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US History
The Dates
1. 1945 through 1990
2. 1950s beginnings of the Arms Race
3. 1950s Korean War
4. 1960s beginnings of the Space Race
5. 1960s Vietnam War
6. 1970s Detente -- two sides coexist
7. 1980s Renewed Arms Race
Yalta Conference
1. Free Elections in Poland
2. Creation of the UN
1. Trying to avoid what happened during WWII
2. Leaders of the Axis Powers would be put on trial at the
Nuremberg Trials for Crimes against humanity
3. Division of Germany
2 Superpowers
1. US
Democratic
2. Free Enterprise -- Capitalism
3. More Individual Rights
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2. USSR
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United States
1. Become the worlds wealthiest economy
2. Adopt a policy of CONTAINMENT, where we
try to contain Communism where it already
exist.
3. The US begins to rebuild Western Europe
(Marshall Plan) and rebuild Japan
4. To stop the spread of Communism, the US
fought wars in Korea and then Vietnam
United States
1. Once the Soviets gain atomic capability the
US will engage in an Arms Race
2. Alliances form and the US leads the NATO
alliance.
3. In the early 1960s, the US avoids potential
war with the Soviet in the Cuban Missile
Crisis (JFK)
Western Europe
1. Capitalist and Democratic
2. Was rebuilt by the Marshall Plan
3. Part of NATO
4. Divide between Eastern Europe and
Western Europe is called the Iron Curtain
Germany
1. It is divided between Communist East
Germany and Democratic West Germany
2. Its capital, Berlin, is also divided
3. To keep Berlin from falling the Allies after
WWII airlift supplies into Berlin (Berlin
Airlift)
4. Eventually, they will build the Berlin Wall to
keep East Germans in
USSR
1. Stalin conducted several 5 years plans in an
attempt to industrialize his nation
2. Stalin seized control of farmland forming
large collectives
3. Stalin eliminated all political enemies during
his Great Purge
4. In 1949 the soviets tested their first atomic
bomb
Eastern Europe
1. These countries have Communist
dictatorships under the influence of the
Soviet Union
2. Eastern Block or Soviet Satellites
3. They will fall behind Western Europe
Economically
4. The Soviets and Eastern Europe form the
Warsaw Pact
Vietnam @ Home
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Japan
1. US will rebuild Japan following WWII
2. Japan will be protected by the US military and will not
rebuild their military
3. Japan will become democratic
4. Japan will become an economic power
5. Japan will begin to export many high quality consumer
goods.
6. Japan also protected its industries against competition
China and US
1. Had no relations before Nixon visited
2. Since restoring relations and trade, US and China are
now trading partners and are connected Economically.
3. China becomes a mixed economy and not just a
command economy. China allows free enterprize into
country
4. Growing economy with growing Middle Class, but
prosperity in cities only, still much poverty.
Mikhail Gorbachev
1. New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, began a
series of reforms to try to bring the Soviet
Economy/Culture to life
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