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The Cold War

Birk Mitau. The Cold War. People. Harry Truman - President of the United States, instituted The Truman Doctrine (see key terms) Fidel Castro – Anti- American leader of Cuba that provoked Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Cold War

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  1. Birk Mitau The Cold War

  2. People • Harry Truman - President of the United States, instituted The Truman Doctrine (see key terms) • Fidel Castro – Anti- American leader of Cuba that provoked Cuban Missile Crisis • Eisenhower – military general and president that warned people of the Military-Industrial Complex • President Kennedy – vowed America would be first on the moon after Sputnik

  3. People • Nikita Khrushchev – leader after Stalin, supported/started de-stalinization, stationed nuclear tipped missiles in Cuba, allowed East Germans to build a wall through Berlin • Leonid Brezhnev – head of the government and general secretary of the Communist Party, instituted “Brezhnev Doctrine” • Mao Zedong – Surprised U.S. with communist victory in China

  4. Terms • Marshal Plan – offered about $12 billion in financial assistance to European nations that wanted it. Aimed to speed Europe’s recovery and create new markets for American goods • Containment – policy that argued Russian would constantly exploit American and European weaknesses and that the West should maintain high levels of military preparedness and use all diplomatic means to limit Russian threats

  5. Terms • McCarthyism/The Red Scare – movement within the United States that sought to expose communists and denounce communist ideas • The Truman Doctrine – described the divisions between countries with democratic freedoms and those based on minority regimes relying upon terror and oppression (suppression of freedoms)

  6. Terms • American Military-Industrial Complex – United States basing significant industry around the build up of the American military. Eisenhower adamantly advises against such a complex • Proxy Wars – wars fought between allies of the US and USSR, the super powers stood in the background, let others fight (client states)

  7. Events • 1949 – United States creates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) • Warsaw pact is communist rival to NATO • 1945-1989 – duration of the Cold War • 1952 – United States believed that they had again gained nuclear supremacy as they detonated the world’s first hydrogen bomb • Russia surprised the U.S. by matching this accomplishment a year later

  8. Events • 1957 – Russia takes early lead in space contest by successfully deploying the first satellite (Sputnik ) • 1950-1953 – the Korean War. Soviets in the North, USA in the South • 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis, confrontation over nuclear tipped missiles deployed in Cuba. Cuba led by Anti-American Castro

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