The Cold War Abroad
The Early Cold War
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
ReadingGeorge Kennan’s “Long Telegram”
The “Iron Curtain”
The Truman Doctrine https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wmQD_W8Pcxg
“It must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”
The Marshall Plan
The Berlin Airlift June 1948 to May 1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.”
Communist Advances The Soviet Union’s first atomic test, 1949
The Chinese Communist Revolution, 1949
Decolonization
NSC-68
United States National Security Council, April 1950
Recommended a massive U.S. military buildup
Placed a priority on the “containment” of Communism
Opposition: (1) isolationists; (2) anti-Communists favoring rollback; (3) strategists favoring non-military efforts
Changed U.S. Geography
The Korean War
VietnamA Cold War Example
ReadingVietnamese Declaration of Independence
The Vietnam War: The Setup
Resistance to foreign occupation
Ho Chi Minh
Battle of Dienbienphu, 1954
Geneva Convention, division of Vietnam in two
South Vietnam rejects national elections
The Diem regime
The Diem Regime
John F. Kennedy, 1963 “In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the
ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Vietnam, against the Communists.”
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Served as the justification for full-scale US involvement.
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965 “The point I want to make is why---oh, why---oh, why
don't people concern themselves sometimes with a country that is trying to maintain her independence from aggression, that is being invaded, that is trying not to be swallowed up, that is trying not to have an ideology imposed upon her?”
The My Lai Massacre
Napalm
The Tet Offensive
Vietnam War
Protests
CubaCould the Cold War Become Hot?
ReadingThe Second Declaration of Havana
Bay of Pigs
April 1961
The CIA armed and trained Cuban dissidents
The operation was a complete failure
The incident justified Cuban fears
Operation Mongoose
The Cuban Missile Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZAwvCKoSi8
October 1962
The Nuclear Paradox How do you use nuclear weapons to threaten without
risking nuclear war?
Public OpinionCreating a Cold War Consensus
Suppressing Dissent Federal employees
Hollywood
Senator Joseph McCarthy