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1 COLD WAR IN THE AMERICAS

2 Required Reading Smith, Talons, chs. 4-6 CR #2: Documents on the Cold War

3 CHRONOLOGY OF COLD WAR 1941-45World War II (Europe and Asia) 1946Churchill speech on “iron curtain” 1947Truman Doctrine 1948Berlin airlift 1949Soviet atomic bomb, Communist victory in China 1950-53Korean War 1965-75Vietnam War 1962Cuban missile crisis 1989Collapse of Berlin Wall 1990-91Implosion of Soviet Union

4 THE U.S. AND THE COLD WAR Credos: Ideology and Assumptions 1.Bipolar conflict 2.The need for “containment” 3.Geopolitics, dominoes, and the Third World 4.Marxism and the developing world

5 Joseph Stalin, 1878-1953

6 Allied leaders meeting at Yalta, 1945

7 Harry S. Truman, 1948

8 Mao Zedong, 1966

9 Shaping U.S. Policy 1.Monroe redux: cordoning off the Americas 2.Economic aid: the Alliance for Progress 3.Purging the body politic 4.Containing revolution: Guatemala (1954) Bay of Pigs (1961) Dominican Republic (1965) Chile (1973) Grenada (1983) Central America (1980s)

10 The Kennedy White House: John Jr. advising his father

11 Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

12 Reflections 1.Reality vs. ideology 2.Imagining alternatives (?) 3.On the language of “war”

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