the cold war begins hwh unit 12 chapter 17.5, 18.1, and pp. 619-622
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The “ Iron Curtain ”TRANSCRIPT
The Cold War BeginsHWH UNIT 12
CHAPTER 17.5, 18.1, and pp. 619-622
The “Iron Curtain”
The United Nations
The United NationsGeneral AssemblySecurity Council
USAUSSR FranceBritainChina*
US vs. USSRSoviet attitudesWestern attitudesCommunist Pressure
France, Italy, Greece, Turkey
The Truman Doctrine, 1947
Greece and TurkeyContainment
Economic RecoveryThe Marshall
Plan or ERP (1948-1952)Mixed EconomiesThe Welfare State
Health CareUnemploymentPensionsSubsidized housingHigher tax on wealthy
The Berlin Blockade/Airlift, 1948
Two Germanies, 1949The Federal Republic of
Germany (West Germany) or FRGThe German Democratic Republic (East Germany) or GDR (DDR)
West GermanyKonrad Adenauer (1949-1962)Christian DemocratsThe German “Economic Miracle” or Wirtschaftswunder
NATO (1949)
Economic RecoveryThe “mixed” economies of the
WestThe Coal and Steel Community (1951)
Schuman PlanFrance, W. Germany, Italy, Benelux Nations
The European Economic Community or “Common Market” (1957)
Precursor to the European Union
Stalin and the USSRMore Five Year Plans
More industrializationCollectivization in Eastern Europe
More PurgesArtistsJewsPerhaps 12,000,000 Soviets died from 1946-1953
“As long as capitalism exists, war is inevitable.”
Soviets get the A-Bomb (1949)
The Nuclear Arms Race
USA develops the Hydrogen Bomb (1952)USSR develops the Hydrogen Bomb (1953)ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), 1959Mutually Assured Destruction
Stalin’s Death (1953)
Khrushchev and “De-Stalinization”
New party membersConsumer goodsRenewed freedom for writersInadvertently encouraged uprisings in satellite states
The Warsaw Pact (1955)
“Peaceful Coexistence”
Hungary, 1956
Sputnik (1957)
The Berlin Wall, 1961
The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
(1961-2)
Détente?Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963
Brezhnev and “Re-Stalinization” (1964)
Prague, 1968 (“Prague Spring”)
