COLD WAR 1945-1991

COLDWAR1945-1991

C O L D W A R – US VS USSR

Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR

Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism

In 1922, USSR was formed.

Lenin-Stalin-Khruschev-Brezhnev…Gorbachev

PRESIDENTS FDR NIXON Truman FORD Eisenhower CARTER Kennedy REAGAN Johnson BUSH 41

UNITED NATIONS *World organization to keep peace *Met in San Francisco *UN Security Council US

Great BritainFrance

USSRChina

C O L D W A R – US VS USSR

Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR

Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism Eastern Europe/Satellite nation/Eastern Bloc “Iron Curtain” Containment—US policy of blocking (or

containing) the spread of communism Truman Doctrine—**TURKEY & GREECE** US

would provide economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism

H-bomb

TRUMAN Iron Curtain Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan Berlin Crisis/Berlin Airlift Korean War/*limited war/*fired MacArthur (quote) McCarthy/McCarthyism Rosenburgs/Alger Hiss H-Bomb CIA NATO Red China Israel became a nation--198 HUAC Israel became a nation

C O L D W A R – US VS USSR

Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR

Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism Eastern Europe/Satellite nation/Eastern Bloc “Iron Curtain” Containment—US policy of blocking (or

containing) the spread of communism Truman Doctrine—**TURKEY & GREECE** US

would provide economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism

H-bomb

N

HUACHouse Un-American Committee

EISENHOWER Warsaw Pact Korean War/ceasefire Brinkmanship/MAD/Civil defense drills Secretary of State—John Foster Dulles Suez Canal—Egypt--Nasser, Israel, UN Eisenhower Doctrine Sputnik/Explorer I/NDEA Hungarian uprising U-2 incident Cuba and Castro Domino theory Military-Industrial Complex

KENNEDY Flexible Response Peace Corps Bay of Pigs Invasion Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Hot Line

DOMESTIC ISSUES

1. TRUMAN 2. EISENHOWER 3. KENNEDY 4. LBJ 5. NIXON 6. FORD 7. CARTER

TRUMAN FAIR DEAL LETTERS TO BESS DESEGREGATED THE

MILITARY-Exec Order # 9981 MCCARTHY HUAC

EISENHOWER Class Cartoon Baby Boom; Mom at home; TV dinner Highway Act 1956/interstate, suburbs Levittown Sun Belt-sunny states of s & sw RockNRoll-Elvis Presley Billy Graham Brown v. Brd of Ed/Rosa Parks/LRCrisis

KENNEDY Television Debate with Nixon New Frontier Attorney General-Robert (Bobby)

Kennedy Peace Corps John Glenn—1st American to orbit

earth Assassination—11/22/63 in Dallas,

TX *Lee Harvey Oswald; Warren Comm

LBJ Great Society/War on Poverty Kennedy’s VP/Election of 1964 Civil Rights of 1964/Voting Rights of

1965 Medicare—medical insurance for

over 65 Medicaid—medical insurance for

welfare Robert Weaver—1st black Cab Sec-

HUD Vietnam War—Gulf of Tonkin

Resolution Warren Court

President Lyndon Johnson chooses between two pens to sign legislation that created the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs

NIXON Détente-relaxing of tension between

US/USSR Woodstock-outdoor rock concert in Aug

‘69 Communist China visit Visit to USSR/Brezhnev-leader of USSR Henry Kissinger-NSA then Secretary of

State Spiro Agnew-VP who resigned Gerald Ford-new VP (appointed)

NIXON (cont) SALT-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

(treaty) ERA-Equal Rights Amendment/Roe v.

Wade Neil Armstrong-1st man on moon; quote Watergate-1st president to resign; quote Chappaquiddick-incident involving T.

Kennedy EPA-Environmental Protection Agency

F O R D “I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln” VP was Nelson Rockefeller 1st non-elected (appointed) pres South Vietnam fell to

communism Pardoned President Nixon Bicentennial celebration Khmer Rouge-communists in

Cambodia

C A R T E R From Georgia; family VP was Walter Mondale Iran Hostage Crisis-52;Teheran;

Shah;Attempt Camp David Accords-Israel&Egypt; leaders Invasion of Afghanistan by USSR

1980 Moscow Olympics boycott Panama Canal Treaty

1) Becomes Panama’s in 2000 2) US & Panama keep canal neutralThree Mile Island almost nuclear disaster

SHAH OF IRAN