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Cold War, Globalisation and the Rise of US Hegemony:

Cold War, Globalisation and the Rise of US Hegemony:. From Yalta to Vietnam Dr Andrew Roadnight 10 March 2014. The USA in 1945. RETURN TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION? ‘CITY UPON THE HILL’ MANIFEST DESTINY USA – AN IMPERIAL NATION. The USSR in 1945. USSR’S WWII SACRIFICE

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Cold War, Globalisation and the Rise of US Hegemony:

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  1. Cold War, Globalisation and the Rise of US Hegemony: From Yalta to Vietnam Dr Andrew Roadnight 10 March 2014

  2. The USA in 1945 • RETURN TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION? • ‘CITY UPON THE HILL’ • MANIFEST DESTINY • USA – AN IMPERIAL NATION

  3. The USSR in 1945 • USSR’S WWII SACRIFICE • SOVIET SECURITY CONCERNS • LENIN’S THEORY OF IMPERIALISM • VANGUARD OF THE OPPRESSED

  4. Outbreak of the Cold War • GRAND ALLIANCE FALLS APART • CONTEST FOR EASTERN EUROPE • SOVIET SUSPICIONS OF THE WEST • CHARACTERS OF THE LEADERS

  5. Outbreak of the Cold War • SOVIET PRESSURE: IRAN (1946) • CHURCHILL’S IRON CURTAIN • KENNAN’S ‘CONTAINMENT THEORY’ • THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (1947) • ZHADANOV – ‘TWO CAMPS’

  6. NSC 68 • SOVIET A-BOMB (1949) • CHINESE REVOLUTION – MAO ZEDONG • NSC 68 (APRIL 1950) • KOREAN WAR (25 JUNE 1950)

  7. The Korean War • SYNGMAN RHEE • KIM IL SUNG • ‘ROLLBACK’ • WEST GERMANY AND JAPAN • SINO-SOVIET FRICTION

  8. The Cold War and the 3rd World • DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND ‘MASSIVE RETALIATION’ • NIKITA KHRUSCHEV AND ‘PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE’ • NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT (BANDUNG, 1955) • NUCLEAR ARMS RACE

  9. Détente in Europe • LEONID BREZHNEV AND ‘DÉTENTE’ • WILLY BRANDT: A SETTLEMENT IN GERMANY (1973) • EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE • THE HELSINKI DECLARATION (1975)

  10. Countdown to Vietnam • 1950s: THE AMERICAN DREAM • THE CIA, NATIONALISM AND THE ‘DOMINO THEORY’ • HO CHI MINH & DIEN BIEN PHU (1954) • THE GENEVA CONFERENCE (1955)

  11. Vietnam: An American Disaster • NGO DINH DIEM – SINK OR SWIM • US MILITARY COMMITMENT: 1960 – <1000; 1963 – 16,000; 1968 – 568,000 • USSR ACHIEVES NUCLEAR PARITY • 1968: NIXON ELECTED

  12. Détente • SUMMIT CONFERENCES 1972, 1973, 1974 • ARMS CONTROL, MISSILE REDUCTION, TRADE DEALS • 1973: CEASEFIRE IN VIETNAM • 1975: DÉTENTE IS DEAD

  13. The Cold War: An Assessment

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