Learning Objective: Agenda: Today I will be able to summarize the effect of the Cold War around the world by comparing world conflicts. Agenda: Learning Objective Lecture Notes: Ch. 17.4-17.5 Cold War Exit Slip Vocabulary

Lecture Notes: Ch. 17.4-17.5 Cold War Cold War Around the World All of the following regions were affected by political tensions between US & USSR: Latin America Middle East Asia Eastern Europe

Cold War Strategies US & USSR attempted to influence Third World nations. Both backed wars of revolution, liberation, or counterrevolutions Used intelligence (CIA & KGB) to spy & operate secret operations.

Cuban Missile Crises July 1962, Nikita Khrushchev built 42 missiles sites in Cuba. Cuba allied with USSR after Fidel Castro & Che Guevara overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista, Jan 1959. Castro established communism US owned sugar plan in taken by Castro & Eisenhower ordered embargo on all trades (cut-off economic/political ties)

USSR set missiles after Bay of Pigs (Cuban-exiles trained by CIA to invade Cuba, April 1961) John F. Kennedy convinced Khrushchev to remove missiles, as long US promises to not attack Cuba.

Nicaragua’s & El Salvador’s Civil War Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza overthrown by the Sandinistas. Sandinista leader, Daniel Ortega took over & supported other rebel groups in El Salvador that were communist. US began to support anti-communist groups & El Salvador gov. fighting communist rebels.

Both Nicaragua’s & El Salvador’s countries were weakened. Still suffer from economic & political instability

Middle East In the Iran & Iraq war of 1980, US secretly supported both sides did not the level of powers of each country to change. Soviet Union aided Iraq. Soviet Union established communism in Afghanistan that later turned into a civil war, Islamist vs. communism

Eastern Europe Satellite countries (nations controlled by USSR) began to revolt against communism, looking to be independent. Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, etc.

Fall of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev established less restrictive policies in USSRR & Soviets allowed to criticize their own gov. Soviets demanded removal Gorbachev & sought Boris Yeltsin to lead.  Gorbachev’s resignation led to end of Soviet Union. Rebellions in satellite countries also led to fall of Soviet Union

Exit Slip Overall, how did the rivalry between Soviet Union (Communism) & the US (Capitalist-Democratic) affect or influenced the rest world? How do some countries continued to be affected by the Cold War. Think about the wars they got involved.

Vocabulary Ch. 17 Vocabulary DUE THURSDAY, MARCH 21ST