Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Aim: What was the Cold war?

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Do Now:
1. Who were the political leaders during WWII?

2. What is a Cold War?


I Occupation of Germany
a. US and Britain and France would rebuild Germany
1. Democratic Government and Strong economy

2. Strong Germany will act as buffer against Soviet Union

3. Create Federal republic (West Germany 1949)

a. Free Elections, Democratic, and Capitalists

B. Russia dismantled factories in its zone and ships everything to Russia.

1. Punish weak Germany and keep it weak

2. Creates democratic Republic (East Germany) 1949 (-Communist cause gained when the Communists under Mao Zedong gained control of mainland China in 1949- US- support Nationalist China, with its headquarters on Taiwan. President Truman, fearing the appeal of Communism to the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America)

a. Communists state under Russian control


II Cold War- Political and Military rivalry between Communist USSR and Democratic USA

A. Propaganda

B. Scientific competition

1. Space race – 1st man of space Russia

1st man on the moon USA

2. Medical discoveries

3. Arms race – atomic weapons, stealth planes, star wars

c. Espionage (Spies KGB=USSR and CIA= USA)

d. Economic competition

1. Give money to underdeveloped countries.

2. Fund revolutionary movements

III Soviet Bloc Soviet Satellites

A. Weak economically, physically and politically

1. Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Czech, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria

2. Iron Curtain


Medial: Why would the Soviet Bloc isolate themselves from the rest of the world?


IV First conflict june1948-49 September

a. Berlin airlift

1. Soviet tries to force US out of Berlin

a. Cut off RR’s and Roads

2. US airlift food and supplies

3. Russia gives up

V Berlin Wall built 1961

a. Too many East Berliners escaping to West Berlin

b. wall torn down 1990


Final: Why could the Cold War turn in to the worst war the world would ever see?

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