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Origins of Cold War Conflict Notes
Butter Battle-Dr. Seuss
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2. THE COLD WAR!

3. BR: The Cold War Chronology 1945-1990
The U.N. is established
1949
China becomes communist
1954
The Communists defeat France in Vietnam
1959
Castro creates communist gov’t in Cuba
1950
The Korean War begins
1948
Berlin airlift begins
1957
The Soviets Launch Sputnik

4. The Cold War
A conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945 until 1991
Neither nation directly confronts each other on the battlefield
Dominates global affairs and US foreign policy

5. The Yalta Conference
At the end of WWII the Big 3 met to discuss the post-war world. Some view this as the beginning of the big storm that would cool into the Cold War

6. Capitalism Cont’d

7. Communism vs. Capitalism
State controlled property & economy
Totalitarian regime
Private controlled property
Supply & demand
Elections

8. Karl Marx & Fredrick Engels
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEED!” KARL MARX
1848 Communist Manifesto
Detailed the struggle of the classes
A philosophy to improve equality for all!

10. intended to promote peace
United Nations
intended to promote peace
Became an arena where the two superpowers competed and spread their influence

11. Both strong enough to influence world events
Former Allies Clash
Both strong enough to influence world events
Stalin resentful of Allies’ delay attacking Germany & of atomic bomb secrecy

12. The United Nations 1945

13. Potsdam Conference
Bargaining
Soviets wanted reparations from Germany
Truman wanted nations to have right to self-determination

14. Potsdam continued…

15. Soviets Tighten Grip on Eastern Europe
Soviet Union had emerged from WWII as an enormous economic and military power
Stalin installed communist governments in satellite nations
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Poland
In early 1946, Stalin gave a speech announcing capitalism and communism were incompatible and another war was inevitable

16. Truman: “Stop babying the Soviets.”
Containment
Truman: “Stop babying the Soviets.”
Containment: taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries
Became Truman’s foreign policy mission

17. Soviet Satellite Nations

18. Containment
“Iron Curtain”: The division in Europe
Democratic Western Europe
Communist Eastern Europe
Stalin believed these words were a call for war

20. BRINKMANSHIP!
is the practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of—or to the brink of—disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome (forcing the opponent to back down and make concessions)
During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear force was often used as such an escalating measure

21. DUCK & COVER VIDEO

22. NUCLEAR ARMS RACE

23. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) assumes that each side has enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the other side
Proponents of MAD as part of U.S. and USSR strategic doctrine believed that nuclear war could best be prevented if neither side could expect to survive a full-scale nuclear exchange
Whoever shoots first, dies second.

25. Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine: “It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting COMMUNISM”
Truman asks Congress for $400 million

26. Over the next 4 years, 16 countries received $13 billion in aid
The Marshall Plan
Sec of State, George Marshall, proposed the US would send aid to all European nations who needed it
Over the next 4 years, 16 countries received $13 billion in aid
Communism was losing its appeal; democracy looked good

27. Clashing over German unification
Occupation Zones
Clashing over German unification
Britain, France and US decided to combine their three zones into one nation
Western part of Berlin was surrounded by Soviet-occupied territory
Stalin closed all routes into West Berlin
No fuel or food could reach the city—only enough to last two weeks

28. Berlin Airlift
In an attempt to break the blockade, Americans and British started the Berlin Airlift
Fly food and supplies into West Berlin
For 327 days, planes took off and landed every few minutes, around the clock
277,000 flights
2.3 million tons of supplies
Fuel, food, Christmas presents
American prestige lifted; Soviets lift the blockade
West Germany vs. East Germany

29. The Berlin Airlift
June 1948-May 1949

30. NATO Alliance The Berlin Blockade increased fear of Soviet Aggression
North Atlantic Treaty Organization: military support pledged to one another (other countries joined subsequently)
Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the US and Canada enter into a defensive military alliance

32. Cold War Conflicts Communist takeover in China Korean War
Red Scare in the U.S.
Suez War
Hungarian Uprising
U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.
Space Race
Arms Race
U-2 Incident
Cuban Missile Crisis

33. The Butter Battle is a Dr
The Butter Battle is a Dr. Seuss book that attempts to create parallels between a mythological Seuss world and the Cold War.
Video Folder

34. What does the wall symbolize?
IRON CURTAIN (OR BERLIN WALL)
What is the difference between the Yooks & the Zooks?  
THE WAY THEY BUTTER THEIR BREAD & COLOR=NOTHING THAT REALLY MATTERS!!!!
Who are the Yooks symbolizing?  
DEMOCRACIES
Who are the Zooks symbolizing?
COMMUNISTS

35. What is the competition for better weapons symbolizing?
NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
Why do you think both sides would stab fun at their enemy?  
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION & BRINKMANSHIP-NO ONE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO DO ANYTHING
What does the world’s most mighty weapon the “Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo” symbolize?
ATOMIC/HYDROGEN BOMB

36. Cold War “Comic Book”

37. Cuban Missile Crisis

40. Thirteen Days-UN Security Council video clip

41. Fall of the Berlin Wall from NBC