The Origins of the Cold War - Know Your Stuff | GCSE and IGCSE
... 3. Lack of trust without the threat of Hitler ⇒ without the threat of Hitler, they became suspicious of each other ⇒ after all, Stalin had signed the Nazi-‐Soviet Pact even with Hitler as an enemy ...
... 3. Lack of trust without the threat of Hitler ⇒ without the threat of Hitler, they became suspicious of each other ⇒ after all, Stalin had signed the Nazi-‐Soviet Pact even with Hitler as an enemy ...
United States policy of Containment
... Containment Containment was a policy followed by the united states aimed at blocking Soviet influence and preventing the expansion of communism This policy was initiated under President Truman ...
... Containment Containment was a policy followed by the united states aimed at blocking Soviet influence and preventing the expansion of communism This policy was initiated under President Truman ...
Why Do States Cooperate with Each Other?
... alliances dominated by the superpowers—NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) or the Warsaw Pact (Figure 8-21, left). NATO was a military alliance among 16 democratic states, including the United States and Canada plus 14 European states. The Warsaw Pact was a military agreement among Communist E ...
... alliances dominated by the superpowers—NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) or the Warsaw Pact (Figure 8-21, left). NATO was a military alliance among 16 democratic states, including the United States and Canada plus 14 European states. The Warsaw Pact was a military agreement among Communist E ...
Ronald Reagan`s Second Term: 1984-1988
... known as Contras against the ruling Marxist Sandinistas. This policy violated American laws on international intervention. Congress discovered this violation and, in 1984, cut off aid to the Contras. In what became known as the IranContra affair, some government officials secretly continued supp ...
... known as Contras against the ruling Marxist Sandinistas. This policy violated American laws on international intervention. Congress discovered this violation and, in 1984, cut off aid to the Contras. In what became known as the IranContra affair, some government officials secretly continued supp ...
The Yalta Conference
... 1945, at Yalta on the Black Sea. Roosevelt's advisers included chief political troubleshooter Harry Hopkins, and the new secretary of state, Edward. R. Stettinius, Jr. The war against Hitler was entering its final stages, with the Allies closing in on Germany and the Red Army controlling much of Eas ...
... 1945, at Yalta on the Black Sea. Roosevelt's advisers included chief political troubleshooter Harry Hopkins, and the new secretary of state, Edward. R. Stettinius, Jr. The war against Hitler was entering its final stages, with the Allies closing in on Germany and the Red Army controlling much of Eas ...
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and sparked a ten
... PDPA) - a political structure that supported communism. Prior to his ascent, the PDPA split into the Parchamists, led by Babrak Karmal, which remained loyal to Daoud, and the Khalqis, which was a radical group led by Noor Taraki. Realizing that the split placed Afghanistan in danger of civil war, Da ...
... PDPA) - a political structure that supported communism. Prior to his ascent, the PDPA split into the Parchamists, led by Babrak Karmal, which remained loyal to Daoud, and the Khalqis, which was a radical group led by Noor Taraki. Realizing that the split placed Afghanistan in danger of civil war, Da ...
11 Aid and the Economy
... HOW DID THE SOVIET UNION BELIEVE EUROPE WOULD ECONOMICALLY BENEFIT THE U.S. UNDER THE MARSHALL PLAN? The soviet union refused making the United States efforts in stopping communism & making America the world's most important economic power. ...
... HOW DID THE SOVIET UNION BELIEVE EUROPE WOULD ECONOMICALLY BENEFIT THE U.S. UNDER THE MARSHALL PLAN? The soviet union refused making the United States efforts in stopping communism & making America the world's most important economic power. ...
Tracy High School
... States could afford a major defense buildup; the Soviet Union could not. Despite assertions to the contrary from proponents of detente, intelligence assessments in the early 1980s made this fact abundantly clear to the administration. Committed as he was to the destruction of communism, Reagan impl ...
... States could afford a major defense buildup; the Soviet Union could not. Despite assertions to the contrary from proponents of detente, intelligence assessments in the early 1980s made this fact abundantly clear to the administration. Committed as he was to the destruction of communism, Reagan impl ...
American Anthem Postwar America
... 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 ...
File - Mr. Perry`S Class
... 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 ...
GHIS Intro Assignment
... 8. Discuss the rise of Soviet power in Eastern Europe. How did a country that was believed to be on the verge of collapsing pre-1941 grow into a global superpower? Why is Russia so hard to invade? 9. How did Russia’s population play a role in the war against the Nazis? As a follow up—how did commun ...
... 8. Discuss the rise of Soviet power in Eastern Europe. How did a country that was believed to be on the verge of collapsing pre-1941 grow into a global superpower? Why is Russia so hard to invade? 9. How did Russia’s population play a role in the war against the Nazis? As a follow up—how did commun ...
