Soviet+and+US+Cold+War+Actions+DCD

Drew Davis

__Beginning__ __End__
 * between democracy and communism
 * Potsdam Conference - US wants free elections in eastern Europe but USSR denies and use territories as buffer zones
 * Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill that stated how Europe and Germany was divided into two hostile parts
 * Truman Doctrine - provide money to countries that were threatened by Communist expansion
 * Brezhnev Doctrine - right of USSR to intervene if socialism was threatened in another "socialist state"
 * Marshall Plan - US European Recovery program to rebuild prosperity and stability; included $13 billion; countries though must buy US goods
 * containment policy - Kennan; make sure USSR does not do anything threatining
 * Molotov Plan - USSR plan to rebuild Eastern Europe countries' economies
 * France, GB, and US combine to make West Germany which prospers while USSR has East Germany which does not
 * Berlin Blockade where USSR closed roads between East and West Germany
 * Berlin Airlift - Us send supplies to West Berling by airplane
 * Berlin Wall - wall that separates East and West Germany
 * NATO - Treaty of US and Western Europe
 * Warsaw Pact - USSR and eastern Europe military alliance
 * Bay of Pigs - US fail attempt at overthrowing Castro
 * Cuban Missile Crisis - USSR put nuclear missiles in Cuba but USSR and US solved
 * detente
 * ABM Treaty - US and USSR limit antiballistic missile systems
 * Helsinki Agreements - recognized borders made by end of WWII and thus recognized Soviet sphere of influence
 * INF Treaty - eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons
 * Reagan SDI "star wars"
 * Berlin Wall lifted
 * Germany unified
 * US boycotts Moscow Olympics and USSR boycotts Los Angelos Olympics
 * Citizens grow tired of Communism in Russia
 * end of Communism in Russia

__Small Wars__
 * China falls to Communism
 * Vietnam War - US tries to stop communism from spreading in Vietnam but fails
 * Korean War - US thought domino effect will happen where Asian countries fall to Communism if all of Korea does not stay democratic; US fails and Korea split into North (Communism) and South (democratic) and domino effect doeas not happen
 * USSR puts down revolts in Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia and Hungary
 * Afghanistan war which showed limitations of US and USSR against nationalism

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers."Cold War." //Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt//, ed. by Allida Black, June Hopkins, et. al. (Hyde Park, New York: Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, 2003). http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/cold-war.htm [Accessed April 25, 2011].