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Lasted after WWII until the 1990’s
Period of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States
What was the Cold War?
Goals Collide
Self-determination Nations choose their
government Democracy
Elected governments preferred
Capitalism People own all financial
resources, and give government money through taxes
Security Didn’t want to be
invaded again Rebuild nation Communism
Community owned all financial resources
The United States The Soviet Union
Spheres of Influence develop
Impose ideals and values in the areas that their troops liberated
Soviet Union- Eastern Europe
United States- Germany, Italy, and France
The Iron Curtain
Satellite government’s emerge in Eastern Europe Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary Romania Bulgaria Yugoslavia Albania
Containment- Keep Communism where it is at Don’t let communism spread to new
places that aren’t satellites Weaken communism Show that capitalism is better
Strengthen American Policy of Capitalism We send aid (money)
to help nations in trouble
Truman Doctrine 400 million in aid to
Turkey and Greece Marshall Plan
Aid to Europe Created NATO
Alliance between U.S. and Western Europe
China “falls” to Communism
Nationalist and Communist forces battle in a civil war for control over China
Mao Tse-tung’s Communists win creating the People’s Republic of China
China and USSR sign a treaty of friendship and alliance in 1950
Korean War
While disarming Japanese troops in Korea after WWII, the USSR stayed in North Korea, while the US stayed in South Korea
Nuclear Race Begins
U.S. has nuclear technology
Displayed they would use it
Soviet Union began to develop and test their own nuclear technology
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962- American U-2 spy plan secretly photographs nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba
San Cristobal photo Decided to have a
naval blockade of Cuba Called it a quarantine 22nd- held a tv news
conference Soviet Union agrees
U.S. cannot invade Cuba