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The Cold War was a period of hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945-1991. The main reasons for the Cold War were the ideological differences between capitalism in the Western world led by the US and communism in the Eastern bloc led by the USSR. This led both sides to form military alliances and engage in a nuclear arms race in a strategy known as containment and brinkmanship to influence other countries and prevent the spread of the opposing system. The Cold War ended in the late 1980s as communism fell in Eastern Europe.
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Cold war Part 1
- 1. Cold War 1. Reasonsfor the Cold War 2. Actions of the Cold War 3. The end of the Cold War
- 2. Part 1: Reasons •Your goal: Be able to explain why the Cold War happened.
- 3. What does “cool”mean? Why would a war be called “cold”? What does temperature have to do with anything?
- 4. What Is aCold War? • No actual battle between the countries at war. • THE Cold War was the period of hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union 1945-1991.
- 5. How did theCold War start?
- 6. What are somereasons for the USSR to dislike the US? • The US did not join WWI until after Russia had to quit. • The US did not join WWII until after USSR had lost millions of lives.
- 7. What are somereasons for the US to dislike the USSR? • The USSR signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler. • The USSR was communist.
- 8. The biggest reasonfor the Cold War: Communism versus Capitalism
- 9. Capitalism vs. Communism •Free elections • One-party state • Multiple political • Businesses owned parties by the state • Businesses owned • No different social classes by individuals • Government • Different social controls people’s classes lives • Freedom of speech • Strong censorship
- 10. Capitalism vs. Communism •You can create a • No matter how hard business, make lots your neighbor of money, and have works, he will never more things than make more money than you. other people. • It’s not fair for some • Some people get people to be rich. It could be you! wealthy, while others starve.
- 11. Which country wascommunist? Which countries were capitalist? and many more.
- 13. The Cold Warbegins … Yalta Conference 1945 WWII Yes, but isn’t over we need yet. to plan ahead. Germany did not surrender until May 1945, but the Allies met at Yalta in February 1945 to discuss the end of the war.
- 14. Yalta Conference 1945 How will we rebuild How will we How will punish we keep Europe? Germany? world peace?
- 15. Yalta Conference 1945 Thethree major results of this conference were: • United Nations • Dismemberment of Germany • Reparations
- 16. United Nations • TheLeague of Nations failed • The United Nations was the new and improved version • Differences: – More members worldwide – More military force to keep peace
- 17. How to dealwith Germany: Two main goals: • Keep Germany weak • Make sure it can pay for the damage
- 18. Keep Germany Weak •Germany cannot be trusted • Dismember* it so it is remains weak • The Allies will divide Germany into four parts and keep military control over it. * Dismember: to take apart
- 19. Iron Curtain – Aterm used by Winston Churchill to describe the separating of Those communist lands of East Europe from the West.
- 20. Reparations • After WWI,Germany had to pay 32 billion marks. • What was the result? * Reparations: payment for damages
- 21. Reparations • After WWII,the Allies would get “paid” by whatever their portion of Germany produced. • Factories, mines, labor, etc.
- 22. The Marshall Plan •US Secretary of • The US would loan State George them money to help Marshall, 1947 them rebuild. • He proposed financial aid for all of • This money would the needy European be spent on countries. American products, so it was profitable, to the US.
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- 24. Keep my neighbors Soviet opposition communist! • The Soviet Union did not want countries in Eastern Europe to accept this money. • Economic involvement with the United States was dangerous to communism.
- 25. Soviet Fear • TheSoviet Union did not want Germany to rebuild. • Why wouldn’t they want that?
- 26. Iron Curtain – Aterm used by Winston Churchill to describe the separation of communist lands of East Europe from the West.
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- 28. Two sides ofCold War • NATO – North • Warsaw Pact – Atlantic Treaty pro Soviet Organization countries – • USA, France, USSR, and all Great Britain, countries West Germany controlled by the • CAPITALISM USSR. • COMMUNISM
- 29. Cold War goals •the United States • the Soviet Union wanted countries to wanted countries to be capitalist and be communist democratic
- 30. NATO – NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization US alliance with Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland
- 31. Warsaw Pact USSR alliancewith East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania
- 32. Containment • This wasthe foreign Contain policy of US Communism! President Harry Truman. Keep communism from spreading to other countries.
- 33. Brinkmanship* • Going to the edge of war, without actually starting any fighting. • How far can you push it, before someone calls your bluff? *Brink: the edge of something
- 34. Why Brinkmanship? • Warbetween the The superpowers want to avoid superpowers would almost direct war between them. certainly involve nuclear weapons. • Millions would be killed. • No one wins a nuclear war
- 35. Why Brinkmanship? Mutually AssuredDestruction • The USSR eventually had the same nuclear weapons power as the US. • Both sides could destroy the other many times. No one wins.