Cold War Part II

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Cold War (Part II)

• New World Order UN Nukes
• Hot Spots
• Hungary (56)
• Berlin (61)
• Cuba (62)
• Vietnam
• Arms Race
• Détente SALT
• Bipolar World
• European Unity
• Communist Bloc

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UN Security Council

• 5 permanent members
• US, USSR, Great Britain, France, China
• Each with veto power
• Decisions must be enforced
• 10 more countries serve 2-year terms

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Berlin Wall
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Vietnam

• French colony until 1954
• Battle of Dienbienphu
• US sends advisers
• Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964)
• Pleiku Incident
• By 1967, 500,000 US troops and more tons of bombs
  than in all theaters of WWII
• Death toll
• 1.2 million Vietnamese
• 58,000 Americans

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Détente

• SALT I
• Limit on ICBMs
• MIRVs
• MAD
• SALT II

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Bipolar World

• West European Unity
• OEEC to EU

• Communist Bloc
• Economically stagnant

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Exam 3

• 50 multiple choice
• 1 50-point essay
• Totalitarianism
• Define how is it antithesis of liberalism?
• Examples
• Why did it succeed in Europe? How did it fail?
• Russia
• How did it become a superpower?
• What role did it play in WWII?
• Who started the Cold War?