Transcript COLD WAR IN THE AMERICAS - University of California, San Diego

COLD WAR IN THE
AMERICAS
Required Reading
Smith, Talons, chs. 4-6
CR #2: Documents on the Cold War
CHRONOLOGY OF COLD WAR
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1941-45
1946
1947
1948
1949
World War II (Europe and Asia)
Churchill speech on “iron curtain”
Truman Doctrine
Berlin airlift
Soviet atomic bomb, Communist victory in
China
• 1950-53 Korean War
• 1965-75 Vietnam War
• 1962
Cuban missile crisis
• 1989
Collapse of Berlin Wall
• 1990-91 Implosion of Soviet Union
THE U.S. AND
THE COLD WAR
Credos: Ideology and Assumptions
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Bipolar conflict
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The need for “containment”
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Geopolitics, dominoes, and the Third World
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Marxism and the developing world
Joseph Stalin, 1878-1953
Allied leaders meeting at Yalta, 1945
Harry S. Truman, 1948
Mao Zedong, 1966
Shaping U.S. Policy
1. Monroe redux: cordoning off the Americas
2. Economic aid: the Alliance for Progress
3. Purging the body politic
4. Containing revolution:
Guatemala (1954)
Bay of Pigs (1961)
Dominican Republic (1965)
Chile (1973)
Grenada (1983)
Central America (1980s)
The Kennedy White House: John Jr. advising his father
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
Reflections
1. Reality vs. ideology
2. Imagining alternatives (?)
3. On the language of “war”