The Cold War Causes amp Effects 19451990 Cold War 19451990 The term was first used in 1947 to explain USSoviet relations Both countries employed ideological military and political instruments against each other wo actually waging a real war ID: 771196
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The Cold War: Causes & Effects 1945-1990
Cold War: 1945-1990 The term was first used in 1947 to explain US-Soviet relations. Both countries employed ideological, military, and political instruments against each other w/o actually waging a real war.
Causes: Delay of Second Front
Causes: End of Lend-Lease Aid Soviet fears about a United Nations dominated by capitalist/democratic countries
Causes: US resentment of late Soviet entry into Pacific war Churchill, FDR, Stalin August 6: Hiroshima August 8: Soviet entry in Pacific August 9: Nagasaki Yalta Conference
Causes: The sharing of Atomic technology 1946 Soviets reject Baruch Plan Atom bomb dome in Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, maintained as a reminder of the power of atomic weapons
Causes: Division of Germany
Causes: Free elections not held in Poland Soviet armies remain
Causes: Ideological competition Capitalism v. Communism
Causes: Personalities of Stalin and American policy makers Joseph Stalin Harry S Truman Dean Acheson
Causes: American global economic expansion Absence of a common enemy
Causes: Vital security interests US must have access to Middle East oil and global markets Soviet Union needs security belt on its frontiers—a buffer zone in Eastern Europe
Effects (United States): Policy of containment —US gives aide to Greece, Turkey (Truman Doctrine) and Western Europe (Marshall Plan) George C. Marshall
Effects (United States): McCarthyism (Second Red Scare)
Effects (United States): Delay of Civil Rights Movement
Effects (united State): The growth of the military-industrial complex “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” D. Eisenhower, 1961
Effects (United States): Reagan’s “evil empire” and the US decision to deploy Pershing II nuclear missiles to Europe ( March 8,1983) Ronald Reagan Mikhail Gorbachev
Effects (International): “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri March 5, 1946 President Harry Truman
Effects (International): Berlin airlift ends Soviet blockade 1948
Effects (International): NATO 1949 Warsaw Pact 1955
Effects (International): American and Soviet arms race Nikita Khrushchev
Effects (International): Korean War (1950-1953)
Effects (International): Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)
Effects (International): Vietnam War (1950-1975)