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Cold War - Global Conflict - Coggle Diagram
Cold War - Global Conflict
US
Feared
USSR would destroy capitalist and democratic institutions
Capitalist Economic System
Marshall Plan
Spent lost of $ to rebuild western Europe
Lots of Influence
Containment
Policy to Stop Spread of Communism
Worried about "Domino Effect"
If one country fell to communism, the next would fall, and so, on
USSR
Iron Curtain
Soviet's sphere of influence
Where Red Army held off Nazis WWII
Eastern Europe
Buffer btw Western Europe & USSR
Feared
US Rebuilding Efforts in Europe & Japan
US trying to expand markets
US wanted to use power to dominate Europe
Destroy Soviet system
Nuclear Weapons Race
1st time destruction of human species = possible
MAD
Mutually Assured Destruction
Fall of Soviet Union
Gorbachev
Perestroika
Allowed contested political elections
More autonomy
Glasnost
More Info from the West
Less censorship
Led to criticism
Soviet system couldn't keep up with econ growth of West
People realized how much poorer 2nd World was compared to 1st World
Collapsed 1990
Hot Wars
Both sides engaged in conflicts to prevent the other from influence
US
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Vietnam
Guatemala
Korea
Iran
Chile
Afghanistan
USSR
Vietnam
Hungary
Korea
Czechoslovakia
Afghanistan
Worlds
2nd World
Soviet Satellites - Warsaw Pact
China
USSR
Cuba
1st World
Western Europe
Countries with capitalism & democratic gov'ts
US
3rd World
Everyone else
Neither Soviets nor Americans wanted them to be neutral