The cold war 1945 1990

The Cold War 1945-1990US vs Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Definition

• A political, strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union.

• Spread throughout the world-Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Discussion

Communism vs. Democracy

Socialism vs. Capitalism

Causes of the Cold War

• Different political systems-US is based on democracy, capitalism and freedom-USSR is based on dictatorship, communism and control

• Both thought their system was better and distrusted the others intentions

• Stalin despised capitalism

Causes of Cold War

• Stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections at the Yalta Conference

• American fear of a communist attack(Red Scare) and USSR’s fear of a US attack

• USSR’s fear of the atomic bomb• USSR’s actions in their German zone • USSR’s goal to spread communism around the world• This feeling of suspicion lead to mutual distrust and this did

a great deal to deepen the Cold War

Stalin and Hitler

Yalta Conference Feb 1945

Yalta ConferenceFeb 1945

• Before the end of the World War II, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met at Yalta to plan what should happen when the war ended. They agreed on many points:

1. The establishment of the United Nations.

2. Germany to be divided into four zones.

3. Free elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe.

4. Russia promised to join the war against Japan.

Post WWII/Cold War Goals for US

• Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression

• Promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa

• Stop the spread of communism

Post WWII/Cold War Goals for the USSR

• Wanted to create greater security for itself

-lost tens of millions of people in WWII and Stalin’s purges

-feared a strong Germany• Establish defensible borders• Encourage friendly governments on its borders• Spread communism around the world

Key Terms

• Iron Curtain Speech

• Domino Theory(Effect)

• Policy of Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Brinkmanship

• Massive retaliation/Mutual Deterrence/Mutual Assured Destruction

• NATO vs. Warsaw Pact

• CIA vs. KGB

• Peaceful coexistence

• De-Stalinization

• Detente

• Perestroika

• Glasnost

• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963

• Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty 1968

• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks(Treaty)-1972

• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 1972

United Nations

• Bright Blue-1945 original members• Dark Blue-1946-1959• Bright Green-1960-1989• Dark Green-1990-present

Lenin Dies

Stalin

Winston Churchill “Iron Curtain” Speech

• “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone -- Greece with its immortal glories -- is free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation. The Russian-dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place. The Communist parties, which were very small in all these Eastern States of Europe, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in Czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy.”

Truman Doctrine

• In 1947 the British were helping the Greek government fight against communist guerrillas.

• They appealed to America for aid, and the response was the Truman Doctrine.

• America promised it would support free countries to help fight communism.

• Greece received large amounts of arms and supplies, and by 1949 had defeated the communists.

• The Truman Doctrine was significant because it showed that America was prepared to resist the spread of communism throughout the world.

Marshall Plan• In 1947, US Secretary of State

Marshall announced the Marshall Plan.

• This was a massive economic aid plan for Europe to help it recover from the damage caused by the war.

• There were two motives for this: – Helping Europe to

recover economically would provide markets for American goods, so benefiting American industry.

– A prosperous Europe would be better able to resist the spread of communism. This was the main motive.

1948 Election Truman vs. Dewey

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1948 Election

The Berlin Crisis-(June 1948-May 1949)

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• In 1948, the three western controlled zones of Germany's(US,France, UK) were united, and grew in prosperity due to Marshal Aid.

• The west wanted the east to rejoin, but Stalin feared it would hurt Soviet security.

• In June 1948, Stalin decided to try to gain control of West Berlin which was deep inside the eastern sector.

• He cut road, rail and canal links with West Berlin, hoping to starve it into submission.

• The west responded by airlifting in the necessary supplies to allow west Berlin to survive.

• In May 1949, Russia admitted defeat and lifted the blockade.

Alger Hiss Trial

Alger Hiss Trial• In 1948, Alger Hiss was accused of being

a member of a Communist cell whose purpose had been to infiltrate the U.S. government

• Hiss vigorously maintained innocence. • In 1949, the trial ended with a

deadlocked jury- 8-4 in favor of conviction.

• The second trial began on later in 1949, and ended two months later in early 1950,

• The new jury found Hiss guilty

• Hiss' conviction was later upheld by the Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Hiss served five years in prison.• In 1992, a former Soviet intelligence

officer said that Hiss was not a Soviet spy, but rather a victim of Cold War hysteria.

NATO• In 1949 the western nations formed the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization to co-ordinate their defense against Russia.

• NATO was a defensive alliance• This was the first peacetime alliance in

US History• It consisted of:

-America, Canada, Britain, France, Holland, BelgiumLuxembourg, Portugal, Denmark, Norway and Italy

• Still around today

NATO vs. Warsaw Pact

East and West Germany

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USSR’s First Atomic Test

Chiang Kai Shek vs. Mao Zedong

Senator Joe McCarthy

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McCarthyism• Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) was a

Republican Senator from Wisconsin

• In 1950, he gave a speech where he claimed to have a list of 205 Communists in the State Department

• No one in the press actually saw the names on the list, but McCarthy's announcement made national news and caused panic throughout the country

• McCarthy became one of the most powerful people in the US

Supporters of McCarthy

1. Republicans

2. Catholics

3. Conservative Protestants

4. Blue-collar workers

5. Joseph and Robert Kennedy

McCarthy’s Downfall

• In the spring of 1954, McCarthy charged the US Army had promoted a dentist accused of being a Communist.

