The Cold War 1945-1990. CAPITALISM an economic and political system in which businesses belong mostly to private owners, not to the government.

The Cold War1945-1990

CAPITALISM

an economic and political system in which businesses belong mostly to private owners, not to the government

COMMUNISM

a political system in which the government controls the production of all food and goods, and there is no privately owned property

What’s the Appeal?Communism

• Greater financial equality

• End of poverty

• Healthcare for all

• Full Employment

• Often government by dictators

Capitalism• Greater incentive to work

harder-earn more money

• Better healthcare for those who can afford it

• Government often democratic, but can be dictatorship

What challenges faced the world at the end of World War II?

•Destruction•Power Vacuum

•Loss of old power balance

•Collapse of colonialism

The Iron Curtain

Who were the superpowers?

•United States

•Soviet Union

Situation at end of WWII

US• Largest economy in the

world• Possesses only atomic

weapon in world• Virtually no destruction of

country in WWII• Relatively small loss of life

in WWII

USSR• Largest standing army in the

world• Country suffers great

destruction during WWII• Largest losses of any

country in WWII- over 20 million

Why were they superpowers?

•Location•Armies•Economies•Atomic Bomb

What were their goals?

What were their goals?

•USSR• Expansion of

Communism • Expansion of

influence • National Security

•United States•Containment

of communism•Expansion of US

influence •National Security

What was the greatest fear during the Cold War?

• Atomic bombs soon became hydrogen super bombs

• Delivery systems were just as important as warheads

• Led to a nuclear arms race

What was the greatest fear during the Cold War?

What was the greatest fear during the Cold War?

How did the early Cold War unfold in Europe?

•Marshall Plan

How did the early Cold War unfold in Europe?

• Greece and Turkey

• Truman Doctrine

How did the early Cold War unfold in Europe?

•The Berlin Airlift

The Berlin Airlift

How did the early Cold War unfold in Europe?

• 1956 Hungarian Uprising

1956 Hungarian Uprising

How did the early Cold War unfold in Asia?

•Reconstruction of Japan

How did the early Cold War unfold in Asia?

•Communist Revolution in China

How did the early Cold War unfold in Asia?

• The Korean War

How did the early Cold War unfold in the United States?

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

How did the early Cold War unfold in the United States?

• McCarthyism

How did the early Cold War unfold in the United States?

•Sputnik

How was the Cold War fought?

•Indirect

•Brinkmanship

•Symbolic

How did the Cold War progress diplomatically?

• Tension in Berlin

• Kennedy’s Visit

• The Berlin Wall

How did the Cold War progress diplomatically?

• Revolution in Cuba

• The Bay of Pigs

• The Missile Crisis

How did the Cold War progress diplomatically?

• Vietnam• French Indochina• The Geneva Conference• Slow Escalation• The Gulf of Tonkin• The Tet Offensive• Nixon’s Diplomacy

How did the Cold War progress diplomatically?

1968• Prague Spring

How did the Cold War progress diplomatically?

•Détente

How did the Cold War progress diplomatically?

•Nixon and China

How did the Cold War progress diplomatically?

•Soviet Union

How did the Cold War progress diplomatically?• Strategic Arms

Limitation Treaties

• SALT I

• SALT II

Where was the Cold War fought indirectly?

•Afghanistan

Where was the Cold War fought indirectly?

•Central America

Where was the Cold War fought symbolically?

•1972 Summer Olympics

Where was the Cold War fought symbolically?

•1980 Winter Olympics

Where was the Cold War fought symbolically?

•1980 Summer Olympics

•1984 Summer Olympics

How did the Cold War progress under Ronald Reagan?

• Military Buildup

• Star Wars (SDI)

How did the Cold War progress under Ronald Reagan?

• Iran Contra Affair

How did the Cold War progress under Ronald Reagan?

•Glasnost and perestroika

How did the Cold War end?

•Berlin

How did the Cold War end?

•Eastern Europe

•Poland•Hungary•Bulgaria

Czechoslovakia: Velvet Revolution

Romania

How did the Cold War end?

•Russia

Before and After

Slide 1: History channel, Cold War leftovers 2 minutesSlide 5: clip Europe at end of war, end of US isolationism (Best of Years section 1 14:00 min-sec 2 5:20 Min)Slide 6 Iron Curtain (The Best of Years, section1 0:48-2:52)Slide 14: clip about Berlin Airlift (section 2 8:55-11:45)Slide 17: clip Increasing fear of USSR, 1956 in Hungary (Section 3, 3:00-4:40)Slide 20: Korea (Section 2 13:42-section 3 1:55)Slide 24: Nuclear weapons and testing, US testing in Arizona (Happy Days Section 3, 4:40-6:49) NASA, Sputnik (6:50-10:20)Kruschev-Nixon “Kitchen Debate”, self-appraisal in US, “Are we falling behind Russians?” comparing Russian and Us students (10:23-11:50)Slide 26: Cuban Missile Crisis (Poisoned Dreams Section 1 14:20-Section 2 3:20)Slide 28: Prague Spring, 30 secondsSlide 31: Nixon Diplomacy (Approaching the Apocalypse Section 2, 11:20-13:20)Slide 73:Basketball clip 5-6 minutesSlide 40: Star Wars Clip-30 secondsSlide 42: Gorbachev/Reagan (A New World Section 3, 3:49-Slide 43: Magicka Noci-Plastic People clip/revolutions of 1989 -3:25 minutes