7/28/2019 Cold War Summary
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Purpose: To make sure that you understand the Cold War.
Directions: Complete the following through annotation.
Standard: 10.9
Subject: Cold War
Even though the U.S. and the USSR fought on the same side during
WWII, both had different goals for
the world after the war. The U.S., the USSR, and Great Britain
met at Yalta, and outlined their goals
for after the war. The US wanted worldwide capitalism. The USSR
wanted worldwide communism.This led to a competition between the
two for power over the world. In 1947, Harry Truman, president
of the U.S. outlined the main ideas in his speech called the
Truman Doctrine. His speech discussed
how the U.S. should help Greece and Turkey in fighting
communism, and should help all other
countries fighting communism. The Marshall Plan was also set up.
It gave money to countries inWestern Europe so that they would
re-build as capitalistic countries. This led to most of Western
Europe becoming capitalist, and most of Eastern Europe becoming
communist. The division between
the East and West was described was the Iron Curtain.
During this time, the U.S. invaded several countries to try to
make them capitalist. One of the most
famous cases was Vietnam. After World War II, Vietnam wanted to
become an independent country. Itwas led by Ho Chi Minh, who was
both a communist and a nationalist. The people loved him
because
he was giving the farmers land. However, the U.S. hated him
because he was communist. The U.S.
believed that if Vietnam became communist, other countries would
also. This was called the DominoTheory (the other countries would
fall like dominos). This led to the U.S. getting involved. The
U.S.
tried to make Ngo Dinh Diem the leader of Vietnam, but the
people of Vietnam did not want this. So
the U.S. tried to send troops into Vietnam to fight the Vietcong
(communist army). The Vietcong had
the advantage of knowing the area better, and there were massive
protest in the U.S. against the war.The U.S. lost the war, and
57,000 U.S. troops died. Over 2 million Vietnamese people died as
well.
While the U.S. was trying to expand its power, the USSR could
just barely keep control of thecountries in the Warsaw Pact. In
Hungary, the people, led by Imre Nagy, protested to have free
elections. The USSR came in and stopped the rebellion, and
killed Nagy. Czechoslovakia also rebelled
when its communist leader, Alexander Dubcek, wanted to end
censorship of the newspapers. This ledto an invasion by the Warsaw
Pact nations. Furthermore, communist East Germany pushed and
protested to end the division of the city of Berlin by the
Berlin Wall. Egon Krenz, the leader of East
Germany hoped to end the protest by allowing for the destruction
of the wall. Instead this led to the
unification of Germany under capitalism. Lastly, when the
communist party of Russia tried to kick outthe popular leader,
Mikhail Gorbachev, people had huge rallies that led to the collapse
of Russia. This
was the official end of the Cold War.
Cold War Summary
Vocabulary
Communism Capitalism US USSR
Warsaw Pact NATO Yalta Pact Marshall Plan
Vietnam Truman Doctrine Vietcong Ho Chi Minh
Hungary Czechoslovakia Iron Curtain
