• The Cold War – What is it

• Cold War Skirmishes – Ways they tried to compete – Bunch of small wars

• Africa – Decolonization

• Latin America• Pakistan vs India • Japan

– Rebuilding and going high tech• China

– Different version of Communism • The Middle East

– OPEC and the Creation of Israel

Chapter 31

The Cold War• The United Nations

– Mostly Ignored

• NATO– International Monetary Fund – World Bank– Marshal Plan – Europe increased social programs – Truman Doctrine

• Soviet Union and Satellites – Warsaw Pact

Cold War Skirmishes • Berlin Blockade

– Berlin Airlift – Berlin Wall

• Korean War– 38th Parallel

• Vietnam – Fell to Communists Arms Race

• ICBM’s • Thermonuclear Warheads • Cuban Missile Crisis • Space Race

Africa• Arbitrarily drawn borders• Overdependence on export

crops• Lack of national road and

railroad networks (infrastructure) • Overpopulation• Nationalist movements • Racism- Southern areas • Algeria

Latin America• Economic Freedom • Mexico

– Economic stratification and Revolution• Guatemala

– US sponsored Coup • Cuba

– Batista Regime– 1959 Fidel Castro– US blockade- turned to USSR– Bay of Pigs

• Pakistan – Military dictatorship

• India – Struggled with poverty and Democracy

• Japan – Stayed out of cold war – Focused on economic growth

• China – Received help from USSR until 1956– Mao– Great Leap Forward– Cultural Revolution

• The Middle East– Arab countries gained Independence

– United Nation portioned Palestine 1948• Israel• 6 Day War

– Gained Land

• Palestine Liberation Organization– Yasir Arafat– Guerilla Warfare-Terrorism

– Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)