History 122: Overview (Cold War and Non-Alignment; Communist China; The Third World in the Cold War: Cuba)

-Definition-Yalta Conference/Occupation of Germany-Early Cold War (Recap: Marx/Communism; End of WWII--1945 and division of Europe--Iron Curtain; Containment; One Crisis [hot spot]: the Berlin Blockade 1948, Wall 1961; U.S. Policy: Containment [Truman])-Nuclear Standoff-Modes of Rivalry (Space Race [Gagarin]; Proxy Wars [Ex. Korean Wars]; Propaganda [Olympics])

USSR

-war between U.S. and Soviet Union (Russia)-goes on for quite a while with no frontal confrontation (fear of nuclear war)-starts at the end of WWII [different world views]

A conference that was to come up with the decision on what happens to Germany; Winston Churchill, FDR, and Stalin were the main leaders of the conference.

-[Stalin's speech]-refers to the isolation that the Soviet Union imposed on its satellites in the Eastern Bloc and to the repressive measures of many Eastern Bloc governments. -the expression was coined by Winston Churchill, who was prime minister of Britain in World War II.

-by Berlin (capital)-divided into zones: British, American, Soviet, and French zones.

-'contain'; U.S. will fight for; to prevent spread of communism-a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam.

-Stalin wanted to take over West Berlin, so he prevented food from getting in-international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union (in 1948–1949) to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.

Divided in two (lasted through Cold War):1. West: allies with U.S.??2. East: allies with Soviet

-used 2 bombs and wiped out thousands in seconds-a Japanese city on which the United States dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on August 6, 1945 (after the devastation of the bombing, Hiroshima was largely rebuilt).

-a "race" to see whose technology was better (send object/satellite in space; dog in space; man on moon, etc.)-Soviets: first to send object in space/first man to orbit space (Gagarin)-Soviets: first dog in space-U.S.: first man on moon (Neil Armstrong)

Tried to flee West where there was better standards of living and more freedom.

-built outside the city to prevent people getting into Western Berlin-symbol of the Cold War/division of Berlin.

A series of impromptu exchanges (through interpreters) between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959

Russia and U.S. had numerous of bombs made.