2. Student Learning Outcomes
Identify specific events and actions
which initiated the Cold War between
the United States and the Soviet Union.
Characterize the general mistrust
between the two nation states.
Link the disagreements at the Potsdam
conference to the beginning of the Cold
War.
3. Introduction
“The personal meeting with Stalin
enabled me to see what the West
had to face in the future. Force is
the only thing the Russians
understand. Stalin showed what he
was after ... the Russians were
planning world conquest.”
President Harry Truman
4. Origins of the Cold War
Soviet Union after World War II
More than twenty million lives lost in the
war
Wanted to retain control of the nations
states in Eastern Europe
Promotion of Communism abroad into
Europe
Inherit distrust of the West (the conflict of
the second front during the war and
previous episodes)
5. Origins of the Cold War
United States after the World War II
Conflict among President Harry Truman
and his Cabinet about whether or not to go
back to isolationism like World War One
Bring the boys home
Seen as the protector of Europe
The superpower that stood against the
Soviet Union
6. Potsdam Conference (1945)
July 17 -August 2
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The Triumvirate Cast:
U.S. President Harry Truman
President Franklin Roosevelt had died in
April
England’s Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill had been defeated in
the last election
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin
7. The Potsdam Conference
Soviet establishment of satellite states (buffer
zone or expansion)
The atomic bomb disclosure
The issue of the second front
The continual distrust between the Soviet Union
and the West
The Cultural and Economic difference between
the two institutions
The development of the Cold War
8. Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain Speech
Made in at the College at
Westminster College at Fulton
Missouri
Distrust of Joseph Stalin and
Totalitarian regimes in Eastern
Europe
Pressed the U.S. to remain active in
Western Europe
9. Iron Curtain Speech
He pressed for U.S. presence in
post war Europe
No abandonment like the first
European War
Joint Anglo unification that
opposed Soviet Communism
10. The Berlin Airlift
“When Berlin falls, Western
Germany will be next. If we
withdraw our position in Berlin,
Europe is threatened ...
Communism will run rampant.”—
General Clay the American
Commander of the Berlin Zone
11. The American Response
Greece and Turkey
Communist insurgents verses nationalist
The Civil War
England and France contributed aid
The well was running dry
President Harry Truman and George Kennan
The Policy of Containment (Truman
Doctrine)
12. The American Response
The Marshall Plan
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Unification of the zones of Berlin
The Soviet Response cutting off all aid to the
area
The Berlin Airlift
This is a sign of item to come in regards to
deterrence
13. The United Nations
Similarities to the League of Nations
However there are significant
differences
U.S. and the Soviet Union hoped to
establish a open dialogue
The Security Council
Condemnation of Imperialism
14. The fate of Western Europe
England, France, Netherlands, Belgium,
Scandinavia, and even Italy turn to Socialism
The creation of the Welfare State
What this means for Western Europe
The push towards decolnialization
India, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East
The Jewish State
15. Truman verses Stalin
The shift of China to Communism
The retreat to Formosa (Taiwan)
The Korean Crisis
President Truman deploys the military
General Macarthur
Congress is not consulted however, UN
security council approves
16. The Korean War
Stalemate
Korea becomes split in two
The question of containment
U.S. response back home and the
blacklisting
Are their differences or just two
stubborn nations
17. The Cold War post Stalin
The death of Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev and his
condemnation of Stalin’s policies
New relations with the United States
Khrushchev visit to the U.S.
Shift in Cold War Tactics
John Foster Dulles “Spirit of
Resistance”
18. The Middle East
Removal of European presence
Complicated area/the issue of tribes and oil
The problem of Israel
Israel attack on the Gaza strip and the
response by Egypt
Nassar “Cotton for Arms” dealings with the
Soviet Union
France, Britain, Israel, Soviet Union, U.S.
21. Soviet and U.S. Relations
The U-2 Spy Plane affair
Khrushchev and Kennedy
The issue of Berlin
Once again both sides go to the brink
East and West Berlin
The Berlin Wall
22. The Cuban Missile Crisis
Background
Castro switches to Communism
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Soviet Relations (Sugar for Missiles)
U.S. response
The closest we come to a Cold War
23. Southeast Asian Affairs
Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
Chinese Soviet Relations
Mao Ze Tong and President Richard Nixon
Justification for opening the relations
24. U.S. Soviet Relations post Vietnam
The promotion of Dentate
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger
SALT talks (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)
The Six Day War in the Middle East
The issue this will promote between the two
25. Russian Moves into Southeast
Asia
Afghanistan
The Resistance
The pinnacle of Russian Strength
26. The ending of the Cold War
Conservatism in the West: Election of both
Margret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan
Pope John Paul II
Breakdown in East European Control
Mikhail Gorbachev and Glasnost
Talks with Reagan in Iceland
27. The End of the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Free Elections in the Eastern Europe
The Unification of Germany as well as Berlin
The failed coup in Russia
The Communist State Disintegrates
The shift to autocracy
28. The End of the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Free Elections in the Eastern Europe
The Unification of Germany as well as Berlin
The failed coup in Russia
The Communist State Disintegrates
The shift to autocracy