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Introduction to the Postwar Era
Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War. The war was not fought on American soil, the nation's infrastructure was largely untouched. The first major Cold War flare-up was the Korean War. Extra information: http://goo.gl/Bsx1UB -
The Cold War
The Cold War consisted of many countries being involved. The two main armies of the war were the United States and the Soviet Union. They both had allies. The United states was with the Western part of Europe while the Soviet Union was with the eastern part. More information: http://goo.gl/IMD5dt -
The Development of The Cold War
The Soviet Union was not prepared to give up its control of Eastern Europe after Germany's defeat. American leaders were not willing to give up the power and prestige the United States had gained throughout the world. The United States and the Soviet Union became suspicious of each other's motives and became rivals. -
Cold War introduction
The Cold War was more of a political matter rather than fighting between th United States and the Soviet Union. Tensions between the U.S and USSR had existed before the Cold War even began. The first Cold War battle was over the fate of Europe, France, Britain, the U.S and the Soviet Union. Extra information: http://goo.gl/Xye2zb -
Churchill's speech
Russia, Britain and the United States , formed an alliance during World War II, defeating the Germans and Italians in Western Europe and the Japanese in the Pacific. Towards the end of the war, Winston Churchill , prime minister of Great Britain, began to be suspicious of the Russian quest for expansion over the entire region of Eastern Europe. Extra information: http://goo.gl/agUhK0 -
Europe
The United States and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should freely determine their own governments. Stalin feared that the Eastern European nations would be anti-Soviet if they allowed free elections. A civil war in Greece between the Communist People's Liberation Army and anti communist forces to determine who will get control over Greece. Great Britain supported the anti communist but they had their own problems which caused it to withdraw from Greece. -
The Truman Doctrine
United States President Harry S. Truman created the Truman Doctrine because of the British withdraw and the possibility of Soviet/Communist expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean. The Truman Doctrine said that the United States would provide money to countries threatened by communist expansion. If the Soviets were not stopped, the United States would have to face the spread of communism throughout the world. -
Rise of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union suffered heavy loss but they were able to rebuild and expand their domain to other European countries. The Soviet Union decided to divide Germany into four zones. Each zone would be occupied by a major power in the war—the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. -
Crusade against Communism
Joseph McCarthy began his crusade against Communism with a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia. Denouncin Communism on moral and religious reasons rather than on political or economic ones, he claimed that he had a list of 205 people in the State Department who were members of the American Communist Party. Extra information: http://goo.gl/sNWUTc -
Cold War Spreading
The Cold War spread to Asia in 1950 which was the year the Soviet Union formed an alliance with China. North Korea attacked South Korea and started the Korean War. The United States assisted South Korea by helping to establish the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and providing neutral Asian countries with military support. -
Cold War Escalation
President Harry Truman announced on May 8, 1950, that the United States would give military and economic aid to the French in the Indochina struggle. U.S. was paying for one-third of the French effort in Indochina. It supplied the French with arms and materiel, and two hundred air force technicians. -
Global Events
The Soviet Union had initially pledged to withdraw its troops from Hungary, Khrushchev reversed this decision and decided to crush the revolution. On November 4, he sent a large contingent of Soviet troops into Budapest. Hungarian resistance continued, but the small militia forces were no match for the Soviet military. Extra information: http://goo.gl/AGRlPZ -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built by an East German state. In 1957, fleeing to the West of the wall became a crime punishable with a prison sentence. After a successful tour of the United States and discussions with President Dwight Eisenhower at Camp David, Khrushchev began thinking a compromise over Berlin was possible.
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Passage of the War powers act
With the rise of communism and the nuclear age, the president of the United States took on an unprecedented amount of personal responsibility and power. President Harry Truman alone had to make the difficult decision to bomb Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. Extra information: http://goo.gl/Ih8I0A -
Third World and the Cold War
The Cold War was happening along with many other important things such as an Iran hostage situation and a failed rescue mission along with many other things in other countries throughout the world. Extra information: http://goo.gl/znhw2F -
The Fall of The Berlin Wall
East German government decided to relax its travel restrictions. An announcement in the news media seemed to suggest that the border between East Germany and West Germany was to be opened immediately, although this was far from what the government had intended. Extra information: http://goo.gl/zkpBEA -
The Berlin Wall falls
The building of the BerlinWall effectively created a coun try of political prisoners. East Germans were not allowed to leave the country without going through extensive bureaucratic red tape to secure a visa. Usually such efforts were unsuccessful, even if the applicant had good reasons for leaving the country, such as a family emergency. Extra information: http://goo.gl/jxepFg -
The End of The Cold War
With the decline of the Soviet Union, the United States was left as the sole military superpower. A number of other nations began research into nuclear weapons. The end of the Cold War did not eliminate the threat of nuclear annihilation. It altered the landscape of international military relations. Extra information: http://goo.gl/yJtGsh -
Post-Cold War
The United States became less interested in Russia and more concerned with security threats from rogue states such as Iraq and Afghanistan, while Russia became less interested in security against American espionage. They were more concerned with encouraging much-needed investment from American companies in the disastrous post-Soviet economy.
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After the Cold War
The Cold War has ended and there was no longer superpower competition. The sobiet Union met its demise in 1991. Many world states were struggling because they were independent from European colonial rule after the war. Extra information: http://goo.gl/CiSmCE -
East and West Europe
The United States and the Soviet Union forced the Eastern and Western European countries to split around the time of the Korean War. The Soviet Union and the United States battled each other with threats and denouncements.they didn't want to destroy everything.