COLD WAR HIGHLIGHTS

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COLD WAR HIGHLIGHTS

• Events that influence the course of the Cold War.

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DO NOW Complete the following task on your note
sheet.

• What foreign policy is illustrated in the
  cartoon?
• Where is the major area of concern?
• Explain the chaos that the communism vulture is
  carrying.

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1940s Highlights

• 1947- The Marshall Plan provided money to
  European nations to prevent them from falling
  into communism.
• 1948- Berlin Blockade USSR cut off access to
  Berlin in an attempt to remove western influence
  and aid. The Berlin Airlift brought supplies
  into West Berlin.
• 1949-NATO formed to allied democratic nations.
  US foreign policy shift to internationalism

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Nuclear War
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1950s Highlights

• 1950 Korean War begins to push communist forces
  back behind 38th parallel. US will use military
  to enforce containment
• 1950 Sen. Joe McCarthy began charging
  government officials as communist (McCarthyism)
• 1959 France fails to remove communism from
  Vietnam.
• 1959 Cuba falls to communism under Fidel Castro
  

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McCarthyism
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1960s Highlights

• 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion US trained a group
  of Cubans in a failed attempt to overthrow
  Communism in Cuba
• 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall
• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet missiles
  pointed at US in Cuba

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1970s Highlights

• 1972 President Nixon visits China and opens
  relations
• 1972 Realpolitik power politics was adopted
  to have US decisions favor national interests
  rather than world opinion
• 1972 Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT)
  agreement between US USSR to limit arms
  supplies
• 1972 Détente warming up of the cold war
  during the 1970s
• 1979 USSR invades Afghanistan ending detente