• For the first time, television broadcast allowed the general public to see the Senator as a blustering bully and his investigations as little more than a misguided scam.

• In late 1954, the Senate voted to censure him for his conduct and to strip him of his privileges.

• McCarthy died three years later from alcoholism.• The term "McCarthyism" lives on to describe anti-

Communist fervor, reckless accusations, and guilt by association.

US Test Hydrogen Bomb-1952

• 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb

• Set off on Bikini Island in the Marshall Islands

1952 Eisenhower vs. Stevenson

1952 Presidential Election

Stalin Dies-1953

Nikita Khrushchev Takes Over

• Talks of peaceful co-existence and de-stalinization.

• Discuss massive retaliation and mutual deterrence

1956 Eisenhower vs. Stevenson

1956 Election

USSR Launches Sputnik

Fidel Castro Overthrows Batista

Francis Gary Powers Shot Down in USSR

Eisenhower Embarrassment

• Khrushchev:

• “I must tell you a secret. When I made my first report I deliberately did not say that the pilot was alive and well… and now just look how many silly things [the Americans]” have said.

1960 Election Kennedy vs. Nixon

First Televised Debate

1960 Election Map

Yuri Gagarin

Berlin Wall-1961

Brandenberg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie

Why was the Wall Built?

• What did the USSR want?

Bay of Pigs

Bay of Pigs

Bay of Pigs

• What was it?

• What were the results?

• How did it hurt President Kennedy?

Cuban Missile Crisis

Range of Soviet Missiles Launched From Cuba

Thirteen Days

• Be able to describe what happened in the crisis.

• Be able to describe the different choices that Kennedy had to choose from in dealing with this threat.

• Be able to explain the compromise that was reached to end the crisis.

• Be able to explain how this crisis was an example of brinkmanship.

JFK Killed, Johnson President

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1964 Election Johnson vs. Goldwater

Leonid Brezhnev

1968 Election Nixon vs. Humphreyvs. Wallace

Kent St. Massacre

• The Kent State Massacre occurred at Kent State University in the Kent, Ohio on May 4, 1970

• The incident was the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard

• The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others

• Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30

• There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of colleges and high schools closed throughout the US due to a student strike of four million students

• The event further affected the negative public opinion over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War

Nixon Visits China

Nixon Visits Moscow

Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev toasted United States President Richard Nixon in Moscow, marking the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty on May 26, 1972.

SALT I TREATY

• SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels

• Limited new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

• FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:RICHARD NIXONPresident of the United States of America

FOR THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS:L.I. BREZHNEVGeneral Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU

1972 Election Nixon vs. McGovern

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Watergate

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

Mark Felt-Deep Throat

Nixon Resigns, Ford is President

1976 Election Gerald Ford vs. Jimmy Carter

Russia Invades Afghanistan

1980 Election Jimmy Carter vs. Ronald Reagan

Yuri Andropov-USSR Leader-1982

SDI- “Star Wars”

How it Missile Defense System Works

• CNN.com - Pentagon: Missile defense test successful - March 16, 2002

Chernenko Takes Over in USSR

1984 Election Reagan vs. Mondale

Mikhail Gorbachev Comes to Power in USSR

INF Treaty

1988 Election Bush vs. Dukakis

Berlin Wall Comes DownNov. 9, 1989

Boris Yeltsin-President of Russia

Discussion

• Why did the US win the Cold War?

• Why did the USSR lose the Cold War?

1. We had close ties with our Allies and the USSR didn’t.

2. China started siding with us after 1972.

3. The Soviet economy was in shambles whereas the US’s was flourishing.

1. Huge deficit

2. High inflation

3. Corruption

4. Social problems

5. Shortage of basic needs(food, housing)

4. The strong anti-communist presidency of Reagan.

5. Gorbachev’s willingness for change and reform.1. glasnost and perestroika2. admitted Soviet mistakes3. took blame for the Cold War4. communist system had failed**5. allowed Eastern Europe to do what they wanted**

6. Arms Reduction Talks1. SALT, INF, Reagan-Gorbachev meetings

7. Soviet Mistakes

1. invasion of Afghanistan

2. ignoring social concerns

3. spent everything on military

Post-Cold War

• In the 1990’s, the world seemed to be a much more peaceful place

• President Clinton closed down numerous military bases around the country reducing the size of the US military

• 9-11 caught the US off guard

Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary Join NATO-1999

Putin New Leader in Russia-1999-2008 and 2012-??

Russia vs. Ukraine-2014

• Ukraine wanted to join the European Union but leader did not want to as he was Pro-Russia

• Ukrainian leader is forced out

• Russia moves troops in the Crimean Peninsula and annexes it after Crimean voters vote to approve annexation

• The United Nations declares this act by Russia as illegal

We Didn’t Start the Fire