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1 Weapons of the Cold War

2 Foreign/ Economic Aid Examples: Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine
Molotov Plan Pinochet’s Coup in Chile Civil War in Angola

3 Arms Race/Brinkmanship
Examples: Cuban Missile Crisis Reagan’s Defense Build-up (STAR WARS) Carter’s Human Rights Initiative

4 Propaganda Examples: Radio Free Europe McCarthyism Sports – Olympics
Education pamphlets

5 Espionage Examples: CIA KGB
Soviet downing of U.S. U-2 spy plane in Cuba The Rosenbergs. Julius and Ethel were American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

6 Proxy Wars Examples: Vietnam War Korean War
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Civil War in Angola Revolution in Nicaragua

7 Multinational Alliances
Examples: NATO Warsaw Pact Nixon’s Détente (Ping Pong Diplomacy)

8 Political Wrestling Match
USA President Kennedy USSR Premier Khrushchev Political Wrestling Match Daily Mail, 29 October 1962: News: 28 Oct: Khrushchev promised that the Soviet bases on Cuba, that sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis would be removed. The bases had been the subject of a tense standoff between the Soviet Union and the USA.

9 Washington Post, January 26, 1949
Washington Post, January 26, 1949.Editorial cartoon showing a Russian man yoked to a plow and turning the soil of the "Marshal Stalin Plan", as Joseph Stalin tries to persuade other Russians that "it's the same thing without mechanical problems"; in the background, a man rides on a new tractor "Marshall Plan."

10 This cartoon by the British cartoonist Illingworth was published in June 1947

11 A political cartoon from 1947 about sending aid to Greece and Turkey.

12 U. S. President Reagan and U. S. S. R. president Mikhail Gorbachev
U.S. President Reagan and U.S.S.R. president Mikhail Gorbachev. Daily Telegraph 03 Jan 1986

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