The Cold War
What is the Cold War?
Foreign Policy
Containment
Truman
Doctrine
Marshall
Plan
Major Events
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Alliances
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Warsaw Pact
Major Events of the Cold War
Nuclear Arms
Race
Space Race
Korean War
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House of UnAmerican
Activities
Committee
Cold War at Home
US government fears the spread of communism
McCarthyism
Alger Hiss
Julius and
Ethel
Rosenberg
Containment and Action
Containment
Foreign policy to keep communism where it had already spread
Domino
Theory
Eisenhower
Doctrine
Fear of communist expansion led to Vietnam War
Vietnam War
At the end of WWII, Vietnam divided into North (Communist) and South (non-Communist) at the 17th parallel.
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
Vietnam at Home
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As the war dragged on many questioned it.
1967 – 50,000 try to close the Pentagon
Kent State
Massacre
Results of Vietnam
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Modern technology is not enough to defeat strong nationalism
• Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos all fell to communism
• Difficult to win war without public support
Ending of Cold War
Détente
Strategic
Arms
Limitation
Talks
End of the Cold War
• Arms race bankrupts the Soviet Union.
• Anti-communists gain force in E. Europe
• Berlin Wall torn down in Nov. 1989
• Soviet Union collapses in 1991
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We
It
We
No
didn't start the fire
was always burning since the world's been turning
didn't start the fire
we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokoffiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place," trouble in the Suez
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur," space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho," Belgians in the Congo
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia," British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune," Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone, will it still burn on and on and on and on