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Title: The Cold War


1
The Cold War
  • A Bi-Polar and Dangerous World
  • 1945-1991

2
Origins
  • Historical Antagonisms
  • Ideological Differences
  • Fractures in the Great Alliance
  • Problem of Perceptionevents confirmed the worst

3
End of World War II
  • Yalta Conference
  • Death of FDR
  • Potsdam Conference
  • Division of Germany
  • Elections
  • Need for securityunderstandable paranoia

4
Division of Germany
5
Evolving Strategies
  • Collective Security Eastern EuropeWarsaw Pact
    Western EuropeNATO
  • U. S. Strategy George KennanContainment
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Arms Race Super and Missiles

6
Divided Europe along an Iron Curtain
7
Cold War Become Global
  • Mao and China
  • Korean War
  • Vietnam
  • 3rd World
  • Cuban Revolution

8
Cold War Images
9
Temporarily divided at the 17th parallel,
Vietnam became a quagmirethe Iraq of U.
S. policy in the 1960s
10
KOREAN WAR
11
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926- ) Cuban
Revolution spurred fear of Communism in Western
Hemisphere
12
Key Episodes (1950-1981)
  • Berlin Blockade
  • Hungarian Uprising
  • U-2 Spy Plane
  • EspionageJoe McCarthy
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Détente
  • Re-escalation in late 1970
  • El Salvador and Nicaraugua

13
Sputnik1957 Apollo 111969 Taking the Cold War
to space
14
  • Ideology and mortality
  • Star Wars
  • Nationalities and economic problems in Soviet
    Union
  • Glasnost
  • Perestroika
  • Arms Reduction Treaties
  • Collapse of Berlin Wall

15
Collapse of Berlin Wall, 1989. Boris Yeltsin
during 1991 Coup
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