The Cold War

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The Cold War

• A Bi-Polar and Dangerous World
• 1945-1991

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Origins

• Historical Antagonisms
• Ideological Differences
• Fractures in the Great Alliance
• Problem of Perceptionevents confirmed the worst

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End of World War II

• Yalta Conference
• Death of FDR
• Potsdam Conference
• Division of Germany
• Elections
• Need for securityunderstandable paranoia

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Division of Germany
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Evolving Strategies

• Collective Security Eastern EuropeWarsaw Pact
  Western EuropeNATO
• U. S. Strategy George KennanContainment
• Truman Doctrine
• Berlin Airlift
• Arms Race Super and Missiles

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Divided Europe along an Iron Curtain
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Cold War Become Global

• Mao and China
• Korean War
• Vietnam
• 3rd World
• Cuban Revolution

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Cold War Images
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Temporarily divided at the 17th parallel,
Vietnam became a quagmirethe Iraq of U.
S. policy in the 1960s
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KOREAN WAR
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926- ) Cuban
Revolution spurred fear of Communism in Western
Hemisphere
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Key Episodes (1950-1981)

• Berlin Blockade
• Hungarian Uprising
• U-2 Spy Plane
• EspionageJoe McCarthy
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Détente
• Re-escalation in late 1970
• El Salvador and Nicaraugua

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Sputnik1957 Apollo 111969 Taking the Cold War
to space
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• Ideology and mortality
• Star Wars
• Nationalities and economic problems in Soviet
  Union
• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• Arms Reduction Treaties
• Collapse of Berlin Wall

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Collapse of Berlin Wall, 1989. Boris Yeltsin
during 1991 Coup