Cold War
Indirect/proxy war between the United States and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR)
Capitalism/Democracy
Communism
1945 – 1989 (Duration of the Cold War)
- The two superpowers never faced each other directly with weapons
(feared use of hazardous nuclear weapons)
- Fought indirectly through factors of:
o Spying
CIA (U.S.)
KGB (USSR)
o Information
Media releases to promote own point of view
o Proxy Wars
Ex. The Arab-Israeli conflict
Supporting opposing sides of a conflict
o Prestige
Victories of sports gains
o Threats
o Space Race
Ex. Moon landing
o Nuclear Arms Race
- Sudden, abrupt end in 1989
Diefenbunker: Safe houses for key government members in the case of a
nuclear attack, commissioned by prime minister John Diefenbaker in 1959 as
part of the government’s response to the escalating Cold War.
McCarthyism: An outrageously accusive campaign against alleged communists
participating in the U.S. government. Although many were in fact not
communists, they were fired, blacklisted, and some jailed.
Brinkmanship: The practice of driving a dangerous situation to the very edge
before stopping, seen especially in politics.
- Capitalist/Democratic - Communist East
West
Privately owned industry and Government owns all industry and
individual investment profits are land
kept
Media releases censored
Freedom of speech
Even wealth share, lower general
, Free elections: People chooses living standards
government
Ruled by communist alone, no
Extreme wealth and poverty class other parties allowed.\
gaps
KEY EVENTS
- 1945:
o Yalta conference: Government of U.K, U.S and Soviet Union
gathers to discuss reorganization of Germany and Europe after
WWII.
o Potsdam Conference: Leaders of U.K, U.S and Soviet Union
gathers to negotiate postwar peace, and try to avoid consequences of
the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
o U.S. Bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Authorized by Harry S.
Truman – The only U.S. President to have ever ordered nuclear
attack – with possible guesses of reason to force Japan surrender in
WWII, as well as to declare U.S.’s dominating position and threaten
Soviet force.
o Four Zones: Following German’s defeat after WWII, German was
split into four zones of occupation by the Allies, where Soviet took
the large chunk of eastern Germany, and U.S., U.K., and France
shared the West.
- 1946:
o Churchill – Iron Curtain Speech: Speech made in Westminster
College at Fulton, a message that called for U.S. and U.K. to unite to
stop the spread of Soviet communism. Iron curtain describing the
dividing line of ideologies/political boundaries of the now two parted
Europe (End of WWII till the end of the Cold War).
Indirect/proxy war between the United States and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR)
Capitalism/Democracy
Communism
1945 – 1989 (Duration of the Cold War)
- The two superpowers never faced each other directly with weapons
(feared use of hazardous nuclear weapons)
- Fought indirectly through factors of:
o Spying
CIA (U.S.)
KGB (USSR)
o Information
Media releases to promote own point of view
o Proxy Wars
Ex. The Arab-Israeli conflict
Supporting opposing sides of a conflict
o Prestige
Victories of sports gains
o Threats
o Space Race
Ex. Moon landing
o Nuclear Arms Race
- Sudden, abrupt end in 1989
Diefenbunker: Safe houses for key government members in the case of a
nuclear attack, commissioned by prime minister John Diefenbaker in 1959 as
part of the government’s response to the escalating Cold War.
McCarthyism: An outrageously accusive campaign against alleged communists
participating in the U.S. government. Although many were in fact not
communists, they were fired, blacklisted, and some jailed.
Brinkmanship: The practice of driving a dangerous situation to the very edge
before stopping, seen especially in politics.
- Capitalist/Democratic - Communist East
West
Privately owned industry and Government owns all industry and
individual investment profits are land
kept
Media releases censored
Freedom of speech
Even wealth share, lower general
, Free elections: People chooses living standards
government
Ruled by communist alone, no
Extreme wealth and poverty class other parties allowed.\
gaps
KEY EVENTS
- 1945:
o Yalta conference: Government of U.K, U.S and Soviet Union
gathers to discuss reorganization of Germany and Europe after
WWII.
o Potsdam Conference: Leaders of U.K, U.S and Soviet Union
gathers to negotiate postwar peace, and try to avoid consequences of
the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
o U.S. Bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Authorized by Harry S.
Truman – The only U.S. President to have ever ordered nuclear
attack – with possible guesses of reason to force Japan surrender in
WWII, as well as to declare U.S.’s dominating position and threaten
Soviet force.
o Four Zones: Following German’s defeat after WWII, German was
split into four zones of occupation by the Allies, where Soviet took
the large chunk of eastern Germany, and U.S., U.K., and France
shared the West.
- 1946:
o Churchill – Iron Curtain Speech: Speech made in Westminster
College at Fulton, a message that called for U.S. and U.K. to unite to
stop the spread of Soviet communism. Iron curtain describing the
dividing line of ideologies/political boundaries of the now two parted
Europe (End of WWII till the end of the Cold War).
