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Lend-Lease Act (21) Marshall Plan (22) Berlin Airlift (23) Mao Tse-Tung (24) Gulf of Tonkin Incident and (25) Glasnost

This document provides an overview of the Cold War in five parts. It introduces key terms and events related to the early origins and escalation of tensions between the US and Soviet Union from World War II through the 1950s. These include the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, creation of NATO, Korean War, and Cuban Missile Crisis. It also covers the Vietnam War era and events of the 1970s-1980s, including détente and the rise of Gorbachev. Finally, it summarizes the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and questions who ultimately ended the Cold War.

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Lend-Lease Act (21) Marshall Plan (22) Berlin Airlift (23) Mao Tse-Tung (24) Gulf of Tonkin Incident and (25) Glasnost

This document provides an overview of the Cold War in five parts. It introduces key terms and events related to the early origins and escalation of tensions between the US and Soviet Union from World War II through the 1950s. These include the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, creation of NATO, Korean War, and Cuban Missile Crisis. It also covers the Vietnam War era and events of the 1970s-1980s, including détente and the rise of Gorbachev. Finally, it summarizes the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and questions who ultimately ended the Cold War.

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Lecture #19: The Cold War

KEY TERMS

(20) Lend-Lease Act (21) Marshall Plan (22) Berlin Airlift (23) Mao Tse-Tung
(24) Gulf of Tonkin Incident and (25) Glasnost

Part I: World War II


A. FDR’s Push for War
a. First Neutrality Act
b. Rape of Nanking
c. Neutrality Act of 1939
d. The Election of 1940
e. The Lend-Lease Act

B. FDR’s Troubled Legacy


a. Japanese Internment Camps
b. Knowledge of the Holocaust
c. Insufficient Polices Toward Minorities

Part II:
The Cold War Begins
A. World War II Conferences
a. Tehran
b. Yalta (February, 1945)
c. Potsdam (July, 1945)
B. The Atomic Bomb
a. Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
i. Kills 80,000
b. Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
i. Kills 70,000
C. Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
D. George Kennan
a. Long Telegram (Feb, 1946)
b. X Article
E. The Truman Doctrine (March, 1947)
F. The Marshall Plan (June, 1947)
a. Soviet Retaliate w/ Cominform (1947)
G. Soviet Aggression
a. Joseph Stalin
i. 1946 Speech to Voters: Capitalism and Communism
incompatible.
ii. Gulags
iii. Attacks on Russian Jews
b. Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakia
c. Berlin Blockade (June, 1948 – May, 1949)
i. Berlin Airlift
d. Berlin Wall (1961)
e. Russia tests its 1st atomic bomb (Aug., 1949)
H. The Creation of NATO (April, 1949)

Part II: The Chinese Dilemma


A. Chinese Nationalists
a. Chiang Kai-shek
B. Chinese Communists
a. Mao Tse-Tung
C. The American Respone
a. General Patrick J. Hurley
i. Let the Dust Settle
b. General George Marshall
D. The Fall of China
E. Mao vs. Stalin
a. True Believer vs. Political Opportunist

Part III: The 1950s


A. The First Red Scare
B. The Second Red Scare / McCarthyism
a. Senator Joseph McCarthy (R. Wisconsin)
b. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAAC)
C. Communism in Popular Culture
D. The Korean War (1950 – 1953)
a. Stalin Supports N. Korea
E. CIA Overthrow in Iran (1954)
F. Warsaw Pact (1955)
a. Soviet Tanks Enter Poland to Suppress Workers (June, 1956)
G. Nikita Khrushchev Delivers Speech to 20th Congress of C.P.S.U
a. Denounces Stalin
H. The Space Race
a. Sputnik launched into orbit (Oct., 1957)
b. Explorer I launched (Jan., 1958)
c. Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969)
I. Cuba
a. American Presence Since 1898
i. An American Playground
b. Fidel Castro
i. Assumes power in 1959
ii. Openly allies Cuba w/ Soviet Union (1960)
c. U.S. Terminates Diplomatic Relations (1961)
d. Bay of Pigs (April, 1961)
e. Cuban Missile Crisis
i. Senate Learns of Soviet Missiles (Aug, 1962)
ii. Soviet Foreign Minister warns US that an attack on Cuba is an
attack on the Soviet Union (Sept, 1962)
iii. US attempts a naval blockade. Technically an act of war.
iv. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev Negotiate
1. Khrushchev agrees to remove the missiles.
2. Kennedy agrees to remove US missiles from Turkey.

Part IV: The Vietnam Era


A. Vietnam
a. French Colonialism
i. Diem Bim Phu (1954)
b. Vietnamese Communism
i. Ho Chi Minh
ii. Vietcong
c. Increases in U.S. Military Involvement
d. Gulf of Tonkin Incident (August, 1964)
i. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
ii. US Announces Deployment of 150,000 troops to Vietnam
e. Nixon invades Cambodia (1970)
f. Carpet Bombing (1972)
g. Cease Fire in Vietnam (January, 1973)
i. North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam (April 1975)
B. The Soviets in Czechoslovakia (1968)

Part V: 1970s – 1990s Diplomacy


A. Détente
a. An easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
b. Pursued by Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon
c. Caused by the costs of the arms race.
B. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties I & II
a. SALT I (1972)
b. SALT II (1979)
C. Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979)
a. Shah of Iran Overthrown
D. Russia’s Vietnam: Afghanistan (1980)
a. Ends Détente
E. Solidarity in Poland (1980)
F. Ronald Reagan
a. Strategic Defense Initiative (1983)
b. Grenada (1983)
c. Iran-Contra Affair (1985)
i. Oliver North
G. Mikhail Gorbachev
a. Glasnost
b. Perestroika
H. The End of the Soviet Union
a. Berlin Wall (December, 1989)
b. Communist Government Fall
i. Hungary (November, 1989)
ii. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania (December, 1989)
iii. Lithuania (January, 1990)
c. Boris Yeltsin Elected President (May 1990)
d. Germany Reunited (October, 1990)
e. Soviet Union Disbanded (August, 1991)
I. Who ended the Cold War?
a. Reagan?
b. Time?
c. Communist Model?

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