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1945-1972
Early Cold War
Capitalism vs. Communism
Capitalism Communism
Free-Market Economy Government Controlled Economy
Upper, Middle and Working Class Classless Society
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Warsaw Pact
United States Soviet Union
Yalta Conference• Poland to hold free
elections
• Declaration of a Liberated Europe- "the right of all people to chose the form of government under which they live."
Big Three
Allied Powers US, Britain, Russia
Axis Powers Germany, Italy, Japan
"...an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent." -Winston Churchill
Satellite Nations
One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland,
Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary....One can ask, therefore, what can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security for the future, tries to achieve
that these countries should have governments whose relations to the Soviet Union are loyal?
- Joseph Stalin
Division of Germany
Soviet Union- wants heavy reparations from Germany
U.S. and Britain- want to rebuild Germany
Policy of Containment
George Keenen"Long Telegram"
If the U.S. could quarantine/contain communism it could
defeat it.
Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey 400 million dollars without military forces
Marshall Plan 13 billion dollars over 4 years to rebuild Europe
Korean War3 year war fought to prevent North Korea from invading
capitalist South Korea
"The policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or
outside pressures."
The Marshall PlanU.S. Aid (in Millions)
Great Britain
France
Italy
West Germany
Holland
0 750 1500 2250 3000
877
1,297
1,316
2,445
2,826
Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949
• Stalin closed all roads and railways into West Berlin in an attempt to control all of Berlin.
• Truman responds by flying food and supplies for 327 days- 277,000 flights delivered 2.3 million tons of supplies
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Warsaw Pact
U.S. Defense Budget
1949- U.S. loses Ground in Cold War
• 1949- Communist forces led by Mao Zedong take control of China
• 1949- Soviet Union gets Atomic Bomb capability
Mao Zedong
Korean War, 1950-1953North Korea invades
South KoreaAttempting to unite
Korea as one Communist Nation
US IntervenesAs they saw North
Korean aggression as a test of containment
MacArthur pushes NK back past 38th
China enters war as MacArthur pushes to
Yalu River
Truman fires MacArthur
"There is no substitute for victory"
President Eisenhower ends war
Eisenhower ends long costly war
38th Parallel
36,400 Americans killed in Korean War
Eisenhower's "New Look"Massive Retaliation
"Brinksmanship"
Threaten to use nuclear weapons to prevent communism from
spreading
Arms build up "More bang for the buck"
CIA- Central Intelligence Agency
Use of covert action against spread of
Communism (Latin America)
Eisenhower DoctrinePromised to support
Mid Easr from Communism
President Eisenhower (R) 1952-1960
CIA, Guatemala Jacobo Arbenz Democratically elected in 1961
begins land reform initiative
Land Reform (Redistribution)
2% owned 70% of land and were using just 12%
100,000 families given land
United Fruit Company(American owned)
Owned 42% of arable land Were paid $3 per acre but
wanted $75
Guatemala purchased arms From Communist Czechoslovakia
CIA- Coup d'état CIA trains and arms rebel army to overthrow Arbenz
The American Vision, p 800
The Americans, p 624
Space Race
• 1957 Soviets launch Sputnik into space
• 1958 U.S. begins N.A.S.A.
• 1969 U.S. puts man a on the moon
Neil Armstrong- first man on the moon
Apollo Program-Spends 24 Billion
The Second Red Scare• Height of WWII 80,000
Americans considered claimed membership in thr Communist Party
• Remember 1949- Soviets get A-Bomb and China Falls to Communism
• Rosenbergs convicted and executed 1953 for espionage
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Fall-Out Shelter
The Second Red ScareLoyalty Review Board-
set up by Truman to investigate the loyalty of government employees. 212
dismissed, 2,900 resigned
HUAC- investigated thr public as well as
government employees. Most famous for investigating Hollywood for possible Communist sympathy
McCarthyism-Intense fear that Communism had
infiltrated out government
Joseph McCarthy
RISE-McCarthy claimed to have a list
with as many as 205 communists that worked for the government
Fall- McCarthy accused U.S. Army
officials of being Communists. He did this during nationally
televised senate hearings. McCarthy lost the support of the
public
Kennedy and The Cold War
Bay of Pigs-
Berlin Wall-
Cuban Missile Crisis-
Peace Corps-
Bobby and John Kennedy
Bay of Pigs, 1961
• 1,400 Cuban exiles (LaBrigda) trained by the CIA planned a secret attack at the Bay of Pigs
Failed attack further Alienates Fidel Castro
Kennedy's indecision emboldens Nikita Khrushchev as he views Kennedy as a weak leader