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Conflict between the
communists and
democratic nations
Communists were led by
the Soviet Union
Democratic nations led
by the United States
Source: http://www.funfront.net/hist/europe/coldwar.htm
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Signed March 17th, 1948
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Signed by Belgium,
France, Luxemburg, the
Netherlands, and the
United Kingdom
Established the Western
Union
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Support in economic,
social, and cultural
matters
Signing of the Treaty of Brussels
Source: http://www.ena.lu/signing-brussels-treaty-brussels-17-march-1948-020704497.html
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April 4, 1949
12 Nations joined
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United States, Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Norway,
Portugal, Italy, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands
and Luxemburg
Members of the organization all agreed that Russian
Communism would become a threat to the
democratic world
Result: European countries came together under
American control.
Source: http://www.funfront.net/hist/europe/coldwar.htm#The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Ideological
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United States- rights to form political parties, right of
assembly, of speech, and of the press
Soviet Union- No right to form political parties, right of
speech, assembly, and press
No compromise between them because the governments
were different
Economical
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United States- free trade worldwide
Soviet Union- no interaction with other countries in the
trading industry
Russia was afraid that if they traded with the west, they
would’ve became weaker as a country because of
western ways of life
Source: http://www.funfront.net/hist/europe/coldwar.htm#CAUSES OF THE COLD WAR
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Power Opposition
Power was mostly shared between the U.S. and Soviet
Union after WWII
 Each country wanted to take over one another
 This caused the two countries to battle
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Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Source: http://www.funfront.net/hist/europe/coldwar.htm#CAUSES OF THE COLD WAR
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Address presented by
President Harry S. Truman
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Asked for $400 million in
military and economic
support from Turkey and
Greece
March 12, 1947
"It must be the policy of the
United States to support free
peoples who are resisting
attempted subjugation by
armed minorities or by
outside pressures."
- President Harry Truman
President Harry S. Truman signing a document.
http://www.classbrain.com/artteenst/publish/article_112.shtml
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Three months after the
Truman Doctrine was signed
Also known as the European
Recovery Program(ERP)
George C. Marshall came up
with the idea of offering
American financial aid for
European economic recovery
President Truman signed the
first bill for $5,300,000,000
On December 31st of 1951,
the European Recovery
Program ended and had
spent about
$12,500,000,000
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmarshallP.htm
Bay of
Pigs
Invasion
Vietnam
War
Conflicts
Korean
War
Cuban
Missile
Crisis
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April 17, 1961
Led by and paid for by the
United States for Cuban exiles
April 15th, three U.S. planes
flown by Cubans bombed
Cuban air bases
Planned by U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Happened because Dwight D.
Eisenhower broke ties with
Cuba
Against a dictator named
Fidel Castro in Cuba.
It was unsuccessful
http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/bay_of_pigs.html
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http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/
October 1962
The Soviet Union was building
secret missile bases in Cuba
President John F. Kennedy
sent a blockade to Cuba to
prevent any Russian ship bring
more missiles, weapons, etc.
Soviet Union wanted to feel
more powerful than the
United States
Finally after a month, Russian
Premier Nikita S, Khrushchev
agreed to withdraw all Soviet
bombs and missiles
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1957
Vietnam is split into two sections,
Communist and non-Communist
 Ngo Dinh Diem
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 South Vietnam leader
 Became a disgrace and was
unpopular
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Diem continues to recruit more
and more troops as years went on
May 1963
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Buddhist Population rebels against
Diem because they thought he was
getting in the way of their religious
practices
United States joined S. Vietnam
after an attack against the U.S.
destroyers, Maddox and C. Turner
Joy, off the coast of N. Vietnam
The war continued to grow until S.
Vietnam surrenders to North
Vietnam in 1975
http://library.thinkquest.org/22059/conflict/
U.S. Destroyer Maddox
U.S. Destroyer C. Turner Joy
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1945
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The U.S. and Soviet Union
agreed to split up Korea into
two sections, North and South
1950
Tension began to build
because of the efforts put into
reuniting the country failed
 June 25, North Koreans
invaded South Korea, and
South Korea(occupied by
United States) responded
within a few hours
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1951
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http://library.thinkquest.org/22059/conflict/
Peace talks began. On and off.