Cold War Brochure
Rylie Petrangeli
Causes Of The Cold War
In addition to the list of reasons why the Cold War began, was the Soviets allowing people of Eastern Europe to determine their own fates by imposing totalitarian rule on territories that weren't lucky enough to fall behind the Iron Curtain. Many people also believe a heavy contributor was the American's who ignored the Soviet's legitimate security concerns, sought to intimidate the world with the atomic bomb, and continued to push to expand their international influence and increase market dominance.
Overall, no one exactly started the Cold war. After World War II, there was tension between the US and USSR which emerged from the conflict as the only two nations on earth that could even hope to propagate their social and political standpoint to a global scale.
Events To Think About
Containment
Iron Curtain
Brinkmanship
The Truman Doctrine
NATO
Marshall Plan
The Berlin Airlift
McCarthyism
The Korean War
The Space Race
The U-2 Incident
U-2 Incident was a huge conflict between the U.S. and Soviets. During this, the Soviets shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet airways. The Soviets captured the pilot and president Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that they had been spying over Soviet airways for years. Eisenhower only served 2 years of his sentence because he was given back to the U.S in exchange for a Soviet spy that was being held in the U.S.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Citations
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https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/center_crypt_history/publications/coldwar.shtml
http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/lockwoodm/Communism/events_of_the_cold_war.htm