commitment to a world of free trade and democratic rule, and the Soviet Union’s obsession with national security and safely defined spheres of influence.” Chafe. The Unfinished Journey; Americ ...
The World After 1945
... Soviet Union: The Russian people had suffered immeasurably during the war, and western Russia was devastated by the land warfare that was primarily on Russian territory. But, in the process of defeating the Germans, the Russians had built a large and powerful army, which occupied most of Eastern Eur ...
... Soviet Union: The Russian people had suffered immeasurably during the war, and western Russia was devastated by the land warfare that was primarily on Russian territory. But, in the process of defeating the Germans, the Russians had built a large and powerful army, which occupied most of Eastern Eur ...
Cold War
... agreement that “an armed attack against one or more of the member nations shall be considered an attack against all”. The counterpart of NATO, and had a military force that the Soviet Union controlled. ...
... agreement that “an armed attack against one or more of the member nations shall be considered an attack against all”. The counterpart of NATO, and had a military force that the Soviet Union controlled. ...
TELESCOPING THE TIMES Cold War Conflicts
... 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 wes ...
... 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 wes ...
1 The Americans (Survey) Chapter 26: TELESCOPING
... 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 wes ...
... 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 wes ...
Origins of the Cold War - 20thCentury-bbs2
... Division of Germany meant to be temporary but in 1947 U.S., Britain, and France merged their zones to create an independent West German state. They also intended on creating a democratic gov in Berlin. In 1948 the Soviets responded by blockading land access to Berlin hoping it would make western for ...
... Division of Germany meant to be temporary but in 1947 U.S., Britain, and France merged their zones to create an independent West German state. They also intended on creating a democratic gov in Berlin. In 1948 the Soviets responded by blockading land access to Berlin hoping it would make western for ...
The Cold War - Cabarrus County Schools
... Tensions began to arise over the democratic v. communist ideologies. IE: Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift ...
... Tensions began to arise over the democratic v. communist ideologies. IE: Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift ...
... 8. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) • In April 1949, the U.S., Canada, and 10 Western European Nations signed a pact stating an armed attack against one of the member nations shall be considered an attack on all. *To defend against a possible Soviet invasion of Western Europe, these countr ...
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.