The Cold War

A Global Economy
US economic dominance
Other economic centers
Disparity between rich and poor
Food and famine
Economic Dependence

International Relations
De-colonization
Regional organizations
The United Nations
War and military spending

Post War settlement
Soviet expansion
Germany divided
Occupation of Berlin
Eastern Europe and Germany
US and Soviet disagreement
Stalin vs. Truman
USSR tightens grip

Truman Doctrine
Containment
Military aid
Marshall Plan
Communism defeated in France and Italy

Truman Doctrine
Satellite states in eastern Europe
Creation of West Germany
Tensions in Berlin
US fear of communism

Global nuclear confrontation
Formation of NATO
The threat of H-bombs
Warsaw Pact created
Hungarian Rebellion
Brink of nuclear war

The Cold War in Asia 
Korean partition
The Korean War
S. Korean progress
N. Korean communism

The First Indochina War(1946-1954)
Background
Vietnamese nationalism: Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
Japanese Occupation (1941-1945)
France forced to withdraw
Four nations formed

The Second Indochina War
Partition of Vietnam
The Vietnam War
	-Ngo Dinh Diem (1955-1963)
	-Gulf of Tonkin
	-Tet offensive Jan 30, 1968

The Second Indochina War
Vietnamization
Nixon Doctrine
Fall of Saigon 1975
Communist quarrels after the war


Deterioration of international relations
Confrontation over Berlin
Castro comes to power in Cuba
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis

Western Europe
The Common Market (EC)
De Gaulle in France (1958-69)
Domestic unrest in France, 1968
	-reforms granted, but destroys France�s image
	-De Gaulle resigns 1969

The Soviet Union
The Brezhnev era (1964-1982)
	-military spending high
	-tight gov�t control of economy
	-Dissident Opposition:
		*Solzhenitsyn leaves 1974
		*censorship of arts, media and education
		*corruption causes people to lose faith

Eastern Europe
Impact of Sino-Soviet split
	-Albania protected by China
	-Romania votes differently in UN
Czechoslovakia, 1968
	-Dubcek lessens political restrictions
	-Soviets invade, Dubcek resigns
Chairman Mao & President Nixon

Detente (1960s, 1970s)
Nuclear weapons
SALT treaties
US and China
Helsinki, 1975

The Polish Crisis (1981-1982)
Polish Labor Union=SOLIDARITY
	-Lech Walesa leads strikes in Gdansk shipyard
	-gains some worker freedoms
	-Soviets declare martial law

End of Detente 
Carter and the USSR
	-1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
	-US boycotts Moscow Olympics (1980)
	-1979 Salt II not ratified by US
Reagan and the USSR
	-SDI (Star Wars) angers Andropov
	-US places limited sanctions on USSR (Poland)

Gorbachev's changes
Glasnost(social) and perestroika (economic)
	-less censorship
	-religious freedoms
	-less gov�t control of economy 
Demokratizatsha (political)
	-secret ballot, multiple candidates
Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan

Gorbachev's Three Crises
Three Crises
	1. Nationalities-republics move toward independence
	2. Political-faced opposition from both sides
	-Boris Yeltzin
	3. Economic-declining food supply, increased unemployment and inflation

The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Polish Solidarity
Albania and Yugoslavia 
Reunification of Germany
 
Boris Yeltsin
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
A failed coup, 1991
The Collapse and why
	1. economic and social decline
	2. anger with Soviet system
	3. ideological erosion
	4. foreign influence
	5. better educated population
Russia after the Cold War