The Cold War

Question 1

Karl Marx

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• Founder and Wrote a book on communism, 19th century

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Vladimir lenin

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• First communist leader in Russia, 20th century

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Joseph Stalin

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• Dictator of Russia(lenin’s successor), wwii - Beginning of cold war

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Totalitarianism

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• Political philosophy to take total control over a society

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Communism

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• Communism was an economic philosophy (total government control, which is the opposite of capitalism
• Communism eventually turned into a political philosophy too

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Iron Curtain

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• Was a political boundary that demonstrated the division of communist europe from free europe (metaphor created by Winston Churchill)

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Truman Doctrine

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• also known as containment & succeeded in Korea and it failed in Vietnam

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The Marshall Plan

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• It was billions of dollars in aid given to 16 nations after WWii

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Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek

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• Mao was the leader of the communist party of china and Chiang was the leader of the nationalists and lost to the communist party

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Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism

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• McCarthy was a senator who recklessly accused people of being spies and it is the political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence

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Edward R. Murrow

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was a famous reporter who humiliated MacCarthur and his beliefs

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“Ike”

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• Dwight Eisenhower who was the 34th president of the USA and served from 1953 to 1961 (end of the Korean War)

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“Military-industrial Complex”

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• The connection between the individuals in the government and the military, Eisenhower warned against it

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Nikita Khrushcev

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• USSR leader who supplied the missiles and set them to Cuba (1953 - 1964)

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Arms Race

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• A Competition between USSR and US in development in weapons

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Fidel Castro

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• Prime Minister of Cuba that was tried to remove from office during the Bay of Pigs (1959 - 1976)

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Bay of Pigs invasion

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• In 1961, was a failed attack launched during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power (made kennedy look bad)

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“New Frontier” (Who made these policies?)

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• John F. Kennedy made these policies

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LBJ

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• The president at the beginning of active US involvement in the Vietnam war (Nixon was soon after) (1963 - 1969)

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“Great Society” (who’s program)

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• LBJ’s Program

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1st cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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Berlin Airlift (1948 - 1949)
First major victory without firing a shot; avoided direct military conflict

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2nd Cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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USSR Detonates Atomic Bomb (1949)
Evened USSR and USA; it threatened the USA and showed how advanced the USSR had gotten making weapons

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3rd cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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Korean War (1950 - 1953)
Truman and USA able to contain communism

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4th cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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Sputnik (1957)
USSR in the lead of the Space Race and it was the first manmade satellite to orbit the earth

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5th cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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Building of the berlin Wall (1961) Symbol of repressive communism and created prison conditions for people living in the city

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6th cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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Cuban Missile crisis (1962) when 2 major superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict

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7th cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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Vietnam War - active US involvement (1965 - 1973) First war USA lost and was a failure in the policy of containment.

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8th cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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First Moon Landing (1969) The USA won the space race and it also was a huge technological advancement

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9th cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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Nixon Visits China (1972) Reduced tensions; was the first time the us acknowledged that communist China won the civil war

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10th cold war event: what it was and why it was important

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Fall of the berlin wall (1989) Crowds of people gathered around this wall when it fell and it was important because the wall represented the fall of communism

Question 31

Countries on the communist side of the “Iron curtain”

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USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria