The+Cold+War

The Cold War included the nations of Russia, the USA, and occurred from 1945 to 1991. These attacks had strengthened the feud between Russia and the USA. Wars that occurred during this period were the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. They were fighting about communism vs capitalism. The USA wanted to prevent the spread of communism throughout Asia and Europe, while Russia wanted to ensure the spread of communism. Problems had occurred with the USA when China had become a nation of communism due to their leader. When the USA had tried to help South Korea to fend off North Korea with the spread of communism, China had started to help North Korea and even more problems had started to arise.

Linking Activity: NATO/Warsaw Pact/"East"/"West" The "West" nations were unsure how to deal to act when the "East" countries would attempt to an attack so they had joined together to form NATO which is a defensive military alliance among the nations. The "East" nations felt threatened by NATO, especially the Soviet Union so they had established the Warsaw Pact which is very similar to NATO.

East Germany/West Germany/Berlin Airlift/Josef Stalin Josef Stalin had noticed that people from East Germany, especially East Berlin didn't like the communist way of life so they had migrated to a part of West Germany which was West Berlin. Stalin wanted to stop this by creating the Berlin Wall, and to turn the people from West Berlin into communists, he created the Berlin Blockade. To prevent the people of West Berlin into communists, US and Britain worked together in creating the Berlin Airlift which was the sending of necessary items to the people of West Berlin.

Cold War/Communism/Capitalism/ Arms Race/Space Race/Vietnam War/Korean War The Cold War was a non-physical war between the Soviet Union and the US, it was a clash of ideas which was communism versus capitalism. They had competitions among one another that weren't even related to the topic which was the arms race and the space race. They had taken part in proxy wars that centered on the clash of ideas like in the Vietnam War and Korean War.

Winston Churchill/Harry Truman/Iron Curtain/ Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan/Containment Policy/Domino Theory Winston Churchill and Harry Truman who were leaders of their nations, had done a lot of work individually that had aided one another. Winston Churchill had revealed the separation of communist nations and capitalist nations through the iron curtain. Harry Truman had noticed that and had established the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Containment Policy, and the Domino Theory. These policies had tried to prevent nations near communism from turning into communist nations.

Fidel Castro/Nikita Khrushchev/Soviet Union /Cuban Missile Crisis/John F Kennedy Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro had an agreement to allow the Soviet Union to bring their weapons into Cuba to be used when necessary. John F Kennedy found out about this and had an idea to surround Cuba with ships, until the weapons were brought back to the Soviet Union. This event was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

UN General Assembly/Politburo The two nations had created policies in their own committees. The Soviet Union had the politburo and the US had the UN general assembly. These committees had created policies that would lead to a lot of dispute among the nations.

M ikhail Gorbachev/Détente/Ronald Reagan Mikhail Gorbachev who was the leader of the Soviet Union, and Ronald Reagan were able to establish a détente. When doing this it had brought peace, but the Soviet Union began to crumble and it was taken over by their own people. Stalin's Speech Churchill's Speech Truman's Speech Knowledge of the Cold War that I was able to learn from these three speeches was how they woud blame the other side for any mishap. Also that they thought they were being bullied and how the other side could explode like a bomb at any second if certain measures weren't reached. Within Josef Stalin's speech he saw that the, "result of the first crisis in the development of the capitalist world economy, the First World War arose." Stalin had felt this way towards the Second World War as well. In general he sees that the, "development of world capitalism does not allow a steady and even course forward but proceeds through crises and catastrophes." This overall idea created by Stalin made it appear as if the Soviet Union were saints, who were lucky to survive the crises constructed by the capitalist nations. When Churchill and Truman were giving their speeches in the US, Churchill was describing the threat of the Soviet Union and that if we do not pay attention to what they are doing, they could attack us next. Churchill was very paranoid towards the USSR thinking that at any point that they would be knocking on his door step. Truman had an indirect appraoch revealing that they should help Turkey and Greece due to the fact that they could be conquered by the USSR which will make them stronger and more of a threat to the capitalist nations. The Churchill had informed the whole world of how Europe was living and divided by a figurative "iron curtain," while Truman had tried to persuade the "joint session of Congress," to create the Truman Doctrine. Two Sides, One Story
 * What knowledge about the Cold War did you learn from these three speeches?**

=__**The Korean War**__=

How does the Korean War shed light on the broad themes of the Cold War?
I believe that the Korean war was a Proxy War because the war appeared to have most of the work and help coming from the opposing powers than the nations that were fighting in the war because most of the decisions and actions from either side were being done by either the USA or China instead of North and South Korea. When the war was occurring at the start where North Korea was pushing South Korea and the US back, it was the US general McArthur who made the decision in fighting from another point in Korea and not by any of the people in South Korea. Also when North Korea was nearly being destroyed by the US, it was China who had fought back to bring the US and South Korea back to the 38th parallel. Also the stalemate was created by China and the US mainly and not any of the Koreas. What the US was doing was that they had fought with South Korea in order to prevent the spread of communism that China and North Korea were bringing. It was a Civil war because the war had started out as a war between North Korea and South Korea, when North Korea had started out by trying to invade South Korea. Korean War Summary 1)Korea worth-while? 2) Expectations on truce 3) US Success or Failure? I had chosen the "Korea worth-while?" as the most important one because this poll had revealed that on October 1952, November 1952, January 1953, and April 1953, at least 50% of the people who had participated in the poll for each had believed that the war in Korea was not worth fighting for. This reveals that a lot of americans didn't believe that the US should have taken part in the war in Korea. This reveals that the americans had believed that the US was wasting lives in the Korean War and that those who had lost loved ones shouldn't have because the US shouldn't have fought in Korea. Especially since the US didn't fully change anything due to the fact that the way Korea was before the start of the civil war is the way that it still is after the US intervened.
 * Opener(10/31):**
 * Do you Believe the Korean War was a Civil War or a Proxy War ( war that results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.)?**
 * __3 Most Important Points from US Poll on Korea__**

=__ Cuban Missile Crisis __=

JFK notes on Cuban Missile Crisis Castro Video Notes Final Draft Geneva Convention and Mai Lai Massacre
 * Observations:**
 * 1) The Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan from two different positions via land.
 * 2) The air bridge was directed towards the city Kabul.
 * 3) The Soviet Union left a majority of Afghanistan to not be controlled by them.
 * 4) The cities in which the invasion routes had ended were in Kandahar, Jalalabad, and Faisabad.
 * 5) The Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan via airplane, and also via vehicles, while the airplanes were able to go in at a certain city, while via vehicles had to go through cities that they probably didn't plan to invade.

__**Do Now(12/9)**__ 1) Albania has an emerging democratic government system. 2) Our economy is rebuilding after living under communism during the Cold War. 3) Our natural resources are natural gas, copper, timber, and hydropower. 4) We are in the Balkan peninsula, and are very vulnerable to an attack via the sea. 5) Some of our major industries are chemicals, mining, and basic metals. 6) Our major religions are Islam and Christianity. 7) One of our major imports are chemicals. 8) The ratio of men to women is 0.98:1. We are made up with more women than men throughout the ages. 9) Our neighboring countries are Montenegro, Serbia, Greece, and Macedonia. 10) We have a 98.7% literacy rate. Cold War SEPA Reflection on the Cold War Unit