The Cold War 1947 1989 Winston S Churchill

The Cold War 1947 - 1989 Winston S. Churchill: "Iron Curtain Speech", March 5, 1946 Fall of the Berlin Wall – NOV 9, 1989

America’s Wars 1750 French & Indian Revolution 1812 3 Seminole Wars Mexican 1850 Civil Indian Boxer Spanish Philippine WWI Banana WWII Greek Wars Rebellion American Insurrection Wars Civil 1950 Korea Cold War Vietnam Nicaragua Desert Storm Iraqi Afghanistan Freedom 1850 1950 Present

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Spectrum of War Cost Risk Crime Terrorism Guerrilla Lo-Intensity Conventional Limited Nuclear

PRUSSIA BERLIN POLAND WEST EAST POSTWAR PARTITION OF GERMANY

The Cold War World

Mr. “X” or the “X Article” The Sources of Soviet Conduct By “X” George Kennan, Undersecretary of State Foreign Policy magazine, May 1947 Containment

USSR Containment

NATO Japan Greece Korea SEATO Vietnam

The Cold War World

Cold War Events 1950 -1955 Greek Civil War – MAR 1946 – OCT 1949 Truman Doctrine – MAR 1947; Marshall Plan 1948 -1952 Berlin Airlift – JUN 1948 – MAY 1949 Communist conquest of China – 1934 - 1949 Russian Atomic Bomb – AUG 1949 Korean War – JUL 1950 - 1954 US Fusion Bomb – NOV 1952 Russian Fusion Bomb – AUG 1953 1 st Indochinese War – 1946 -1954 NATO – 1949, Warsaw Pact - 1955 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg – JUN 1953 Mc. Carthy hearings – MAR - JUN 1954

Greek Civil War 1946 -1949 The Truman Doctrine

British Mideast Occupation

Partition of India 1947

Cold War Events 1950 -1955 Greek Civil War – MAR 1946 – OCT 1949 Truman Doctrine – MAR 1947; Marshall Plan 1948 -1952 Berlin Airlift – JUN 1948 – MAY 1949 Communist conquest of China – 1934 - 1949 Russian Atomic Bomb – AUG 1949 Korean War – JUL 1950 - 1954 US Fusion Bomb – NOV 1952 Russian Fusion Bomb – AUG 1953 1 st Indochinese War – 1946 -1954 NATO – 1949, Warsaw Pact - 1955 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg – JUN 1953 Mc. Carthy hearings – MAR - JUN 1954

Mutual Assured Destruction(MAD) • Triad – Manned Bombers, Land based Ballistic Missiles, Fleet Ballistic Missiles • MIRV – Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicle • SDI – Strategic Defense Initiative – “Star Wars” • Nuclear proliferation • START – Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

The Nuclear Triad MAD Mutual Assured Destruction

MIRV – Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicle

Cold War Events – 1955 -1991 • • • • Hungarian Revolution – 1956 Suez Canal Crisis – OCT 1956 Wars of National Liberation Space Race Cuban Revolution – 1958 Berlin Crisis & Berlin Wall 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis – 1962 2 d Indochinese War (Vietnam) – 1957 -1975 Arab/Israeli 6 Day War - 1967 Czechoslovakian Invasion -1968 Sino America rapprochement - 1972 SALT 1 – 1972, SALT 2 – 1979 Arab Israeli 1973 War Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - 1980

Britain & the Middle East

1973 Cease-Fire Lines

The Great Cultural Revolution 1966 -1976

Soviet Dissolution – 1980 - 1991

The Wall Comes Down – OCT-NOV 1989