Intro to the Cold War
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the cold war
overview
TheU.S Isnowasuperpowerjockeying
forpower w theSovietUnion ally shapedforeignpolicy
containment TheU.Ssoughttocontain
themajorglobaldichotomywas communismthrough avarietyofmeasures
nolongerdemocracy 1fascism
butinsteadcapitalism
communism
concernedbyexpansionest
Communistideology SovietUnion
Thisfightwouldaffectvarious repression
formsofAmericanlifeonboththe
global domesticfrontsfrom1945
199Os afterthefalloftheSovietUnion
the BrandlingConference7955
majorconference ofAfrican Asian
nationsrepresenting54 oftheworld's
pop
promotedcooperation anticolonialism
ledtoNon AlignedMovement
b
TheDominoTheory
Simplystatedthatif
theU.Sfellto
communismthensowould
othercountries
non aligned movement
Postwar decolonizationandthe
emergenceofpowerfulnationalistmovements
n ins caand e d E s d x
bothsidesintheColdWartoseek
alliesamongnewnations manyofwhich
stayed nonaligned
soft harddiplomacy
TOstemthegrowthof
theUSSR itsalliesthe
U.SInstitutedthe
MarshallPlanto
helprebuildEurope
U.S power on the globalstage TrumanDoctrine
TheU.S roleinestablishingCorbacking agencies tosupportanti Corn
topromotetheWest'spoliticaledcapitalistinterests munistgovernments
TheUnitedNations TheUS1A HOA
TheWorldBank tocultivatepositive
TheInternationalMonetaryFund viewsoftheU.S and
TheNorthAtlanticTreatyorganization negativeviewsofthe
ASEAN USSR
ColdWarcompetitionextendedtoLatin
America wheretheU.Ssupportednon
Communistregimesthathadvarying
levelsofcommitmenttodemocracy
b
examples of covertinterventions
the Red TcaretMcCarthyism
ledbySenJosephMcCarthy theU.S
gov'tvigorouslysoughttoidentifypurge
andblacklistsuspectedcommunists
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conflicts