Cold War

  • causation and continuity

1944

  • Poland disagreement. Polish uprising, Stalin encouraged Polish army to fight the Germans, then marched into Poland.
  • ~ we begin our studies.

1943

1940s

1950s

  • Korean war
  • Sino-Soviet slip

1960s

  • early 60s, Sino-Soviet slip
  • Cuba Missile crisis
  • decolonization & independence movements
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
      • end of British and French empires
    • India and Pakistan
    • East India Company
    • Japan
  • Vietnam war

1970s

  • US power at its weakest
  • political scandals
  • civil movements in US
  • 1978
    • deindustrialization of US
    • stagflation
  • Afghan-Soviet war

1980s

  • Gorbachov & Ragan
  • slow stagnation of SU
  • Eastern Europe - falling Iron Curtain
  • USSR command economy
    • corrupt and unable to satisfy people’s demands
    • lack of labor and resources
  • Chernobyl
  • Afghanistan
  • nuclear arms control
  • NAM - Non-aligned Movement
  • Iranian hostages
    • Islamic revolutions took over Iran

solidarity in Poland and the Berlin blockade
Konrad Adenour
Energy crisis

~October 1989

  • fall of the Berlin wall

1991

  • fall of the SU

Breakup by decades

history buffs

Pingpong diplomacy

space race

Origins of the cold war

  1. conflicts from WW2
    1. US and UK bombing Germany days and nights
    2. different application force
      1. SU use merceneries but US use its own people
      2. so SU willing for sacrifices but US not
  2. Truman doctrine & Marshall plan
  3. Tehren conference
  4. Yalta conference
  5. Potsdam conference
  6. Soviet spheres of influence
    1. Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Finland
  7. personal quality
    1. Stalin - goal no matter what
    2. Roosevelt -> Truman
      1. Roosevelt & Churchill -> SU intervened in Romania and Bulgaria and UK and US didn’t intervene
      2. FDR quite old already
    3. Roosevelt
      1. to establish free trade, UN, self-determination, and independence
        1. didn’t isolate the SU but tried to bring it within the international community
      2. he wanted to get Stalin inside of it
      3. ~ Wilsonian
      4. had good relations for Stalin
        1. mocking Churchill together
        2. Stalin agreed to join the UN
  8. Bosnia
  9. 1944
    1. battle with Japan was slow and painful
    2. Island-topping campaign
  10. 1945
    1. they bombed Japan
  11. Poland crisis
  12. need peace for strong institutions
    1. but decolonization made the freed regions be corrupt and not strong; not leading by those who are really powerful
    2. need a strong power
  13. rebuild damage
    1. heavy reparations for Germany
  14. buffer zone
    1. Stalin didn’t believe that Germany will quit
      1. still wanted protection for the land.

hw: read the Yalta conference and the Potsdam conference