Unit 7 The Cold War and African Decolonization

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Unit 7The Cold Warand African Decolonization
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The Cold War

• An ideological conflict between the United States
  and the Soviet Union in which neither nation
  directly confronted the other on the battlefield

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Capitalism Communism

• An economic system in which all means of
  production land, factories, railroads, and
  businesses are owned by the people, private
  property does not exist, and all goods and
  services are shared equally

• An economic system based on private ownership and
  on the investment of money in business ventures
  in order to make a profit

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The Start of the Cold War

• Either
• The Yalta Conference (Feb. 45)
• Division of Germany/Berlin
• Reparations to USSR by Germany
• Free E. European elections
• Dropping the bomb (Aug. 45)

The Big Three
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June 1945

• Creation of the United Nations
• Replaces the FAILED League of Nations
• World peace-keeping body

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Potsdam Conference July 1945

• Stalin Communism and capitalism cannot exist
  in the same world. War between the two is
  inevitable.
• Reneges on his promises from Yalta

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Germany and Berlin

• Divided into two parts, East and West
• East Germany, East Berlin Soviet control
• West Germany, West Berlin Allied control
• 1961 Berlin Wall a symbol of the Cold War

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Warsaw Pact - 1955

• Iron Curtain Churchill March 1946
• Warsaw Pact alliance btwn Soviet satellite
  countries to protect against Capitalist attack

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Cold War in the 50s and 60s

• Korea and Vietnam Containment and the Domino
  Effect
• Hungarian and Czech uprising
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Bay of Pigs
• Brinkmanship
• Space race
• Arms Race

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Larry Bowler Recent American History
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Cold War in the 70s and 80s

• Many reforms to limit nuclear weapons build up
• Still great tension (Afghanistan)
• Nixon Regan Détente, A lessening of tensions
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Glasnost- Openness btwn US USSR
• Perestoika- economic restructuring of Soviet
  system

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End of the Cold War

• European Union (EU) stimulate economic growth of
  participating countries
• Collapse of Communist govts
• Fall of Berlin Wall (1989)
• USSR become Commonwealth of Independent States
  (CIS) (1991)
• Today? Russia? China? Cuba? Vietnam? Korea?

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Choice of Assignments 1 35 points

• For this assignment, you must choose one of the
  events we have discussed in class concerning the
  Cold War and write a newspaper article describing
  the events.

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Choice of Assignments 235 points

• Draw political two cartoons of the same COLD WAR
  event that show
• Communism from the U.S. point of view
• AND
• Capitalism from the Soviet point of view

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Cold War Caricatures
Joseph Stalin
Harry Truman
Nikita Krushchev
Mao Zedong
Fidel Castro
JFK
Ronald Reagan
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Russia, China, Korea, Vietnam, Cuba today?
Articles from different perspectives
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African Independence

• Decolonization after 1946
• Third World Countries
• the underdeveloped nations of the world, esp.
  those with widespread poverty.
• the group of developing nations, esp. of Asia and
  Africa, that do not align themselves with the
  policies of either the U.S. or the former Soviet
  Union.

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Problems in Newly Independent Countries

• Still rely on cash crops
• Lack of industrial growth
• Ethnic cultural conflicts
• South Africa Apartheid
• A rigid policy of segregation of the non-white
  population

Nelson Mandela
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Genocide

• Rwanda
• Hutus v Tutsis
• Cultural clashes
• Over 1 million dead
• Darfur
• Sudan
• Never again?

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