Cold War (dec 1, 1945 – jul 1, 1991)

Description:

- Battle of Ideologies
Causes:
- Allies wanted countries liberated through war to hold free elections-USSR agrees then backs down and takes over E Europe for "buffer zone"
- US Manhattan project during WW2-> USSR angry that they weren't told (even though they had spies and already knew)

Nato vs. Warsaw Pact
Nuclear Proliferation:
- Hydrogen Bombs -->> mutually assured destruction
Proxy Wars
Red Scare:
- Taft hartley act, federal employee loyalty and security programs, unamerican activities committee -> Hollywood 10
- McCarthyanism

Arms and Space Race
- Hydrogen bomb

Berlin:
- 1948: Berlin Blockade and airlift
- 1958: Krushchev demands NATO abandon W Berlin
-> Summit scheduled for 1960
-> Soviets shoot down U2 American spy plane

Proxy Wars:
Guatemala:
- US stopped socialist movements that threatened US markets
-> US CIA made Guatemala insurgents
--->dictatorship
Cuba:
- Cuba controlled by American investments
- Batista (US) overthrown by Castro (Soviet)
- Fidel Castro: US trained Cubans to overthrow castro
-> Bay of pigs -> Cuba closer to USSR ->Cuban
Missile Crisis
Iran:
- US wanted to bring back shah pahlani for Oil
Vietnam:
- Eisenhower helped south b/c domino theory

Effects:
- undermined American peoples trust in government
- Americans questioned whether the US was the "good guy" after all

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