The Cold War was the period of geopolitical tension and military buildup between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 to 1980. While the two superpowers never engaged in direct military conflict, they each mobilized their forces and established military alliances like NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Key events during the Cold War included the Yalta and Potsdam conferences dividing post-WWII Europe, the Berlin airlift and blockade, and rebellions against communist rule in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Did Reagan win the Cold War? Short presentation for a Seminar of American Foreign Policy, University of Newcastle 2014. The answer is, basically, not by himself.
Did Reagan win the Cold War? Short presentation for a Seminar of American Foreign Policy, University of Newcastle 2014. The answer is, basically, not by himself.
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Richard Nixon rose through the political ranks as a staunch anti-communist; however, the policy of his predecessors brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and brought the U.S. into an expensive and increasingly unpopular war.
Nixon embraced the policy of détente, a relaxing of tensions with the communist world. He negotiated the SALT I Treaty, established relations with Communist China, and established the Nixon Doctrine of assisting allies with money and weapons, but not with U.S. troops.
The Nixon Doctrine was applied in Vietnam with the Vietnamization of the war. Nixon declared “Peace with Honor” when the last U.S. troops left Vietnam, but Saigon fell to the communists just two years later.
Nixon employed the Madman Theory so that his adversaries would believe he was unpredictable.
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In the same month, the western part of Germany officially became a new
nation, the Federal Republic of Germany, also called West Germany. It included
West Berlin. A few months later, from its occupation zone, the Soviet Union creat-
ed the German Democratic Republic, called East Germany. It included East Berlin.
THE NATO ALLIANCE The Berlin
blockade increased Western European
fear of Soviet aggression. As a result,
ten Western European nations—
Belgium, Denmark, France, Great
Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg,
the Netherlands, Norway, and
Portugal—joined with the United
States and Canada on April 4, 1949, to
form a defensive military alliance
called the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO). (See map,
page 830.) The 12 members of NATO
pledged military support to one
another in case any member was
attacked. For the first time in its histo-
ry, the United States had entered into
a military alliance with other nations
during peacetime. The Cold War had
ended any hope of a return to U.S.
isolationism. Greece and Turkey joined
NATO in 1952, and West Germany
joined in 1955. By then, NATO kept a
standing military force of more than
500,000 troops as well as thousands of
planes, tanks, and other equipment.
814 CHAPTER 26
•United Nations (UN)
•satellite nation
•containment
•iron curtain
•Cold War
•Truman Doctrine
•Marshall Plan
•Berlin airlift
•North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
1. TERMS & NAMES For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance.
MAIN IDEA
2. TAKING NOTES
Use a graphic organizer like the one
below to describe the U.S. actions
and the Soviet actions that
contributed most to the Cold War.
Write a paragraph explaining which
country was more responsible and
why you think so.
CRITICAL THINKING
3. EVALUATING LEADERSHIP
People who had served as aides to
President Franklin Roosevelt worried
that Truman was not qualified to
handle world leadership. Considering
what you learned in this section,
evaluate Truman as a world leader.
Think About:
• his behavior toward Stalin
• his economic support of
European nations
• his support of West Berlin
4. MAKING INFERENCES
Which of the two superpowers do
you think was more successful in
achieving its aims during the period
1945–1949? Support your answer
by referring to historical events.
5. ANALYZING MOTIVES
What were Stalin’s motives in
supporting Communist governments
in Eastern Europe?
U.S. Actions Soviet
Actions
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This cartoon depicts the nations that signed the North Atlantic Pact,
which created NATO in 1949. The nations, shown as hats, are arranged
in a pyramid to show the bigger countries on the bottom supporting the
smaller, weaker nations on top.
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Superpowers Struggle over Germany
As Europe began to get back on its feet, the United States and its allies clashed
with the Soviet Union over the issue of German reunification. At the end of World
War II, Germany was divided into four zones occupied by the United States, Great
Britain, and France i.
1. What was the Cold War? Objective To be able to explain to someone who's never heard of it what the Cold War was. 8/1/08
2. Different types of diplomacy When negotiations take place between nations it is known as diplomacy . There are different types of diplomacy: Hot War : this is actual warfare. All talks have failed and the armies are fighting. Warm War : this is where talks are still going on and there would always be a chance of a peaceful outcome but armies, navies etc. are being fully mobilised and war plans are being put into operation ready for the command to fight. Cold War : this term is used to describe the relationship between America and the Soviet Union 1945 to 1980. Neither side ever fought the other - the consequences would have been too appalling.
3. We Didn’t Start The Fire on YouTube @ http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =bVi-HaCOxH4
4. 4 February 1945 Yalta Conference 17 July 1945 Potsdam Conference 6 August 1945 US drop atomic bomb on Hiroshima March 1946 Churchill’s ‘ Iron Curtain’ speech June 1947 The Marshall Plan offers aid to Europe January 1948 Britain, France & USA combine their areas of Berlin June 1948 Start of the ‘ Berlin airlift’ 1 March 1953 Stalin dies October 1956 People of Hungary rebel against Communist rule August 1961 The Berlin wall is constructed 31 July 1968 People of Czechoslovakia rebel against Communist rule 13 December 1981 Miners in Poland go on strike 9 November 1989 Berlin wall comes down Put these events onto a timeline!
5. The Cold War – Episode 1 (I’ll probably put this on Google Video)