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Containment Mutually Assured Destruction Korean War 19501953 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 Afghanistan 19791989 Mikhail Gorbachev The Kitchen Debates 1959 The First Phase 19471953 George Kennans Long Telegram and the policy of containment. What was Africa’s role in the Cold War? . How . did American attitudes toward Africa change in the Cold War period? . Neo-colonialism. It can be argued many African nations were pawns on the cold war chessboard – victims of neo-colonialism by US, USSR and PRC. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the United States. These fears came to define–and, in some cases, corrode–the era’s . By:. Matthew Wilson. Dakota Berger . And Dummy. Culture in the cold war. The Cold War was reflected in culture through music, movies, books, television and other media. . The United States had a very specific Stereotype they wanted to Employ when making their films in the Cold War, that Stereotype was to depict the Soviet Union to be the Villains in just about every film that was made with them in the plot. . “Is a new cold war on the horizon?”. CNBC 8/28/8. Day 2: The Cold War. Today’s Goals:. Understand the Georgia Conflict. See how it relates to the Cold War. Understand what the Cold War can tell us about. W - . 5. Lessons and Legacies. Vietnam. Détente. Economic shocks. The end of the Cold war. Vietnam: A profound FP setback. Robert McNamara, . In retrospect. The power of nationalism. Ignorance of history, culture and politics. Mikhail . Gorbachev rises . to power in . 1985. Meetings between Gorbachev and Reagan. The . fall of the Berlin Wall in . 1989. Ger. m. any's reunification. The . collapse of the Soviet . Union . in 1991 . The Origins of the Cold War. The Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945, Crimean coast) is often considered the starting point of Cold War tensions between the US and the Soviet Union. ‘Big Three’ – Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin were present. . L/O – To identify the key features and turning points of the Cold War and understand the nature of the conflict. What was the Cold War?. Cold War. . = . a period of extreme tension between states stopping just short of war.. L/O: To revise the causes of the Cold War in order to write a balanced essay.. THE USA. THE USSR. BOTH SIDES. NO ONE IT WAS INEVITABLE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpYCplyBknI. . EVENT. WHAT HAPPENED?. Prosperity at Home, Cold War Abroad. The U.S. had tremendous prosperity in the 1950s – with an increase in national income each year.. But to counter the spread of Soviet influence, the U.S. also maintained a peacetime draft (Universal Military Training), and a large peacetime army, navy, and air force.. Period after WWII is referred to as the Cold War. : the tense relationship between capitalism (mainly the USA) and communism (Soviet Union). Postwar (after WWII) discussions were . postponed as long as possible. A.P. U.S. History. Mr. Krueger. Filling in the Gaps…. Flexible Response. Berlin Wall. Containment in S.E. Asia. Bay of Pigs. Cuban Missile Crisis. War on Poverty. Great Society. Medicare. Voting Rights Act 1965. By end of WWII, alliance between G.B., U.S., and U.S.S.R. disintegrating. Cold war = competition for global influence between democracy/capitalism and communism. Led to: alliances (-> “iron curtain”), client states, arms race, diplomatic . SEO is anything but a “one size fits all” strategy. What works for one website may not work for another. And what worked for you in the past may not yield the same results in the future.