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Post-WWII Major Themes

Post-WWII Major Themes. Cold War Massive military expenditures Rise of nuclear weapons. Crash Course: http:// www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI. Tension leading up to cold war.

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Post-WWII Major Themes

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  1. Post-WWII Major Themes • Cold War • Massive military expenditures • Rise of nuclear weapons Crash Course: http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI

  2. Tension leading up to cold war • Soviets occupied and installed communist governments in several eastern European countries • Stalin’s speech (1946) declaring that communism and capitalism could not exist in the same world • Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech • Germany’s split

  3. Hot Wars related to the Cold War

  4. Propaganda on both sides • Red Scare • http://www.designer-daily.com/examples-of-american-cold-war-propaganda-2918 • Soviet Propaganda • http://englishrussia.com/2006/09/20/soviet-propaganda-against-usa-posters/

  5. Containment

  6. Excerpt from Truman’s speech to Congress (March 12, 1947): “Our way of life is based upon the will of the majority and is distinguished by free institutions…free elections…and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression…fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free people, resisting attempted subjugation (control) by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”

  7. Marshall Plan

  8. NATO versus Warsaw Pact • NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): defensive military alliance • Warsaw Pact • Berlin Wall: symbol of a world divided into rival camps

  9. Warsaw Pact

  10. Other forms of cold war competition

  11. James Bond: popular culture was influenced by global conflicts http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=RaEU_A405zA

  12. Consumerism in the U.S.

  13. USSR Lag in Consumer Goods • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3z3eSVG7ARonald Reagan new car joke

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