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The Early Cold War: The Early Cold War:

Causes of Cold War Philosophical differences: –Soviet Union: Communism, Totalitarianism, dictatorship (the government takes care of the individual) –U.S.: Free-enterprise, capitalism, republic (the individual takes care if the individual)

The Ideological Struggle Soviet & Eastern Bloc Nations [“Iron Curtain”] US & the Western Democracies GOAL  spread world- wide Communism GOAL  “Containment” of Communism & the eventual collapse of the Communist world. [George Kennan]

Methods to spread the ISM METHODOLOGIES:  Espionage [KGB vs. CIA]  Arms Race [nuclear escalation]  Competition for the minds and hearts of Third World peoples  Bi-Polarization of Europe [NATO vs. Warsaw Pact]

Truman Doctrine [1947] 1.Containment 1.Containment (George Kennan) 2.Resist 2.Resist all Soviet attempts to expand their power & influence 3.The 3.The U. S. should support free peoples throughout the world who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities or outside pressures…We must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. 4.The 4.The U.S. gave Greece & Turkey $400 million in aid to stop communism from spreading there.

The Arms Race: A “Missile Gap?” }The Soviet Union exploded its first A-bomb in }Now there were two nuclear superpowers!

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)  United States  Belgium  Britain  Canada  Denmark  France  Iceland  Italy  Luxemburg  Netherlands  Norway  Portugal  1952: Greece & Turkey  1955: West Germany  1983: Spain

Warsaw Pact (1955) }U. S. S. R. }Albania }Bulgaria }Czechoslovakia }East Germany }Hungary }Poland }Rumania

The CIA and KGB  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) The US spy organization  KGB – The USSR spy organization

The “Iron Curtain” From Stettin in the Balkans, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lies the ancient capitals of Central and Eastern Europe. -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1946