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World War III (1945-1991)

World War III (1945-1991). Usually called the Cold War, but this falsely suggests there were no military battles: In fact, many millions will die in armed confrontations in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and dozens of other “hot wars” around the globe

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World War III (1945-1991)

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  1. World War III (1945-1991) • Usually called the Cold War, but this falsely suggests there were no military battles: • In fact, many millions will die in armed confrontations in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and dozens of other “hot wars” around the globe • American, Soviet, Chinese and other soldiers will often directly participate • In other cases, will provide the rationale and the funds for wars • BUT: A “cold war” in the sense that the U.S. and USSR never directly went to war • Sadly for many Third World Nations, their lands became the devastated battlefields of the two “super” powers • But thankfully did (narrowly) avoid a Nuclear Third World War

  2. The Big Questions: • Could the Cold War have been avoided? • Which side bears the greatest responsibility for the war? • Was the price paid—in lives and money—worth the results? • How did the international conflict influence domestic American politics and culture, and vice-versa? • Were McCarthyism and the Red Scare mainly a result of cynical political manipulations? • Did the post-war permanent war-time economy need some sort of enemy, whether real or invented?

  3. The Roots of World War III

  4. A Soviet poster memorializing (and romanticizing) the first anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution

  5. Vladimir Lenin speaking to the masses in 1918, recruiting soldiers for the Red Army to fight in the Russian Civil War

  6. Lenin believes revolution must spread to industrialized nations if the USSR is to survive; Creates COMINTERN to spur global revolution

  7. Poster suggesting the early Soviet dream of a global communist revolution

  8. J. Edgar Hoover: • Atty. General Palmer appoints him to head “Palmer Raids” • Later becomes director of the new Federal Bureau of Investigation • Will serve in to the 1970s

  9. 1920 Cartoon satirizing Atty. Gen. Palmer’s fear of communists

  10. Debs was again the Socialist Party candidate for president in 1920 • Campaigned from prison • Received almost a million votes

  11. The ruthless dictator and mass murderer, Joseph Stalin, iron-fisted ruler of the USSR from 1924-1953 • A man Karl Marx would likely have despised • More interested in preserving and consolidating his own power than in spreading communist revolutions?

  12. Poster celebrating rapid Soviet industrialization

  13. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, 1945

  14. The Soviet Red Army takes Berlin, April 1945

  15. The ruthless dictator and mass murderer, Joseph Stalin, iron-fisted ruler of the USSR from 1924-1953 • A man Karl Marx would likely have despised • More interested in preserving and consolidating his own power than in spreading communist revolutions?

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