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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
itica
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
