Transcript COLD WAR IN THE AMERICAS

COLD WAR IN THE
AMERICAS
Readings
 Smith, Talons, chs. 5-8
CHRONOLOGY OF COLD WAR
 1941-45
 1946
 1947
 1948
 1949
 1950-53
 1965-75
 1962
 1989
 1990-91
World War II (Europe and Asia)
Churchill speech on “iron curtain”
Truman Doctrine
Berlin airlift
Soviet atomic bomb, Communist victory in China
Korean War
Vietnam War
Cuban missile crisis
Collapse of Berlin Wall
Implosion of Soviet Union
The U.S. and the Cold War
Credos and Rules of the Game
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Bipolar conflict
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Arms race and “mutual assured destruction” (MAD)
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The need for “containment” of Soviet expansion
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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:
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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”