1. Welcome!
Please take out a chromebook and open the documents about the Cold War that are posted in Mr. Percy’s exam prep website.
Please also have Mr. Cowhitt’s packet out for review.

2. Cold War Review Remember the four regions.
Divided into key themes covering the period 1945 –
Key questions:
Origins: How did it start? Why did it start?
Global Spread (1945-’64): How did if move beyond Europe? What were the impacts on other countries?
Reconciliation & Renewed Conflict: (1963-’79): To what extent was there a thaw? Why was there renewed conflict?
Conclusion: Why did it end when it did? How did it end?

3. Overview
Has been described as a chess game, a fight for the end of the world
Important to note that despite the overarching conflict, there were periods of peace
Main theories explaining the CW: Russian Menace (Orthodox), US Imperialism (Revisionist), Post- revisionist = both sides responsible (class conflict, ideology, power, arms race, developed & developing worlds)

4. Global Spread – early years (late 40s- early 50s)
Iron Curtain speech
Truman Doctrine – containment v. confrontation (NSC-68)
Marshall Plan
Stalinization
Chinese Revolution & Mao
NATO & Warsaw Pact
Division of Germany
Korean War (1st “hot war” & non-Euro action between superpowers)

5. Global – Middle Years (early 50s-early 60s)
Khrushchev’s Peaceful Co-Existence & secret speech (de-Stalinization)
Brinkmanship (Dulles)
Cuban Missile Crisis – case study!
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

6. Middle Years – mid 1960s- mid 1970s
Prague Spring
Brezhnev Doctrine
Vietnam
Triangulated relations – USSR, China, USA

7. Détente & Renewed Conflict
1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
SALT I (1972)
Helsinki Conference (‘73-75)
Ping Pong Diplomacy
1979 Soviets in Afghanistan
US involvement in Latin America (Chile, Nicaragua)
Reagan’s election
The New Right; Star Wars

8. Glasnost, Perestroika – Gorbachev Doctrine
Conclusion of the CW,
Glasnost, Perestroika – Gorbachev Doctrine
George HW Bush continuation of Reagan policies
Collapse of Eastern European communist governments (1989)
Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution
East Germany/Berlin Wall
Failed coup against Gorbachev; dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)

9. Essay Questions to Discuss
Assess the importance of two leaders from different regions in the development of the CW.
Evaluate the impact of the CW on two nations other than the U.S. and the USSR.
“The Cuban Missile Crisis’ potential to become nuclear has been exaggerated.” TWE do you agree with this statement?
Compare & contrast the roles of Reagan & Gorbachev in end of the Cold War.