COLD WAR

IDEOLOGYRHETORIC

WORLDDOMINATION

TRADEARMS RACE

SPACE RACE

OLYMPICSCapitalism Communism

• Berlin• China• Korea• Cuba• Vietnam• Guatemala• South Africa…

• Trading blocs followed politics.• Capitalist countries traded together.• Communists traded together.

• Nuclear missiles.• ICBMs.• Mutually Assured

Destruction (MAD).

• Sputnik 1957.• NASA, 1958.• JFK’s 1960

inauguraladdress promisesa man on the moon.

• Intense competition.• 1980 US boycott

of Moscow Games.• 1984 USSR boycott

Los Angeles games..

• Kitchen Debates, 1959.• Nuclear Arms.

Starting the Cold War

• Yalta Conference—February 1945• “Big Three” meet to decide what to do with Germany

– Included Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt

• Decided:– Germany divided into 4 controlled zones– Stalin promised to allow free elections in the Eastern European states

• Potsdam Conference—July 1945– Stalin, Truman (FDR died), and Churchill(replaced by Clement Attlee

during meeting)– Again discussed division of Germany and free elections in Eastern

Europe—Stalin refused

Starting the Cold War

• Churchill commented:– “A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately

lightened by the Allied victory… an Iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”

• Iron curtain became the term to reference Soviet isolation and the difference between communist and democratic Europe

Re-Building EuropeMARSHALL PLAN (1948)

•Plan to re-build economy of Europe•Avoid mistakes of Versailles•Contain Communism by easing poverty•Gave $13 billion to Europe

COMECON (1949)

•Soviets created their own alternative•Increased trade with USSR & East Europe

Military AlliancesNATO, 1949•Regional Military alliance against Soviet Aggression.•Included West Europe, the U.S., and Canada.•Germany joined in 1955 and was allowed to rearm.

WARSAW PACT•German admittance caused Warsaw Pact.•Military alliance of Communist countries.

– Bulgaria– Czechoslovakia– East Germany– Hungary– Poland– Romania– Soviet Union..

Conflict in BerlinAllied forces joined their zones in 1948 to let

Germany become independentSoviet Union kept control of theirs and held the

capital “hostage”◦Cut all lines of access to East Berlin to let food and

supplies into the city—only had enough food for 5 weeks for 2.1 million people

Berlin Airlift—227,000 Allied flights to supply the city over 327 days◦ Included food, medicine, clothes, and Christmas

presents

The Korean War

• After World War II, Korea divided at the 38th parallel– Soviet Union and China supported the North– United States supported the South

• After superpowers withdrew their forces, tensions between the two Koreas escalated– June 25, 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea

The Korean War

• The United Nations also backed the South• 16 nations supported South Korea—sent a

total of over half a million troops to help with the fighting

• In spite of their effort, North Korea pushed the allied forces almost off of the peninsula– General Douglas MacArthur implemented a plan

that pushed the North back

The Korean War

• MacArthur’s plan was very successful• The united Southern forces pushed the North

all the way to China, but Truman refused• War ended a few years later in July of 1953• Cost the United States 54,000 lives and $67

billion

6.1—Compare and contrast ideologies, tactics, and policies of the United States and the USSR

from 1945 to the Present.

• How can the Berlin Airlift/Blockade and airlift be used as evidence for the prompt?

• How can the Korean War be used as evidence for the prompt?

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhee_Syng-Man_in_1956.jpg• 4 zones of Germany—http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A2KJkCJX7W1RXBEAn5yJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Deast

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• Berlin airlift—http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A2KJkevIFm5RnAUAdWOJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dberlin%2Bairlift%26fr%3Dyfp-t-672%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D4&w=695&h=515&imgurl=thecoldwars.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fberlin-blockade.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthecoldwars.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F13%2Fberlin-blockade-and-airlift-june-1948%2F&size=56.9+KB&name=Berlin+Blockade+and+Airlift%2C+June+1948+%C2%AB+thecoldwars&p=berlin+airlift&oid=947ec6a3d81b76b7a7665573f3e01dc7&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t-672&tt=Berlin%2BBlockade%2Band%2BAirlift%252C%2BJune%2B1948%2B%25C2%25AB%2Bthecoldwars&b=0&ni=144&no=4&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=12ip1g1l6&sigb=137juh3k4&sigi=11repll97&.crumb=Ru.jn.xD5Xu

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