The Cold War 19451991

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The Cold War 1945-1991
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Germany in 1946
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Berlin in 1946
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Post War Europe 1945
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The United Nations 1945
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The Goals of the U.N.

• Promote peace and goodwill.
• Eliminate disease and suffering through
  humanitarian actions
• Acting as peacekeeper between warring members

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The UN General Assembly
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The UN Security Council

• The United States
• Russia
• Great Britain
• China
• France
• Plus Ten Rotating Seats

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Secretary-General of the UN
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UN Weaknesses

• Usually can never agree on anything
• Depends on the United States Military to back up
  any resolution it passes.

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The Nuremburg Trial 1946
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Crimes against Humanity
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The Main defendents

• Hermann Goring
• Rudolf Hess
• Alfred Jodl

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Zionism
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The 1948 War
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Wars between Israel and its neighbors

• 1948
• 1956
• 1967
• 1973
• 1982
• 2006

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The Marshall Plan
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George C. Marshall
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Creation of West Germany in 1948
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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The Truman Doctrine

• The U.S. would actively and openly oppose the
  spread of communism anywhere in the world.
• It was believed that if one country became
  communist, the others around it would fall like
  dominoes.

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Occupied Japan 1945-1952

• A new constitution was drafted that created a
  democracy
• 2 billion given to Japan to help rebuild
• Reorganized the school system to teach democratic
  values.
• Japan was not allowed to have a military

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Chinese Civil War
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Mao Tse TungMao Zedong
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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Mao and Chiang toast the defeat of Japan, 1945
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Communist China

• 20-80 million killed between 1950 and 1980.
• Freedom of press, free speech, freedom of
  religion, all severely limited.
• Strict state censorship of all media

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Tiananmen square
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The Korean War
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Kim IL-Sung
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MacArthur
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The Inchon Landings
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Old soldiers never die. They just fade away.
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The DMZ
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The Red Scare of the 1950s
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"I further swear (or affirm) that I do not
advise, advocate or teach, and have not within
the period beginning five (5) years prior to the
effective date of the ordinance requiring the
making of this oath or affirmation, advised,
advocated or taught, the overthrow by force,
violence or other unlawful means, of the
Government of the United States of America or of
the State of California and that I am not now and
have not, within said period, been or become a
member of or affiliated with any group, society,
association, organization or party which advises,
advocates or teaches, or has, within said period,
advised, advocated or taught, the overthrow by
force, violence or other unlawful means of the
Government of the United States of America
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Joe McCarthy
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McCarthyism
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The U-2 Incident 1960
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Francis Gary Powers
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Fidel Castro
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The Bay of Pigs Disaster
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John F. Kennedy
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Ich Bin Ein Berliner
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The Nuclear Test Ban treaty
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The Space Race
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Laika
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Yuri Gagarin
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Mercury Manned Spaceflight Program
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Alan Shepherd
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John Glenn
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Gemini Program
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Apollo Program
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Neil Armstrong
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The Vietnam War 1965-1973
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IndoChina
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Ho Chi Minh
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Viet Cong
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
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Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)
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Napalm
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Agent Orange
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1968 Tet Offensive
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My Lai
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The Anti-War Movement
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Doves and Hawks
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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out
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Kent State 1970
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Fall of Saigon 1975
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Nixon in China
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Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
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Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
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Strategic Air Command
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North American Air Defense Command
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Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle
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Distant Early Warning Line
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The Nuclear Triad
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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The Mujahadin
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Strategic Defense InitiativeStar Wars
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Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!
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The 1990s
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Suburbanization
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The Serviceman Readjustment Act (The GI Bill of
Rights) 1944
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Kuwait
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