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Iron Curtain Drops
•End of Worl War II
•Communism brought to all nations west of Russia until Germany
•Violated Yalta agreement -
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THE COLD WAR
Causes:
(America • Soviet Union)
Capitalist • Communism
Reconstruct Germany • Reparate Germany
Democracy • Dictator -
Truman Doctorine and Marshall Plan
•Truman supported countries that were against communism
•Caused a lot of controversy •Marshall (Secretary of State) approved a plan
•Provided assistance to Western nations that was in ruins after the war
•Food, machinery, and other help -
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Berlin Blockade and Aircraft
•Allied planes took off, landed every three minutes in West Berlin
•Known as the Berlin Airlift
•Soviet blocked out all the outside countries from sending stuff into their own country. (blockade)
•May 1949 - the Soviet Union admitted defeat and lifted the blockade. -
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
•Beginning in 1949, the superpowers used spying, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations in their dealings with each other. •A cold war is a struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war. •until the Soviet Union finally broke up in 1991, the Cold War dictated not only U.S. and Soviet foreign policy, but influenced world alliances as well •in 1949, ten western European natio -
Korean War
•After World War II ended, Korea became a divided nation
•North Korea attacked the south
•South Korea asked the united nations to intervene but they could not stop the invasion
•The North surrendered to the UN troops and the rest retreated
•The UN forces and North Korea signed a ceasefire agreement -
Mao and the Red Power
• Mao Zedong was the leader of Northern China
• With China’s economy failing many soldiers ran to Communists
• In 1949, China’s major cities fell to the red forces, leading to Mao's control of the whole country -
Cuban Missile Crisis
•Castro = harsh dictator
•Bay of Pigs invasion - FAIL
•Soviet’s plant missiles in Cuba
•US find them, and urge Soviet Union to get rid of them
•Soviet agreed - US not to invade Cuba
•Result: Cuba completely dependent on Soviet Union -
Fall of Soviet Union
•Protesters at Parliament building - want Coup - NOPE
•Attempted coup inspired other nations
•All 15 nations declared independence
•Soviet Union officially broken up on Christmas Day -
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Beginning in 1949, the superpowers used spying, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations in their dealings with each other. A cold war is a struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war. until the Soviet Union finally broke up in 1991, the Cold War dictated not only U.S. and Soviet foreign policy, but influenced world alliances as well in 1949, ten western Eu
