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Cold War
1945 to 1991
Q. List the following presidents
in order from the earliest to the
most recent.
a. Kennedy
c. Johnson
b. Truman
d. Eisenhower
Q. Who replaced Joseph Stalin
as the Soviet leader?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khruschev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Cold War Policies and Events
Definition and Background
 Ideological Differences
 Iron Curtain
 Berlin Airlift
 Truman Doctrine
 The Marshall Plan and COMECON
 Containment
 NATO and Warsaw Pact
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Cold War Policies and Events
McCarthyism in US
 Hungary, 1956
 Berlin Wall, 1961
 Czechoslovakia, 1968:
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– Prague Spring
– Brezhnev Doctrine
Cold War around the world
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China goes Red 1949
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Revolution led by Mao Zedong
Nationalists (Jiang Jieshi) to Taiwan
Great Leap Forward: goals, results
Cultural Revolution
Chinese get bomb, 1964
Split with Soviets by 1968
UN and US recognition
Mao’s death 1976
Korean War
1950-53
 Division
 North Korea attacks
 UN resolution, intervention
 Chinese intervention
 Stalemates, stalled negotiations
 54,000 US dead, 2 million Koreans
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Cold War in Latin America
Many right-wing dictatorships
 Attractions to revolution by impoverished
masses
 Cuba:
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– Fidel Castro
– Bay of Pigs
– Cuban Missile Crisis
What country was at war with
Vietnam from 1946 to 1954?
a. France
b. China
c. The United States d. Cambodia
Vietnam Background
French colonial background
 Japanese in WWII
 Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh fight
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– Japanese
– returning French
– US aids Minh vs. Japan, French vs.Minh
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French Withdraw
Vietnam War
Geneva Accord 1954
 South Vietnam:
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– Ngo Dinh Diem is PM
North Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh
 Growing Civil war:
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– In South: NLF/Viet Cong
– Ngo’s popularity declines
– Coup
Vietnam War
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Growing US involvement in 1960s:
1962: 11,000
1963: 16,000
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
 Escalation:
1964: 23,000
1965: 200,000
1967: 485,000
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The defoliant used to clear
jungles in Vietnam was called:
a. Purple Haze b. Agent Orange
c. Fallout
d. Acid Rain
Vietnam War
Nature of Guerilla Warfare
 Tet Offensive 1968: Impacts
 My Lai
 Recommended Film: Dear America: Letters
Home from Vietnam
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Where is Kent State?
a. Illinois
c. Maryland
b. Florida
d. Ohio
Ending the War
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Vietnamization:
– 1969: 541,000
– 1970: 335,000
– 1972: 24,000
Bombing of Cambodia and Invasion
 Kent State
 1973: US out
 End of War 1975
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Legacies/Results/Changes/
Impacts of Vietnam War
Deaths and Casualties
 Immigration to US
 Disillusionment with gov’t, politics
 Impact on Foreign Policy
 Others?
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Afghanistan
1978 Communists seized power
 Soviet Union backs it up
 100,000 troops deployed
 Mujahadin guerillas fight for
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– Islam
– indep of Afghanistan
US aid for guerillas
 Soviets withdraw after 10 years
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Détente
– SALT
– UN Nonproliferation Agreement, 1970
– http://www.unog.ch/disarm/distreat/npt.pdf
(useful fact sheet, summary)
– nuclear test ban agreements