cold war, globalisation and the rise of us hegemony: from yalta to vietnam dr andrew roadnight 10...
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Cold War, Globalisation and the Rise of US Hegemony:
From Yalta to Vietnam
Dr Andrew Roadnight10 March 2015
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
SOVIET SECURITY CONCERNS
LENIN’S THEORY OF IMPERIALISM
VANGUARD OF THE OPPRESSED
Outbreak of the Cold War GRAND ALLIANCE FALLS APART
CONTEST FOR EASTERN EUROPE
SOVIET SUSPICIONS OF THE WEST
CHARACTERS OF THE LEADERS
Outbreak of the Cold War SOVIET PRESSURE: IRAN (1946)
CHURCHILL’S IRON CURTAIN
KENNAN’S ‘CONTAINMENT THEORY’
THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (1947)
ZHADANOV – ‘TWO CAMPS’
NSC 68 SOVIET A-BOMB (1949)
CHINESE REVOLUTION – MAO ZEDONG
NSC 68 (APRIL 1950)
KOREAN WAR (25 JUNE 1950)
The Korean War SYNGMAN RHEE
KIM IL SUNG
‘ROLLBACK’
WEST GERMANY AND JAPAN
SINO-SOVIET FRICTION
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
Détente in Europe LEONID BREZHNEV AND ‘DÉTENTE’
WILLY BRANDT: A SETTLEMENT IN GERMANY (1973)
EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE
THE HELSINKI DECLARATION (1975)
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)
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
Détente SUMMIT CONFERENCES 1972,
1973, 1974
ARMS CONTROL, MISSILE REDUCTION, TRADE DEALS
1973: CEASEFIRE IN VIETNAM
1975: DÉTENTE IS DEAD
The Cold War: An Assessment