The Cold War –What is it Cold War Skirmishes –Ways they tried to compete –Bunch of small wars Africa –Decolonization Latin America Pakistan vs India Japan –Rebuilding and going high tech China –Different version of Communism The Middle East –OPEC and the Creation of Israel

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The Cold War The United Nations –Mostly Ignored NATO –International Monetary Fund –World Bank –Marshal Plan –Europe increased social programs –Truman Doctrine Soviet Union and Satellites –Warsaw Pact

Cold War Skirmishes Berlin Blockade –Berlin Airlift –Berlin Wall Korean War –38th Parallel Vietnam –Fell to Communists Arms Race ICBM’s Thermonuclear Warheads Cuban Missile Crisis Space Race

Africa Arbitrarily drawn borders Overdependence on export crops Lack of national road and railroad networks (infrastructure) Overpopulation Nationalist movements Racism- Southern areas Algeria

Latin America Economic Freedom Mexico –Economic stratification and Revolution Guatemala –US sponsored Coup Cuba –Batista Regime –1959 Fidel Castro –US blockade- turned to USSR –Bay of Pigs

Pakistan –Military dictatorship India –Struggled with poverty and Democracy Japan –Stayed out of cold war –Focused on economic growth China –Received help from USSR until 1956 –Mao –Great Leap Forward –Cultural Revolution

The Middle East –Arab countries gained Independence –United Nation portioned Palestine 1948 Israel 6 Day War –Gained Land Palestine Liberation Organization –Yasir Arafat –Guerilla Warfare-Terrorism –Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)