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The Cold War 1947 - 1989. Winston S. Churchill: "Iron Curtain Speech", March 5, 1946. Fall of the Berlin Wall – NOV 9, 1989. America’s Wars. 1750 French Revolution 1812 3 Seminole Mexican 1850 & Indian Wars
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The Cold War 1947 - 1989 Winston S. Churchill:"Iron Curtain Speech", March 5, 1946 Fall of the Berlin Wall – NOV 9, 1989
America’s Wars 1750 French Revolution 1812 3 Seminole Mexican 1850 & Indian Wars 1850 Civil Indian Boxer Spanish Philippine WWI Banana WWII Greek 1950 War Wars Rebellion American Insurrection Wars Civil 1950Korea Cold Vietnam Nicaragua Desert Iraqi Afghanistan Present War Storm Freedom
Factors Influencing Conduct of War Political Sociological Technological
Spectrum of War Cost Risk Crime Terrorism Guerrilla Lo-Intensity Conventional Limited Nuc. Nuclear
PRUSSIA BERLIN POLAND EAST WEST POSTWAR PARTITION OF GERMANY
Mr. “X”orthe “X Article” The Sources of Soviet Conduct By “X” George Kennan, Undersecretary of State Foreign Policy magazine, May 1947 Containment
NATO Japan Greece Korea SEATO Vietnam
Cold War Events 1950-1955 Greek Civil War – MAR 1946 – OCT 1949 Truman Doctrine – MAR 1947; Marshall Plan 1948-1952 Berlin Airlift – JUN 1948 – MAY 1949 Communist conquest of China – 1934 - 1949 Russian Atomic Bomb – AUG 1949 Korean War – JUL 1950 - 1954 US Fusion Bomb – NOV 1952 Russian Fusion Bomb – AUG 1953 1st Indochinese War – 1946-1954 NATO – 1949, Warsaw Pact - 1955 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg – JUN 1953 McCarthy hearings – MAR - JUN 1954
Greek Civil War 1946-1949 The Truman Doctrine
British Mideast Occupation
Partition of India 1947
Cold War Events 1950-1955 Greek Civil War – MAR 1946 – OCT 1949 Truman Doctrine – MAR 1947; Marshall Plan 1948-1952 Berlin Airlift – JUN 1948 – MAY 1949 Communist conquest of China – 1934 - 1949 Russian Atomic Bomb – AUG 1949 Korean War – JUL 1950 - 1954 US Fusion Bomb – NOV 1952 Russian Fusion Bomb – AUG 1953 1st Indochinese War – 1946-1954 NATO – 1949, Warsaw Pact - 1955 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg – JUN 1953 McCarthy hearings – MAR - JUN 1954
Mutual Assured Destruction(MAD) • Triad – Manned Bombers, Land based Ballistic Missiles, Fleet Ballistic Missiles • MIRV – Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicle • SDI – Strategic Defense Initiative – “Star Wars” • Nuclear proliferation • START – Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
The Nuclear Triad MAD Mutual Assured Destruction
Cold War Events – 1955-1991 • Hungarian Revolution – 1956 • Suez Canal Crisis – OCT 1956 • Wars of National Liberation • Space Race • Cuban Revolution – 1958 • Berlin Crisis & Berlin Wall 1961 • Cuban Missile Crisis – 1962 • 2d Indochinese War (Vietnam) – 1957-1975 • Arab/Israeli 6 Day War - 1967 • Czechoslovakian Invasion -1968 • Sino America rapprochement - 1972 • SALT 1 – 1972, SALT 2 – 1979 • Arab Israeli 1973 War • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - 1980
1973 Cease-Fire Lines