The Cold War A Bi-Polar and Dangerous World

Origins Historical Antagonisms Ideological Differences Fractures in the Great Alliance Problem of Perception—events “confirmed” the worst

End of World War II Yalta Conference Death of FDR Potsdam Conference Division of Germany Elections Need for security—understandable paranoia

Division of Germany

Evolving Strategies Collective Security—Eastern Europe— Warsaw Pact Western Europe—NATO George Kennan—Containment Truman Doctrine Berlin Airlift Arms Race: “Super” and Missiles

Divided Europe along an Iron Curtain

Cold War Become Global Mao and China Korean War Vietnam 3 rd World Cuban Revolution

Cold War Images

“Temporarily divided at the 17 th parallel, Vietnam became a quagmire—the Iraq of U. S. policy in the 1960s

KOREAN WAR

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926- ) Cuban Revolution spurred fear of Communism in Western Hemisphere

Key Episodes ( ) Berlin Blockade Hungarian Uprising U-2 Spy Plane Espionage—Joe McCarthy Cuban Missile Crisis “Détente” Re-escalation in late 1970 El Salvador and Nicaraugua

Sputnik—1957 Apollo 11—1969 Taking the Cold War to space

Ideology and mortality Star Wars Nationalities and economic problems in Soviet Union Glasnost Perestroika Arms Reduction Treaties Collapse of Berlin Wall

Collapse of Berlin Wall, Boris Yeltsin during 1991 Coup