The Cold War

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The Cold War

• Truman Doctrine
• Containment
• Deterrence Theory
• Massive Retaliation
• New Look
• Iron Curtain
• Berlin Airlift

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Traditional Points of Disagreement

• US
• Capitalist System
• Democratic Ideals
• Russian support for Communist International

• Russia/USSR
• Communism
• Authoritarian Politics
• US Intervention in Russian Civil War
• US failure to help Republicans in Spanish Civil
  War

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World War II Aftermath

• Collapse of European colonialism
• Superpower conflict
• United Nations
• Intl military force
• Security Council
• What about atomic
• power?
• Intl agency?

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Recent ProblemsA Bipolar World

• US
• Russian refusal to demobilize
• Russian treatment of Poland, Eastern Europe - The
  Iron Curtain
• Chinese Civil War
• 1949 Russian explosion of A-Bomb
• Espionage

• USSR
• US delay in invading France
• Truman Doctrine of 1947
• Containment
• US nuclear supremacy
• US technological advantages
• NATO, Marshall Plan

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The Berlin Airlift and US Ideological Change
What were we doing and why?
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Rapid US Demobilization
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Nuclear Strategy

• Technology
• Threat of nuclear weapons
• Deterrence
• Arms control
• The New Look
• Massive retaliation
• Second Strike

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The Cold War Turns Hot