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Chap 26 – Sections 2 & 4
The Cold War goes HOT
Key Terms / Main IdeasExplain the growing tensions between the United
States and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.
The LONG TELEGRAMContainment – Truman DoctrineMarshall PlanBerlin Airlift NATO / Warsaw PactSputnikBrinkmanship / massive retaliationCovert Ops / CIA
Soviet expansionist behavior
Iran / Turkey / Greece 1947USSR flexing muscle – USA
responds$400MM to resist CommunismShip deployment to the “Med”Truman Doctrine
“aid free peoples….from armed minorities.”
The Long Telegram - Feb 1946 from
US embassy in Moscow Russian insecurity/ Fear of the West Ideas of Stalin & Lenin – communists in
an historic struggle against capitalism
Impossible to reach long-term agreement
Containment Policy - Diplomatic / Economic / Military
Marshall Plan – Jun’47Sect State George C
MarshallRebuild EuropeSatellite nations reject it
West Germany 19483 western sectors mergedNew government &
economyUSSR cuts off Berlin - Jun’48Berlin Airlift until Apr ‘49
NATOMutual aid in case of attackWarsaw Pact
China falls Oct ’49China & USSR alliance early
’50US encourages rapid
Japanese recovery
Cold to HOT Jun 1950
Post WWII Korea splitUSSR in North / USA in SouthNorth invades SouthTruman Containment PolicyUN intervenes
Back and ForthPusan / Inchon / ChosinMacArthur wants to expand warTruman fires MacArthur
Peace talks begin Nov ’51Armistice Jul ‘53Still at “war”Major changes
Military build-up, Asia, Indo-China
Eisenhower elected 1952“Massive
retaliation”Reduce military $Nuclear
capabilities Long-range B-52’s ICBM Submarines
Sputnik – USSR Satellite Oct ’57 – Space Race - NASA
“Brinkmanship” = who will blink first – willingness to go to the “brink” of war
Taiwan - 1953China might invadeIke warns against it
Suez - 1956Egypt seizes canalBrits / French
invadeUSSR threatensIke warns against itSoviet influence in
ME grows
Covert Ops - CIASecret aidIran ‘53 /
Guatemala ‘54
Hungary 1956KhrushchevRebellion
crushed
Ike hints at nuclear war
several times
Ya’ll gone done it now…..Khrushchev upset at West for Hungary
“We will bury capitalism….your grandchildren will live under communism”
USSR want West out of Berlin – US says NO!Ike invites Khrushchev to meet in Paris – 1960 U2 – not the band – the plane – Francis Gary
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