Origins of the Cold War
Post War Power Vacuum
Yalta - USSR promises to help fight Japan and hold fair elections in E. Europe
UN - Replaces League of Nations, UN Security Council (US, USSR, England, France, China)
Potsdam - Truman replaces FDR, sets up communist rule of E. Europe
The Containment Strategy
Containment - counter USSR by containing the spread of communism
US over England
Truman Doctrine - US will fight communism using military and economic aid
Marshall Plan - US is scared of another Great Depression and rise of totalitarianism, so they send $13 billion to Europe
Berlin Blockade - US flies supplies to West Berlin because Stalin stopped all travel to West Berlin
Symbol of resistance of communism
NATO is backed by the US
Warsaw Pact is backed by USSR
Yugoslavia is communist, but not part of the USSR block
Nuclear Weapons
USSR Nukes
NSC-68 was released by the National Security Council and advocated for militarization
Containment in Asia
US makes a constitution in Japan
Civil War in China
Mao (communist) vs Jiang Jieshi (capitalist)
Mao wins, China is a communist nation
China allies with the USSR for protection from the US
Korean War (aka the Forgotten War)
North Korea invades South Korea
General MacArthur lead the UN and S. Korea to invade N. Korea
China is drawn into the war
Border ends up near the 38th parallel
Munich Analogy