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The Cold war
- Origins
- tensions
- mistrust
- different political views
- mistrust
- 'big 3' meetings
- Yalta- Feb 1945
- Potsdam- July 1945
- UK,
USSR,
USA
- Yalta- Feb 1945
- UK and USA
didn't like
USSR
- 'The iron curtain'
- 'The iron curtain'
- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin (Yalta)---
Truman, Attlee, Stalin (Potsdam)
- Starts in 1948
- Berlin airlift Jun 1948
- USSR taking over countries
- Germany and
Berlin split into
4 sections
- tensions
- between USSR
(Communism)
and USA
(Capitalism)
- Developments
- Britain splits off from war
- US and USSR have
arms race with
nuclear weapons
- America get worried
- Truman Doctrine-
give money to
countries
threatened by
communism
- Marshall plan- put
truman doctrine
into action,
stopping poverty
and communism
- Truman Doctrine-
give money to
countries
threatened by
communism
- NATO- north atlantic treaty
organisation, all countries
would back eachother up if
attacked
- Warsaw pact- like NATO
but for communists
- Khrushchev takes over
after Stalin dies (1953)
and he wants a
peaceful co existance
so it eases tensions
- Britain splits off from war
- Cuban missile crisis
- USSR place
missiles in
cuba which
reach US
- America spot
missiles 14
- Bay of pigs, 1961,
tried to attack cuba,
fail
- in Cuba, Castro
overthrew Batista to
make Cuba
communist
- Blockade for Cuba starts
24th, announced 20th
- October 1962
- USSR send US letter
admitting missiles but
saying there could be a
compromise
- Khrushchev says if Turkey
missiles go, so do Cuba ones
- Kennedy agrees
- Kennedy agrees
- its seen as a US victory
- USSR place
missiles in
cuba which
reach US
- Vietnam
- before WW2 France ruled
- During WW2 Japan ruled
- France tried to regain it, there was a
war 1946-1954, country split in two
- France tried to regain it, there was a
war 1946-1954, country split in two
- During WW2 Japan ruled
- South- Capitalist, US supported it,
led by Ngo Dinh Diem a brutal
dictator, Vietcong rebelled in south
- North, Communist, USSR supported it,
led by Ho Chi Minh, Viet minh
- 8 Mar 1965 US
troops entered
- ended in 1975
- Domino effect
- Gulf of Tonkin, North vietnam
shiop fired torpedo at US ship-
gave excuse for US to enter
vietnam
- Vietnamese tactics-
guerilla warfare, mass
troops, didnt give in,
'hands on'
- US tactics- new
equipment, Bombing
(rolling thunder), Search
and destroy
- US left because: Bad US army
tactics, Vietnam tactics, US public
opinion, Hearts and minds in
vietnam
- US left vietnam by: Vietnamesation
(pull out, increase south strength),
start peace talks (Henry kissinger and
Le Duc Tho, 1973 peace agreed)
- Tet offensive- north
vietnam attack on south
- My Lai massacre- US
kill civilians by 'mistake'
- before WW2 France ruled
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