THE COLD WAR USA GOVERNMENT ECONOMY CHARACTERISTICS OF

THE COLD WAR

USA • GOVERNMENT – • ECONOMY – • CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIETY -

USSR • GOVERNMENT – • ECONOMY – • CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIETY -

IRON CURTAIN SPEECH Winston Churchill Separation of Western and Eastern Europe No information from the west could reach the east

SATELLITE NATIONS • Those nations controlled by the USSR after WW II • These nations were called satellites of the USSR • Created a buffer zone for the Soviet Union

THE COLD WAR • DEFINITION: • WEAPONS OF THE COLD WAR

US FIRST FOREIGN POLICY CONTAINMENT TRUMAN DOCTRINE MARSHALL PLAN • What did it do? • Impact

COLLECTIVE SECUTIRY N. A. T. O. WARSAW PLAN

Berlin Blockade & Airlift (194849)

The Hungarian Uprising: 1956 Imre Nagy, Hungarian Prime Minister } Promised free elections. } This could lead to the end of communist rule in Hungary.

U-2 Spy Incident (1960) Col. Francis Gary Powers’ plane was shot down over Soviet airspace.

The Berlin Wall Goes Up (1961) Checkpoint Charlie

Ich bin ein Berliner! (1963) President Kennedy tells Berliners that the West is with them!

Khruschev Embraces Castro, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) We went eyeball-to-eyeball with the Russians, and the other man blinked!

THE DOMINO THEORY

The Korean War: A “Police Action” (1950 -1953) Kim Il-Sung Syngman Rhee “Domino Theory”

Vietnam War: 1965 -1973

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • US ship fired on at the Gulf of Tonkin • Resolution gave President widespread powers to do anything necessary to protect US interests • Later revoked under the War Powers Act of 1973 • President must notify Congress within 48 hours of sending in troops • Can only be sent for 60 days without declaration of war • Can force the President to recall the troops

Cold War at Home • HUAC – House Un-American Activities Committee • Looked into Communist activities • Led BY FBI (J. Edgar Hoover) • Smith Act, 1940 • Made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the government • Supreme Court case: Yates v. US, 1957 • Stated that the act applied only to those who taught or advocated the overthrow of government, not to those who agreed in principle • Mc. Carran-Walter Act, 1952 • Restricted immigration from Communist areas • Loyalty Program, 1947 • Permitted security checks on government employees • Mc. Carran-Walter Act, 1952 • Restricted immigration from Communist areas