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The Cold War

1947 - 1989

Winston S. Churchill:"Iron Curtain Speech", March 5, 1946

Fall of the Berlin Wall – NOV 9, 1989

America’s Wars

1750 French Revolution 1812 3 Seminole Mexican 1850 & Indian Wars

1850 Civil Indian Boxer Spanish Philippine WWI Banana WWII Greek 1950 War Wars Rebellion American Insurrection Wars Civil

1950 Korea Cold Vietnam Nicaragua Desert Iraqi Afghanistan Present War Storm Freedom

Factors Influencing Conduct of War

Pol

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l Sociological

Technological

Spectrum of War

Cost

Crime Terrorism Guerrilla Lo-Intensity Conventional Limited Nuc. Nuclear

Risk

WESTEAST

BERLIN

POLAND

POSTWAR PARTITION OF GERMANY

PRUSSIA

The Cold War World

Mr. “X”or

the “X Article”

The Sources of Soviet ConductBy “X”

George Kennan, Undersecretary of State

Foreign Policy magazine, May 1947

Containment

USSR Containment

NATO

SEATO

Vietnam

KoreaGreece

Japan

The Cold War World

Cold War Events 1950-1955Greek Civil War – MAR 1946 – OCT 1949

Truman Doctrine – MAR 1947; Marshall Plan 1948-1952

Berlin Airlift – JUN 1948 – MAY 1949

Communist conquest of China – 1934 - 1949

Russian Atomic Bomb – AUG 1949

Korean War – JUL 1950 - 1954

US Fusion Bomb – NOV 1952

Russian Fusion Bomb – AUG 1953

1st Indochinese War – 1946-1954

NATO – 1949, Warsaw Pact - 1955

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg – JUN 1953

McCarthy hearings – MAR - JUN 1954

Greek Civil War

1946-1949

The Truman

Doctrine

British

Mideast

Occupation

Partition of India

1947

Cold War Events 1950-1955Greek Civil War – MAR 1946 – OCT 1949

Truman Doctrine – MAR 1947; Marshall Plan 1948-1952

Berlin Airlift – JUN 1948 – MAY 1949

Communist conquest of China – 1934 - 1949

Russian Atomic Bomb – AUG 1949

Korean War – JUL 1950 - 1954

US Fusion Bomb – NOV 1952

Russian Fusion Bomb – AUG 1953

1st Indochinese War – 1946-1954

NATO – 1949, Warsaw Pact - 1955

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg – JUN 1953

McCarthy hearings – MAR - JUN 1954

Mutual Assured Destruction(MAD)

• Triad – Manned Bombers, Land based Ballistic Missiles, Fleet Ballistic Missiles

• MIRV – Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicle

• SDI – Strategic Defense Initiative – “Star Wars”

• Nuclear proliferation• START – Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

The Nuclear Triad

MAD Mutual Assured Destruction

MIRV – Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicle

Cold War Events – 1955-1991• Hungarian Revolution – 1956• Suez Canal Crisis – OCT 1956• Wars of National Liberation• Space Race• Cuban Revolution – 1958• Berlin Crisis & Berlin Wall 1961• Cuban Missile Crisis – 1962• 2d Indochinese War (Vietnam) – 1957-1975• Arab/Israeli 6 Day War - 1967• Czechoslovakian Invasion -1968• Sino America rapprochement - 1972• SALT 1 – 1972, SALT 2 – 1979• Arab Israeli 1973 War• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - 1980

Britain & the Middle East

1973

Cease-Fire Lines

The Great Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Soviet Dissolution – 1980 - 1991

The Wall Comes Down – OCT-NOV 1989