The Cold War Begins HWH UNIT 12 CHAPTER 17.5, 18.1, and pp
The “ Iron Curtain ”
The United Nations
General Assembly Security Council USAUSSRFranceBritainChina*
US vs. USSR Soviet attitudes Western attitudes Communist Pressure France, Italy, Greece, Turkey The Truman Doctrine, 1947 Greece and Turkey Containment
Economic Recovery The Marshall Plan or ERP ( ) Mixed Economies The Welfare State Health Care UnemploymentPensions Subsidized housing Higher tax on wealthy
The Berlin Blockade/Airlift, 1948
Two Germanies, 1949 The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) or FRG The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) or GDR (DDR)
West Germany Konrad Adenauer ( ) Christian Democrats The German “ Economic Miracle ” or Wirtschaftswunder
NATO (1949)
Economic Recovery The “ mixed ” economies of the West The Coal and Steel Community (1951) Schuman Plan France, W. Germany, Italy, Benelux Nations The European Economic Community or “ Common Market ” (1957) The European Economic Community or “ Common Market ” (1957) Precursor to the European Union
Stalin and the USSR More Five Year Plans More industrialization Collectivization in Eastern Europe More Purges ArtistsJews Perhaps 12,000,000 Soviets died from “ As long as capitalism exists, war is inevitable. ”
Soviets get the A-Bomb (1949)
The Nuclear Arms Race USA develops the Hydrogen Bomb (1952) USSR develops the Hydrogen Bomb (1953) ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), 1959 Mutually Assured Destruction
Stalin’s Death (1953)
Khrushchev and “ De-Stalinization ” New party members Consumer goods Renewed freedom for writers Inadvertently encouraged uprisings in satellite states
The Warsaw Pact (1955)
“ Peaceful Coexistence ”
Hungary, 1956
Sputnik (1957)
The Berlin Wall, 1961
The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1961-2)
Détente? Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963
Brezhnev and “ Re-Stalinization ” (1964)
Prague, 1968 ( “ Prague Spring ” )