The Cold War 19601991

1
The Cold War (1960-1991)

• U.S.
• versus
• Soviet Union

2
Kennedy Administration 1960-68

• 1959 Fidel Castro leads a successful takeover
  of Cuba.

3
Kennedy Administration

• 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion U.S. trained Cuban
  exiles fail to take island-Kennedy blamed for not
  providing air support.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1. Soviets to place nuclear missiles in Cuba.
• 2. Kennedy places a blockade on the island.
• 3. Nikita Kruschev removes missiles
• U.S. removes missiles from Turkey
• U.S. promises not to invade Cuba

4
Vietnam

• Vietnam Stop the spread of Communism in SE Asia.

5
Nixon 1968-1974

• Détente a warming of relations between the U.S.
  and the Soviet Union.
• Nixon practices realpolitik realistic politics
• Influenced by his National Security Advisor
  Henry Kissinger---based on power relations

6
Détente

• Nixon visits the Soviet Union and China.
• Gives China diplomatic recognition.
• SALT Treaty Reduction in nuclear weapons.
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

7
Jimmy Carter 1976-1980

• Relations turned sour when Soviets invade
  Afghanistan 1979.
• U.S. refuses to attend Summer Games in Moscow
  1980.
• U.S. supports anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan
  called Mujahadeen.
• Eventually these forces will defeat the Soviets.

8
Ronald Reagan 1980-1988

• Fierce Cold Warrior calls USSR an Evil Empire,
  leads to a massive arms race between these two
  countries.
• Mikhail Gorbachev leader of the Soviet Union in
  1984.

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Ronald Reagan 1980-1988

• Gorbachev changes the dynamic of correspondence.
• 1. Perestroika Economic changes in USSR.
• 2. Glasnost Cultural openness in USSR.
• Soviet Union goes broke and this leads to...

10
End of the Cold War

• 2. Fall of the Berlin Wall.
• 4. Velvet Revolution.
• 6. C.I.S.

• 1. Break-up of the Soviet Union.
• 3. Rise of Boris Yeltsin.
• 5. Break- up of Yugoslavia