4.2 A divided world

Cold War
A divided world
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Cold War
A divided world

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Result WOII
* Allied leaders didn't trust each other
* Afraid the other would expand their power
* US and Soviet Union

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Iron Curtain
* Churchill 
* Iron Curtain -> Boundry between 
* Democratic/capitalist West  <-> Communist East

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West and East Block grew apart in 3 stages

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1. Dividing of Germany
* Reaction Stalin: Berlin Blockade
- All supply routes closed to West Berlin
* US Airlift
* Stalin cancelled blockade

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2. Military alliances
* 1949 Western countries NATO
- Support each other if one was attacked
* 1955 East Block responded: Warsaw Pact
- Prevent enemy attacks
- Difference: intervene if one country wanted to abolish

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3. Closed gap in the Iron Curtain
* 1961
* People fled through Berlin to West Germany
* Dissatisfied with communism
* Freedom and welfare in West
* Berlin Wall

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Berlin Wall
Symbol of the Cold War

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Berlin Wall 

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Rising tension outside Europe
* Communism arose in China
* Afraid other area's in Asia would follow
* Domino theory

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Korean War
* Two Koreas arose
* North Korea -> communist
* South Korea -> capitalist
* North attacked south in 1950
* International army led by US helped South
* China helped North
* 1953 truce 

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Korea war (1950-1953)
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Assignments
Make the assignments of 4.1 and 4.2

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Cold War
A divided world

Part 2

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Vietman War
* North -> Communist
* South -> Capitalist
* US protected South Vietnam
* China and SU protected the North
* 1973 US was defeated

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Three reasons why the US was defeated

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1. Guerrilla warfare
* Light weapons
* Small and unexpected attacks

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2. Some South Vietnamese people turned againt the US

* South Vietnamese regime -> Corrupt
* Backed by the US

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3. Less support in the West
* War reported daily on the television
* Schoked
* Didn't see a communist threat
* Violent repression of a nation

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Reputation of the US
* Damaged
* Not so powerfull
* Seen as the bad guys

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Cold War
* No escalation in a World War
* Nuclear weapons
* Arms race
* Mutual detterrence -> mutual distruction
* Cuba Crisis

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Cuba Crisis
* Fidel Castro -> control of Cuba
* Americans wanted to force him out
* Soviet Union helped Castro.  -> nuclear weapons on Cuba
* Threat nuclear war

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Assignments
Make the assignments of 4.1 and 4.2

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