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COLDWAR1945-1991
C O L D W A R – US VS USSR
Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR
Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism
In 1922, USSR was formed.
Lenin-Stalin-Khruschev-Brezhnev…Gorbachev
PRESIDENTS FDR NIXON Truman FORD Eisenhower CARTER Kennedy REAGAN Johnson BUSH 41
UNITED NATIONS *World organization to keep peace *Met in San Francisco *UN Security Council US
Great BritainFrance
USSRChina
C O L D W A R – US VS USSR
Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR
Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism Eastern Europe/Satellite nation/Eastern Bloc “Iron Curtain” Containment—US policy of blocking (or
containing) the spread of communism Truman Doctrine—**TURKEY & GREECE** US
would provide economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism
H-bomb
TRUMAN Iron Curtain Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan Berlin Crisis/Berlin Airlift Korean War/*limited war/*fired MacArthur (quote) McCarthy/McCarthyism Rosenburgs/Alger Hiss H-Bomb CIA NATO Red China Israel became a nation--198 HUAC Israel became a nation
C O L D W A R – US VS USSR
Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR
Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism Eastern Europe/Satellite nation/Eastern Bloc “Iron Curtain” Containment—US policy of blocking (or
containing) the spread of communism Truman Doctrine—**TURKEY & GREECE** US
would provide economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism
H-bomb
N
HUACHouse Un-American Committee
EISENHOWER Warsaw Pact Korean War/ceasefire Brinkmanship/MAD/Civil defense drills Secretary of State—John Foster Dulles Suez Canal—Egypt--Nasser, Israel, UN Eisenhower Doctrine Sputnik/Explorer I/NDEA Hungarian uprising U-2 incident Cuba and Castro Domino theory Military-Industrial Complex
KENNEDY Flexible Response Peace Corps Bay of Pigs Invasion Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Hot Line
DOMESTIC ISSUES
1. TRUMAN 2. EISENHOWER 3. KENNEDY 4. LBJ 5. NIXON 6. FORD 7. CARTER
TRUMAN FAIR DEAL LETTERS TO BESS DESEGREGATED THE
MILITARY-Exec Order # 9981 MCCARTHY HUAC
EISENHOWER Class Cartoon Baby Boom; Mom at home; TV dinner Highway Act 1956/interstate, suburbs Levittown Sun Belt-sunny states of s & sw RockNRoll-Elvis Presley Billy Graham Brown v. Brd of Ed/Rosa Parks/LRCrisis
KENNEDY Television Debate with Nixon New Frontier Attorney General-Robert (Bobby)
Kennedy Peace Corps John Glenn—1st American to orbit
earth Assassination—11/22/63 in Dallas,
TX *Lee Harvey Oswald; Warren Comm
LBJ Great Society/War on Poverty Kennedy’s VP/Election of 1964 Civil Rights of 1964/Voting Rights of
1965 Medicare—medical insurance for
over 65 Medicaid—medical insurance for
welfare Robert Weaver—1st black Cab Sec-
HUD Vietnam War—Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution Warren Court
President Lyndon Johnson chooses between two pens to sign legislation that created the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs
NIXON Détente-relaxing of tension between
US/USSR Woodstock-outdoor rock concert in Aug
‘69 Communist China visit Visit to USSR/Brezhnev-leader of USSR Henry Kissinger-NSA then Secretary of
State Spiro Agnew-VP who resigned Gerald Ford-new VP (appointed)
NIXON (cont) SALT-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(treaty) ERA-Equal Rights Amendment/Roe v.
Wade Neil Armstrong-1st man on moon; quote Watergate-1st president to resign; quote Chappaquiddick-incident involving T.
Kennedy EPA-Environmental Protection Agency
F O R D “I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln” VP was Nelson Rockefeller 1st non-elected (appointed) pres South Vietnam fell to
communism Pardoned President Nixon Bicentennial celebration Khmer Rouge-communists in
Cambodia
C A R T E R From Georgia; family VP was Walter Mondale Iran Hostage Crisis-52;Teheran;
Shah;Attempt Camp David Accords-Israel&Egypt; leaders Invasion of Afghanistan by USSR
1980 Moscow Olympics boycott Panama Canal Treaty
1) Becomes Panama’s in 2000 2) US & Panama keep canal neutralThree Mile Island almost nuclear disaster
SHAH OF IRAN