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Chapter 28 Post WWII and the Cold War. Cold War: An era of competition and confrontation between The U.S. and the Soviet Union. 1946-1990 Essentially for U.S. It was about containing communism. The Cold War Begins. After 1945 the Soviet Union and the U.S. try to rebuild Europe peacefully.
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Cold War: An era of competition and confrontation between The U.S. and the Soviet Union. 1946-1990 Essentially for U.S. It was about containing communism.
The Cold War Begins After 1945 the Soviet Union and the U.S. try to rebuild Europe peacefully. The disagreement was over how to run the elections of the post war Poland and the Balkans The U.S. wanted free elections, The soviet Union wanted to institute a soviet sphere of influence.
The Iron Curtain descends Stalin sensing what he felt to be a betrayal began to set-up a set of Soviet satellite states from the Adriatic to the Baltic sea. Germany which had been split into territories became the lynch pin France Britain and America began to unify their territories and spread free elections The Soviet pushed communism in the eastern block
Containment The idea of containment was greed upon by then secretary of stat George C. Marshall Dean Acheson, and George Kennan
George Kennan and the Long Telegram George Kennan was an ambassador to Moscow as tension began to sour. The long telegram refers to 5,540 word telegram that explained his view on the Soviet Union Kennan developed the ide of Containment which meant the U.S. needed to keep communism contained to the Soviet Union
Domino Theory The idea of containment was based around the Domino theory. Domino Theory: the idea that if communism could spread to the surrounding countries of USSR then it would eventually spread around the wall. Essentially countries would fall to communism like dominos.
Truman Doctrine As the USSR began to spread it s influence into Turkey and other areas of the Middle east Truman decided to take action. He asked Congress for 400 million to try and free the area from the Soviet Union. This action would lead the Truman Doctrine, were the U.S. would provide aid to any country facing oppression or opposing communism.
Protecting the World The U.S. would continue to implement policies in an attempt to protect against communism. Marshall plan: Developed by secretary of state George C. Marshall the plan donated money to rebuild war torn Europe and Japan.
Germany The decision came about to split Germany into four territories. France , Britain, America, and the Soviet Union each controlled a section The Soviet Union wanted Germany to pay reparations. Put the U.S. and the Soviot Union at the brink of war
Berlin Airlift To deal with the Soviet Union the U.S. merged their territories with their allies. The Soviet Union decided to cut ties with Western Germany, almost preparing for an invasion. The U.S. sent planes full of supplies to Western Germany to support them.
NATO As the Soviet Union blockaded off Berlin from Germany the U.S. was looking for an alliance. NATO: stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Twelve countries who agreed to militarily support any country attacked.
The Chinese Revolution China formed a prominent communist party before world war II. Which was less active in order to stop the Japanese. When WWII ended the party restarted and began to gain strength. America provided the Chinese 2 billion dollars in aid to put down the Communists. Unfortunately the funds were misspent and China fell to Mao and communism.
The Butter Battle 1. What is the main conflict between the Zooks and the Yooks? 2. What was the first solution to their problem? 3.Who do you think the chief and the boys in the back refer to in real life? 4. What do we see the Yooks and the Zooks do as time moves on? 5. What is the ending cliffhanger how is it similar to the cold war?
Eisenhower comes to power As Eisenhower entered the White House the Cold War was one of his Primary interests. He believed that the war would not be won not just by military build up, but also economic build up.
Massive Retaliation Roosevelt thought communism could not be contained with small battles. Instead he believed in threatening to use Nuclear Weapons. There critics to this idea calling it brinksmanship due to putting the world on the brink of war.
The end of a war and control of a crisis By 1953 Eisenhower had decided to end the war in Korea, and signed a peace accord. As China fell to the Communist the new soviet country began talks to invade Taiwan. Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons ending the crisis.
Covert Ops Brinksmanship worked in only some scenarios. Eisenhower decided to use the CIA or central Intelligence Agency to stop communism from growing in developing countries. Many of these countries wanted to become communist because of imperialism and capitalism.
