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Cold War Notes and Document Analysis

2. Ideological Differences
Communism:
Public ownership (govt.)
No political parties
Command economy
Soviet Union & Eastern Europe
Capitalism:
Free market
Private ownership
USA & Western Europe
Democracy:
Voting by the people for representatives
Often worked in tandem with capitalism

3. Cold War
The Cold War was a time period when non-cooperation between the two major world Superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, that caused a fear of nuclear war.

4. NATIONAL POLICIES
Western allies wanted to achieve security by strengthening democracy
Soviets wanted to establish pro-soviet governments in Eastern Europe
The “iron curtain”, a soviet-made barrier that split Europe into communist and non-communist countries, developed
The U.S. implemented a policy of “containment” or keeping communism within its existing boundaries and prevent further Soviet aggression.

5. Cold War: The World Takes Sides

7. Arms Race Intense competition to build up weapons arsenal
Strong emphasis on technology, especially space and military
USSR develops nuclear weapons

9. Proxy Wars US and USSR never fought a “hot” war against one another
Supported nations that were fighting communist/capitalist wars

10. Korean War A fight to halt the spread of communism in Korea
A civil war attempting to reunite Korea, fought by opposing regimes
North backed by Soviet forces
South backed by U.S. forces
June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953
Ends with peninsula divided

11. Vietnam War Prevent Ho Chi Minh and his communist govt.
Communist North Vietnam (Viet Cong) vs.
South Vietnamese rebels backed by U.S. forces
U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s and combat units were deployed beginning in 1965
A peace treaty was signed in 1973 by all parties and the U.S. withdrew its troops
1975 Saigon fell to North Vietnam
Vietnam is still communist today

12. The Berlin Wall
In 1961 the Soviets built the Berlin wall to divide East Germany from West Germany.
Anyone who tried to cross the wall would be shot.

13. The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall became the symbol for the “Iron Curtain.”
The “Iron Curtain” is the term for the imaginary border between the communist nations and the members of NATO.