1. The Cold War Conflicting Ideologies; Conflicting Superpowers

2. Adam Smith Laissez-faire  The Government should not intervene in the market Individuals are free to buy and sell as they please in the market Supply and demand determine price Entrepreneurs open new businesses in the hopes of gaining profits Capital is invested in the hopes of gaining profits

3. Karl Marx Co-authored with Friedrich Engels; The Communist Manifesto According to Marx, the history of the world is a history of class struggle The proletariat will unite and overthrow the bourgeoisie A dictatorship of the proletariat will usher in a new era

4. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat Abolish Private Property Abolish Social Classes Economic Equality

5. And then the dictatorship of the proletariat will wither away… Or will it?

6. Allies During the Second World War Yes, Stalin and Roosevelt formed an unlikely alliance with Churchill during the Second World War However, this alliance’s purpose was to confront a greater threat

8. The Cold War However, with the defeat of the Fascists, conflicting ideologies led to conflict and tension The Soviet Union embraced Marxism and dictatorship. The United States embraced capitalism and democracy.

9. Soviet Satellites in the East Stalin installed communist regimes in Eastern Europe to ensure a buffer zone or protection from a Western invasion Western democracies referred to these Eastern European nations as satellites

10. An Iron Curtain Had Descended

11. The Alliances: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - The United States and its Allies The Warsaw Pact - The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

12. The Alliances: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - The United States and its Allies The Warsaw Pact - The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

13. USA Containment Policy: To Stop the Spread of Communism

14. 1949: -NATO established -Soviets tested an atomic bomb -Communists establish People’s Republic of China

15. 1950-1953: -North Korea invades South Korea -Korean War ensues -The original line of demarcation is maintained

16. Stalin died in 1953: Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964) Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982)

17. 1959: -Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba succeeds -A Communist state is established

18. Bay of Pigs (1961) was a failure in foreign policy for U.S.A. U.S. had aided Cuban exiles in an attempt to invade the island but Castro was aware of the plan and the plan failed Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) was a success for American foreign policy  Soviet missiles on Cuban soil  Kennedy demanded removal and yes, removed

21. And of course, there was the Vietnam War North Vietnam  Communist under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh South Vietnam  Non-communist dictatorship; civil war ensues; U.S. troops intervene 1975  South Vietnam falls to communism Vietnam  Unified under a communist regime

23. During “Prague Spring” of 1968, Czechoslovakia embarked on a campaign of liberalizing reforms, Brezhnev sent in a Warsaw Pact invasion force Brezhnev Doctrine  USSR had right to intervene in Eastern Europe

24. But from 1969 through 1979, the Cold War entered a more peaceful period known as détente, a diplomatic term referring to the relaxation of tensions

25. But greatest surprise  the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

26. Cold War Cartoons