Cold War, Globalisation and the
Rise of US Hegemony:
From Yalta to Vietnam
Dr Andrew Roadnight
15 March 2016
The USA in 1945
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RETURN TO THE GREAT
DEPRESSION?
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‘CITY UPON THE HILL’
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MANIFEST DESTINY
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USA – AN IMPERIAL NATION
The USSR in 1945
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USSR’S WWII SACRIFICE
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SOVIET SECURITY CONCERNS
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LENIN’S THEORY OF IMPERIALISM
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VANGUARD OF THE OPPRESSED
Outbreak of the Cold War
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GRAND ALLIANCE FALLS APART
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CONTEST FOR EASTERN EUROPE
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SOVIET SUSPICIONS OF THE WEST
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CHARACTERS OF THE LEADERS
Outbreak of the Cold War
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SOVIET PRESSURE: IRAN (1946)
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CHURCHILL’S IRON CURTAIN
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KENNAN’S ‘CONTAINMENT
THEORY’
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THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (1947)
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ZHADANOV – ‘TWO CAMPS’
NSC 68
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SOVIET A-BOMB (1949)
CHINESE REVOLUTION – MAO
ZEDONG
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NSC 68 (APRIL 1950)
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KOREAN WAR (25 JUNE 1950)
The Korean War
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SYNGMAN RHEE
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KIM IL SUNG
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‘ROLLBACK’
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WEST GERMANY AND JAPAN
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SINO-SOVIET FRICTION
The Cold War and the 3rd World
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DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND
‘MASSIVE RETALIATION’
NIKITA KHRUSCHEV AND
‘PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE’
NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT
(BANDUNG, 1955)
NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
Détente in Europe
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LEONID BREZHNEV AND ‘DÉTENTE’
WILLY BRANDT: A SETTLEMENT IN
GERMANY (1973)
EUROPEAN SECURITY
CONFERENCE
THE HELSINKI DECLARATION
(1975)
Countdown to Vietnam
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1950s: THE AMERICAN DREAM
THE CIA, NATIONALISM AND THE
‘DOMINO THEORY’
HO CHI MINH & DIEN BIEN PHU
(1954)
THE GENEVA CONFERENCE (1955)
Vietnam: An American Disaster
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NGO DINH DIEM – SINK OR SWIM
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US MILITARY COMMITMENT:
1960 – <1000; 1963 – 16,000; 1968 – 568,000
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USSR ACHIEVES NUCLEAR PARITY
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1968: NIXON ELECTED
Détente
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SUMMIT CONFERENCES 1972,
1973, 1974
ARMS CONTROL, MISSILE
REDUCTION, TRADE DEALS
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1973: CEASEFIRE IN VIETNAM
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1975: DÉTENTE IS DEAD
The Cold War: An Assessment