COLD WAR HIGHLIGHTS

Events that influence the course of the Cold War.

DO NOW: Complete the following task on your note sheet.

• What foreign policy is illustrated in the cartoon?

• Where is the major area of concern?

• Explain the chaos that the communism vulture is carrying.

1940’s Highlights

• 1947- The Marshall Plan: provided money to European nations to prevent them from falling into communism.

• 1948- Berlin Blockade: USSR cut off access to Berlin in an attempt to remove western influence and aid. The Berlin Airlift brought supplies into West Berlin.

• 1949-NATO formed to allied democratic nations. US foreign policy shift to internationalism

Nuclear War

1950’s Highlights

• 1950 – Korean War begins to push communist forces back behind 38th parallel. US will use military to enforce containment

• 1950 – Sen. Joe McCarthy began charging government officials as communist (McCarthyism)

• 1959 – France fails to remove communism from Vietnam.

• 1959 – Cuba falls to communism under Fidel Castro

McCarthyism

1960’s Highlights

• 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: US trained a group of Cubans in a failed attempt to overthrow Communism in Cuba

• 1961 – Construction of Berlin Wall

• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet missiles pointed at US in Cuba

1970’s Highlights

• 1972 – President Nixon visits China and opens relations

• 1972 – Realpolitik: power politics was adopted to have US decisions favor national interests rather than world opinion

• 1972 – Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT): agreement between US & USSR to limit arms supplies

• 1972 – Détente: warming up of the cold war during the 1970’s

• 1979 – USSR invades Afghanistan ending detente