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Cold War (1945-1989)

Cold War (1945-1989). Cold War Begins (1945-1989). What is a “Cold War?” Why? How did the US and USSR compete? Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945) United Nations General Assembly Security Council Potsdam Conference (July 1945) Buffer States/Satellite States “Iron Curtain”. Yalta Conference.

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Cold War (1945-1989)

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  1. Cold War (1945-1989)

  2. Cold War Begins (1945-1989) • What is a “Cold War?” Why? • How did the US and USSR compete? Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945) • United Nations • General Assembly • Security Council Potsdam Conference (July 1945) • Buffer States/Satellite States • “Iron Curtain” Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference

  3. Increasing Cold War Tensions Containment Policy • Truman Doctrine • Domino Theory • Marshall Plan • Deterrence • NATO • Warsaw Pact • “Third World”—nonaligned nations

  4. Increasing Cold War Tensions Brinkmanship • “MAD” • Arms Race • Space Race Berlin Blockade (1948) • Berlin Wall (1961)

  5. “Duck and Cover” FEMA Map http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

  6. Communism in China Ch. 33.2 9p.972-975) and 35.5 (p.1059-1063) What factors triggered the Chinese civil war? How did Mao turn the tide of the civil war? How did the Cold War contribute to Jiang’s survival? What were the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution? What were the Four Modernizations? How has China changed since the policies were implemented? What was the Tiananmen Square massacre?

  7. China’s Dynasty Ends Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) • Qing (1644-1912) • Nationalist Party • May Fourth Movement Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) Jiang Jieshi Sun Yixian

  8. Communism in China Mao Zedong • Peasant Revolution • Long March (1933) • Truce (1938) • Civil War (1946-1949) • “One China Policy”

  9. Communism in China

  10. Communism in China China Under Mao • Agricultural Policy • Agrarian Reform Law (1949) “1st Stage” • 5-Year Plan (1953) • Great Leap Forward (1958) • Collectivization “2nd Stage” • Cultural Revolution (1966) • Red Guards

  11. Communism in China

  12. Communism in China

  13. Cold War Conflict Kim Il Sung r. 1948-1994 • Japanese Annexation (1910) • Liberation (1945) • Containment • Korean War (1950-1953) • Proxy War • 38th Parallel • “DMZ” Kim Jong Un r. 2011-2018 Kim Jong Il r. 1994-2011

  14. Cold War Conflict Cuba • Fulgencio Batista (1952-1959) • Fidel Castro (1976-2008) • Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) • Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) • Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964) • John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) 1,200 miles @ 5,500 mph (13 minutes) “Intermediate-range”— up to 3,418 miles “Medium-range”—up 1,800 miles Fidel Castro Nikita Khrushchev

  15. Ho Chi Minh Cold War Conflict Vietnam War (1964-1973) • Ho Chi Minh • First Indochina War 1946-1956 • Viet Cong (VC) • Gulf of Tonkin (1964) • Vietnamization (1973)

  16. Cold War: Easing and Escalating Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982) Détente (1972-1979) • SALT I (1972) • Helsinki(1975) • SALT II (1979) Afghanistan (1979)

  17. Cold War Conflict Afghanistan (1979) • Mujahedeen • Taliban • Osama bin Laden • Al Qaeda

  18. Cold War: Breakup and Collapse Mikhail Gorbachev What problems led to the Soviet collapse? Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991) • Glasnost • Perestroika • Democratization • “two candidate system” • “Union of Sovereign States” Treaty • to be signed Monday August 19th, 1991

  19. Cold War: Breakup and Collapse Collapse • Coup—Sunday, August 18th, 1991 • Boris Yeltsin • “Shock Therapy” • Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin Boris Yeltsin

  20. Cold War: Breakup and Collapse • Chechnya (1991-2014) • 1999 Moscow Apartment Bombings • 2002 Moscow Opera House • 2004 Beslan School Massacre • Ukraine (2014-???) • Crimea

  21. Cold War: Breakup and Collapse Poland (1980) • Solidarity Movement Germany • Berlin Wall (1989) • Reunification (1990) Independence • Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania Lech Walesa

  22. Cold War: Breakup and Collapse Yugoslavia • Marshall (Josip) Tito • Civil War (1991-1998) • Balkanization • Ethnic Cleansing

  23. Chinese Modernization Deng Xiaoping Tiananmen Square, 1989 • Deng Xiaoping • “economic liberalization” • Four Modernizations • “agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense” • Special Economic Zones (SEZ’s)—1978 • “Export Oriented Economies” • Tiananmen Square (1989) • “Fifth Modernization”—aka Democracy “Goddess of Democracy”

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