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THE COLD WAR HEATS UP
Unit 10 – Topic 2
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A. Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)
Stalin ordered a blockade of West Berlin (inside Soviet-controlled East Germany) -- all supplies were cut off.
Operation Vittles - U.S. and Great Britain flew food and supplies into West Berlin to break the blockade for 11 months!
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B. USSR exploded a nuclear device (1949)
US is not the only one with the bomb New threat of a nuclear war that
would destroy both countries
How do you think the USSR built a bomb so quickly?
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Alger Hiss
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C. China became Communist (1949)
Civil war between Mao Zedong (Communist) and Chiang Kai-Shek (capitalists/nationalists). The capitalist Chinese flee to Taiwan
Mao’s Communist takeover increases American fears of communist domination of the world but …
China and the Soviet Union became rivals, not allies. In the 1970's, Pres. Nixon’s diplomatic mission to
Beijing exploited this division of the major communist powers
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D. The Korean War
North Korea (Communist) invaded South Korea (Capitalist) (1950) Why did the US get involved? – to
contain communism American troops (in a United
Nations force) counterattacked deep into North Korea
Chinese troops entered on the side of North Korea
Could have become World War III Eventually ended with a stalemate
and a divided N/S Korea
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E. Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President (1953)
New policy of “massive retaliation” to deter any nuclear strike by the Soviets.
Nuclear arms race leads to MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction