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Cold War Ashley, Nadia and Salome (Leaders and Nations (Americas (Truman…

- - - - Fear of aggression
        
        As the USSR and the allies defeated the Nazis the countries in Eastern Europe were liberated and the Soviets wanted to use those countriesas a bufferzone and promised free elections
      - Economic benefits
        
        The USSR wanted reparations however the allies and the US feared the Same fate as WWII so they instead took over territories and split it up all for their economic benefits.
      - Ideology difference
        
        The US was a capitalist nation an has a free and open market that is barely controlled by the state. The US promotes democracy and free elections. The US feared the spread of Communism.
        
        The USSR is communist and believes in total equality both economically and socially. However they did not want their satellite states to be democratic of capitalist.
      - Roles of the US vs the USSR
        
        The US had been the liberator in Western Europe and the USSR had helped liberate countries in Eastern Europe and helped fight Japan until the atomic bombs were dropped.
  - - - Sino-Soviet and Sino-U.S. relations(how China is included in this conflict)
        
        The US had used a triangle of isolation to have diplomacy relations with China to cut of their relations with the USSR ultimately cutting off the USSR from the world and having them isolated
      - Containment
        
        It was a policy where the US had feared the spread of communism so much that they were trying to contain it where it exists instead of the Roll back policy that had urged to free the satellite nations.
      - Peaceful Co-existence
        
        President Eisenhower was willing to negotiate peace and coexistence of two opposite ideologies and that the two countries wouldn't attack each other.
- - - - The 1st Berlin Crisis also known as, The Berlin blockade, and The Berlin Airlift occurred on June 24,1948 and ended on May 12, 1949. This event is one of the first major international crisis within the cold war.The 1st Berlin crisis occurred because the Soviet Union blocked all railroads, roads and canals that were under Western control. Many individuals were starving due to everything being blocked. The United States turned to flying in supplies for the people within the blockaded areas.
    - - The second Berlin Crisis occurred in 1958-1961. This was due to the fact that many people that lived within Eastern Europe fled to Berlin in order to get to Western Europe because it was prosperous. This caused the Soviet Union to put up a wall of barbed wire at first then it was upgraded to a concrete wall.
- - - - adopted a policy of containment toward Soviet expansion and the spread of communism
      - Truman Doctrine
    - - proposed an "open skies" policy that suggested the US and the SU would conduct air inspections of each other's military programs
    - - Always cautious due to the Bay of Pigs fiasco
      - Not sure what to do about the cuban missile crisis
        
        blockade
        
        Stop the transportation of weapons to Cuba without aggression.
        
        invasion
        
        CIA
        
        Like the Bay of Pigs the US would once again plan to invade Cuba with its superior military.
        
        diplomacy
        
        The US would try to peacefully negotiate with Cuba possibly removing the Jupiter missiles from Turkey.
    - - Cuban Missile Crisis: when the USSR sent mid range missiles to Cuba. 90 miles from the US shore.
      - Nationalized all Cuban businesses and drove out US influence
  - - - Mao had been the communist leader with influence n Asia including the Korean War.
  - - - Iron Curtain: the separation of East to West Europe as the satellite nations are isolated.
      - satellite states like Hungary and Poland were under the USSR
      - Poland and Hungary situation
    - - Berlin crisis and his ultimatum.
      - Berlin Wall was decided during his time. The wall was built on August of 1963.