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Part 3. Berlin 1960. The Berlin Wall Goes Up (1961). 1961 standoff. Checkpoint Charlie. http://www.guardian.co.uk/berlin-wall-20-years-on. EAST GERMAN RESISTANCE. Borders: Physical Boundaries between Ideologies .
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The Berlin Wall Goes Up (1961) 1961 standoff CheckpointCharlie
Borders: Physical Boundaries between Ideologies • Borders served to divide people by ideological differences as well as political and economic differences.(Liberal Democracies vs Communism) • Increased tension between the superpowers. • Countries under the Soviet Sphere were under pressure to maintain strong political and economic ties with the Soviet Union • Soviets were not receptive to any encroachment of capitalism or Democracy. • http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/cold_war/clips/15236/
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Breaking free of the Iron Curtain p.247 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q19c4zF_xbY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVdQ9PK9Q5o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9AktlPpPL0
Figure 7-11 • Compare these maps • What evidence do you see of expansionism and alignment?
The Arms Race 1950’s to 1989 Deterrence (clip on timeline)
The Arms Race: Why? • Territorial integrity and national sovereignty • Ideological struggle • Capitalism vs. communism • Liberal democracy vs. authoritarian rule • Military prowess: nukes as visible symbol of power
vocabulary • Mutual Assured Destruction ( MAD ): the belief that nuclear attacks launched by both nations will result in both nations being destroyed. • Mutual Deterrence: the belief that the destructive capability and the likelihood of mutual destruction will stop both superpowers from launching a nuclear attack.
Canada and the Cold war • READ P.253 Identify 5 events or organizations that Canada joined or participated in the early part of the cold war. • 1949 Canada joined NATO ( Collective security) an attack on one is an attack on all. • Military troops through the United Nations in the Korean War 1950-53 • Suez Crisis in 1956 UNEF • NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defence Command) • The building of the DEW Line
France’s Dissuasion Policy Why do you think France thought it was necessary to develop nuclear weapons as part of its foreign policy? P.253-54 • France would use its own weapons for deterrence • Resisted the leadership of the USA ( one liberal democracy rejecting the other) • Wanted to follow it own independent path.
Kennedy and Cuba • JFK becomes President (1961) • “…we shall pay any price, bear any burden…to assure the survival and success of liberty.” (Inaugural Address) • Cuban Revolution (1959) • Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 1961) • Berlin Wall (August 1961) • Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)
Cuban Missile Crisis: Results and Concepts • BRINKMANSHIP: to get to the verge of war without going to war • Two years later Khrushchev is removed from office • Benefits: a “hot line” or direct link was established between the White House and the Kremlin • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: no testing in the atmosphere • Détente: the easing of relations between superpowers
"As a result of the Cuban missile crisis the long, talked-about "hot line" between Washington and Moscow was to become a reality. On 20th June, 1963, at Geneva, Switzerland , the United States and the Soviet Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding that set up a duplex cable circuit routed from Washington-London-Copenhagen-Stockholm-Helsinki to Moscow for primary political conversations.