Cold War
... Cold War got worse. East/West Germany: German Democratic Republic/ Federal Republic of Germany. NATO and Warsaw Pact – NATO treaty signed (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)(1949) defensive alliance set up against USSR/ Warsaw Pact 1955 set up by Russia ...
... Cold War got worse. East/West Germany: German Democratic Republic/ Federal Republic of Germany. NATO and Warsaw Pact – NATO treaty signed (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)(1949) defensive alliance set up against USSR/ Warsaw Pact 1955 set up by Russia ...
An overview of the Cold War
... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed. It stated, “The Parties of NATO agreed that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.” List of current countries a part of NATO: ...
... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed. It stated, “The Parties of NATO agreed that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.” List of current countries a part of NATO: ...
File - Miss Boatwright`s Page
... When World War II came to an end in 1945, the Allied powers (USA, Britain and the Soviet Union) held conferences to discuss how Germany should be divided up upon its defeat. The first conference was held at Yalta in February of 1945 and the second was held at Potsdam in July of the same year. The ag ...
... When World War II came to an end in 1945, the Allied powers (USA, Britain and the Soviet Union) held conferences to discuss how Germany should be divided up upon its defeat. The first conference was held at Yalta in February of 1945 and the second was held at Potsdam in July of the same year. The ag ...
Notice – L`Europe en 1945 - Centre européen Robert Schuman
... The immediate post-war period in Europe was characterised by the Soviet Union annexing or converting into Soviet Socialist Republics all the countries that the Red Army had taken over behind its own lines in driving the German invaders out of central and eastern Europe. Countries converted into Sovi ...
... The immediate post-war period in Europe was characterised by the Soviet Union annexing or converting into Soviet Socialist Republics all the countries that the Red Army had taken over behind its own lines in driving the German invaders out of central and eastern Europe. Countries converted into Sovi ...
CH17Test
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The Cold War revision notes (latest) DOCX File
... Khrushchev worried Nagy's reforms would be copied by other satellite states who would try to leave the Warsaw Pact. The USSR sent 200,000 Soviet troops into Hungary to regain control. The USA disapproved, but sent no military aid fearing it might spark a much bigger war with the USSR. 20,000 Hungari ...
... Khrushchev worried Nagy's reforms would be copied by other satellite states who would try to leave the Warsaw Pact. The USSR sent 200,000 Soviet troops into Hungary to regain control. The USA disapproved, but sent no military aid fearing it might spark a much bigger war with the USSR. 20,000 Hungari ...
15a. Describe the movement from U.S. neutrality to engagement in
... WWII- a TRUE World War Allies- Great Britain, Soviet Union, US, China, and France Axis- Germany, Italy, Japan Oceans became battlefields, and the whole world saw war as a personal experience ...
... WWII- a TRUE World War Allies- Great Britain, Soviet Union, US, China, and France Axis- Germany, Italy, Japan Oceans became battlefields, and the whole world saw war as a personal experience ...
The Saylor Foundation Saylor.org The Origins of the Cold War
... they agreed to divide Germany into four zones of occupation: one American, one British, one French, and one Russian. The country could be reunited down the road, but for now the German threat had to be neutralized. There were other, more controversial matters on the table, too. Stalin wanted a ring ...
... they agreed to divide Germany into four zones of occupation: one American, one British, one French, and one Russian. The country could be reunited down the road, but for now the German threat had to be neutralized. There were other, more controversial matters on the table, too. Stalin wanted a ring ...
Chapter 27 Study Guide The Cold War Learning Objectives
... How did the power that the atomic bomb placed in American hands also redefine the stakes in any future war and the morality of the bomb’s use? ...
... How did the power that the atomic bomb placed in American hands also redefine the stakes in any future war and the morality of the bomb’s use? ...
WWII/ Cold War Quiz
... The harsh conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I helped lay the foundation for the A. ...
... The harsh conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I helped lay the foundation for the A. ...
Subject: World History Grade / Group: 1001/1002
... 4. Explain each events AND how it contributed to tensions between the USA & USSR during the Cold War: a. Berlin Airlift b. Creation of the Berlin Wall c. Cuban Missile Crisis 5. Who was Mao Zedong? 6. How did the Chinese Communists increase their power during World War II? 6. What was the purpose of ...
... 4. Explain each events AND how it contributed to tensions between the USA & USSR during the Cold War: a. Berlin Airlift b. Creation of the Berlin Wall c. Cuban Missile Crisis 5. Who was Mao Zedong? 6. How did the Chinese Communists increase their power during World War II? 6. What was the purpose of ...
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.