leaders of SU & US 1944-1991:

    • presidents
      • FDR 1944
      • Truman
      • Eisenhower
      • Kennedy
      • Johnson
      • Nixon
      • Ford
      • Carter
      • Reagan
      • Bush
    • General
      • General McArthur
      • General Marshall
    • Dulles
    • George Kennan
      • the Long Telegram
      • the father of Containment
    • Albert Einstein
    • Acheson
      • Secretary of state during the eraly years

    Mao
    Martin Luther King
    Kim Il Sung
    Rhee Syngman
    Winston Churchill
    Clement Attlee
    Castro
    Batista
    General Clay
    Tito

    • accepted the Marshall Plan

    Ulbricht

    • ruler of GDR

    Hoenecker

    • GDR

    Welesa

    • Poland ruler

    Dubcek

    • President of Czechoslovakia Community Party

    Masaryk

    • President of Czechoslovakia

    Havel

    • last president of Czechoslovakia

    Nagy
    Gero
    Kadar
    Adenauer
    Thatcher-Reagan-Kohl
    de Gaulle
    Mitterand

    • all winners of WW2 agreed for the unification of Germany

    Ho Chi Minh
    Diem
    Kissinger

    • Nixon’s secretary of state

    McNamara

    • Secretary of Defense under president Kennedy and president Johnson

    Westmoreland
    McCarthy

    • from state of Wisconsin
    • says everyone in the US gov. is communist
    • Red scare

    Muhammad Mosaddegh
    Nassar

    • in Egypt
    • Suez canal incident

    USSR

    • PM
      • Stalin 1944
      • Khrushchev
      • Brezhinev
      • Andropov
      • Chernenko
      • Gorbachev 1991
    • Foreign ministers
      • Molotov

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    Eisenhower kind of tricked by (BP - Britain Peotroleum; controlled oil wealth in Iran)

    • UK -> ruler of Iran sort of communist -> convinced US allied together to overthrow -> Irish irritated -> Iran revolution
    • Ayatollah (title: an Islamic scholar)

    Proxy war

    • Greece civil war
    • Korean war
    • Vietnam war
    • Afghanistan war
    • fighting through a third party
      • unwilling to directly fight each other
    • use 3rd world
      • Korea and Vietnam

    soft & hard wars

    Olympic competitions
    Space war

    Truman Doctrine
    Marshall Plan

    • nobody in history has spent $ to rebuild old enemies before
    • in the eyes of US: altruism and US as super hero!
      • SU: US to dominate Europe with the power of Dollars!
    • how much is it diplomatic and how much is it showing one is better than the other
    • SU also invited to join the Marshall lan but refused
      • Stalin - all countries in EU with Red Army in it have to reject
      • Tito - no any Red Army & communist but accepted it
      • most aid goes to UK
    • coal - main energy source to West Germany
    • energy politics

    Turkey

    • significance in stopping communism spread to the rest of Africa
    • significant for its oil
      • if foreign countries block the oil source US will be blocked with oil

    OPEC

    • 80s, when SU needed $ the most -> Gorbachev no $ to install reforms
    • oil prices played a major role in bothw ars