2. Yalta

3. The Cold War [1945-1991]: An Ideological Struggle Soviet & Eastern Bloc Nations [“Iron Curtain”] US & the Western Democracies GOAL  spread world-wide Communism GOAL  “Containment” of Communism & the eventual collapse of the Communist world. [George Kennan] METHODOLOGIES: 1.Espionage [KGB vs. CIA] 2.Arms Race [nuclear escalation] 3.Ideological Competition for the minds and hearts of Third World peoples [Communist govt. & command economy vs. democratic govt. & capitalist economy]  “proxy wars” 4.Bi-Polarization of Europe [NATO vs. Warsaw Pact]

5. The Division of Berlin

6. Potsdam

7. General George C. Marshall

8. Dean Acheson

9. George Kennan

10. George Kennan [“X Article”]: CONTAINMENT Goals Means Actual Application 1.Restoration of the balance of power 2.Reduction of Soviet ability to project outside power. Encouragement of self- confidence in nations threatened by Soviet expansion. Exploitation of tensions in international communism. Long-term program of U.S. economic assistance [Marshall Plan] Cooperation with communist regimes; [supporting Titoism in Yugoslavia]

11. 3.Modification of the Soviet concept of international relations. Negotiating settlement of outstanding differences. Using “carrots & sticks’; containing Germany with an embrace and Russia at arms length. George Kennan [“X Article”]: CONTAINMENT Goals Means Actual Application

12. Truman Doctrine "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

13. NATO & Warsaw Pact

14. NSA

15. National Defense Budget [1940-1964]

16. CIA

17. Langley

18. Allen Dulles

19. John Dulles

20. Chinese Civil War

21. Berlin Airlift

22. Arms Race

25. Korea

26. Korean War [1950-1953]

27. Syngman Rhee Kim Il-Sung “Domino Theory”

28. The Shifting Map of Korea [1950-1953]

30. MacArthur

31. McCarthy & Cohn

32. J. Edgar Hoover, Royal Miller, Clyde Tolson and Joseph McCarthy on holiday in California.Clyde TolsonJoseph McCarthy

33. From left,—fr Hollywood Ten

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower

35. Suez Crisis

36. Iran

37. Ho Chi Minh

38. Nikita Khrushchev

39. U2 Incident

40. Sputnik