The Cold War
1945-1970s
Objective
To understand postwar international
order
To understand the causes of the Cold
War
To understand the nature of the Cold
War
Causes of the Cold War
The end of World War II
Soviet troops occupied Eastern Europe
Division of Germany
Yalta Conference
Change in balance of power
Causes of the Cold War
Soviet motivations
US involvement
Who is right?
The Cold War
The Truman Doctrine (1947)
European Recovery Program
(Marshall Plan, 1947)
The Cold War
Status of Germany
Permanent Division
Berlin Airlift (1948)
Berlin Wall (1961)
The Berlin Airlift
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Soviet domination of Eastern Europe
Soviets explode first atom bomb, 1949
Rise of puppet states
Yugoslavia
First Soviet Atom Bomb
1949
The Cold War
Changes in Soviet leadership
Stalin dies 1953
Nikita Khrushchev 1956-1964
Leonid Brezhnev 1964-1982
Gorbachev 1985-1991
Nikita Khruschev
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Cold War
Threat of nuclear warfare
Atomic bombs end World War II
Change in warfare
Soviet Union explodes first atom bomb in
1949
Nuclear arms race
US Defense Spending
1941-61
The Cold War
The Cold War expands beyond Europe
China (1949)
Korean War (1950-53)
Cuba
Vietnam War
Mao Zedong
Korean War
Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam War
The Cold War
Decolonization
Decline of European powers
The “Third World”
Decolonization and the Cold War
The Cold War
Middle East
State of Israel created in 1948
Middle East and the Cold War
Role of Oil
The Cold War
European Integration (1951-Present)
Lessons from World War II
European Coal and Steel Community
Treaty of Rome
Franco-German
Cooperation
The Cold War
Changes in Western society
Material prosperity
Secular Society
Globalization
The Cold War
Challenge to Soviet domination
Hungary (1956)
Czechoslovakia (1968)
Brezhnev Doctrine
Prague Spring
1968
Détente
Decreased tensions between US and
Soviet Union
Nuclear arms agreements
US and China
Détente