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Cold War Presentation

Michaela Leinen. Cold War Presentation. Who won the Cold War?. W h y d i d t h e U S w i n ?. Hmm. The US and Soviet Union always fought indirectly Played havoc with conflicts in different parts of the world Words rather than weapons Threatened and denounced each other

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Cold War Presentation

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  1. Michaela Leinen Cold War Presentation

  2. Who won the Cold War?

  3. WhydidtheUSwin?

  4. Hmm.. • The US and Soviet Union always fought indirectly • Played havoc with conflicts in different parts of the world • Words rather than weapons • Threatened and denounced each other • Tried to make the other look foolish

  5. DECISIONS! • Harry Truman's decision to concentrate on European theater rather than Pacific • Two-front war is a strong fundamental strategic choice (Germany) • George Catlett Marshall (special representative to president): proposed a strategy to that concentrated on Europe rather than China • $400 million aid in Greece and Turkey, successful

  6. DECISIONS! • Marshall Plan's economic and financial assistance to Western Europe • Strengthened economies and governments of the countries • Declination of communism became popular • US aid in blockade with help of France and Britain

  7. NATO • “To keep Russia out, American in and Germany down” • Defend against Soviet forces in Europe • SUCCESS; still around today

  8. Warsaw Pact • Six years later • “The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance” • Made in response to NATO and the re-militarization of West Germany • Hungary tried to get out of it, Soviet crushed the uprising • FAIL; ended in 1991

  9. SEATO • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization • Ceased the spread of communism in eight countries • Did not agree to help each other militarily • Dissolved after Vietnam, 1977

  10. Cuba • JFK’s early presidency, Cuban exiles trained by America’s CIA, invaded Cuba wanting to oust communism • US failed to send military planes to protect them during invasion, mission failed

  11. Cuban Missile Crisis • JFK’s second year in office, the discovery of missiles in Cuba • Khruschev agreed to remove the missiles if the US agreed to not interfere in Cuba

  12. JFK and nuclear arms • 1963, two sides reached a major arms control agreement • Banned tests of nuclear weapons above ground, under water, and in space • Direct phone line established between white house and kremlin

  13. Nixon and Brezhnev • East and west relations improved • Met several arms control agreements • One reducing numbers of missiles used to shoot down enemy nuclear weapons • Banned testing and deployment of long-distance missiles for five years

  14. Reagan and Gorbachev • Had four meetings together • Gorbachev withdrew Soviet forces out of Afghanistan • Signed agreement to destroy all INF missiles and SRINF missiles

  15. Cutting ties • By 1989, Eastern Europe was cutting ties with USSR • Gorbachev didn’t intervene • Within one year, East and West Germany was no more • Few months after, Warsaw Pact dissolved

  16. Berlin Wall Probably the most central conflict of Cold War Resolved many problems between the Soviets and US

  17. What ended the Cold War? • (according to bruns)

  18. Fall of Communism

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