Did the Cold War create stability or uncertainty?
Containment/Domino Theory Truman Doctrine: it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan – Video Marshall Plan Details
Brinksmanship Iron Curtain Speech NATO v Warsaw Pact Consolidation of US, English and French occupation zones in Western Germany Berlin Blockade – June 1948 – May 1949 Airlift Berlin Wall – 1961 2,000 East Germans were crossing into West Berlin per day Barbed wire fence went up overnight (August 12-13)
Hot Spots Korea Vietnam Middle East (Eisenhower Doctrine) Bay of Pigs - Cuba
Brinksmanship to Detente Berlin Blockade Cuban Missile Crisis Summits – Nuclear non-proliferation treaties (1963, 1968) SALTs Nixon and China
Detente Reagan and Gorbachev Fall of Berlin Wall (1989) Glasnost Perestroika Fall of Berlin Wall (1989) Collapse of Soviet Union (1991) Gorbachev Resigns New World Order – First Iraq War
New Evil Empire Islamic Fundamentalism Iranian Revolution 1979 American Hostage Crisis American Hostages in Iran Al Qaeda