1. Cold-War Conflicts And Containment Policy
THE COLD WAR HEATS UP
Cold-War Conflicts
And Containment Policy

2. Cold War Conflicts
Objective: Analyze several instances of communist expansion and the United States’ attempts at containment. Question: Where are these conflicts happening and why is that significant to the “Cold War”?

3. US and USSR are trying to each control as many countries as possible!!!
Stalin and the USSR
United States

4. Cold War standoff!!! NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Warsaw Pact (Stalin and his communist buddies)

5. Early Examples of Containment
Truman Doctrine:
Aid to Greece and Turkey to fight communism
Berlin Airlift
Marshall Plan:
Aid to rebuild Europe…
And to discourage countries from communism

6. Mao Zedong Communism Spreads
Mao Zedong leads a communist revolution in China. (1946)
The United States sends economic and military aid to the Chinese Nationalists but the Chinese communists win anyway.
Mao Zedong

7. Domino Theory
If one country in Southeast Asia falls to communism then all of them will.

8. Korean War Communism Spreads Containment
North Korea becomes communist and invades South Korea.
The two sides are separated by the 38th parallel.
South Korea is backed by the United Nations and the United States.
United States joins the United Nations to protect South Korea.
The war ends in a stalemate and neither side gains any ground.

9. They were separated by the 38th parallel, an imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north latitude.
38th Parallel

10. Korea is the first time we join
This cartoon by the British cartoonist David Low, from the Daily Herald (30 Jun 1950), shows Truman and the United Nations rushing to Korea’s aid.
Korea is the first time we join
a military effort with an international
peace keeping organization.

11. Bay of Pigs Communism Spreads Containment
Fidel Castro leads a communist revolution in Cuba in 1959.
Cuba is only 90 miles from the U.S. coast.
Castro exiles people that don’t agree with him(ex-patriots) and they flee to America.
Kennedy assembles a secret mission to try and overthrow the government of Cuba and kill Castro.
We train Cuban ex-patriots and send them to Cuba.
They failed miserably and Cuba remained communist.

12. Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuba

13. President John F. Kennedy
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban leader
President John F. Kennedy
Fidel Castro

14. Video
Kennedy’s address on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

15. Cuban Missile Crisis Communism Spreads Containment
The Soviet Union sets up missile sites in Cuba.
They have intercontinental ballistic missiles that can easily reach major cities in the United States.
These missiles can carry nuclear bombs.
American U2 spy planes photograph the missile sites.
Kennedy and Kruschev negotiate about the missiles in Cuba.
Finally we place a naval blockade around Cuba and the Soviets agree to remove their missiles.

16. Cuban Missile Crisis

17. Soviet Intermediate Range Nuclear Ballistic Missile

18. Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Kruschev

19. Blockade of Cuba
American ships

20. Vietnam War Communism Spreads Containment
North Vietnam is led by communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
North Vietnam invades South Vietnam which is non-communist.
The United States commits a massive amount of troops to try and keep Communism out of South Vietnam.
Eventually, after many lives were lost, the United States backs out of the war and South Vietnam becomes communist.

21. Vietnam War
Just like Korea the country is divided between Communists in the North and non-communists in the South.

22. Cold War Conflicts Communism Spreads Containment Policy
Communist Revolution in China.
Castro becomes communist leader of Cuba.
North Korea (Communist) invades South Korea.
Soviets put Missiles in Cuba.
North Vietnam (Communist) invades South Vietnam.
Truman sends aid to help fight the Communists. (fail)
Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro. (fail)
U.S. joins United Nations peacekeeping effort. (success)
Kennedy uses a blockade.(success)
U.S. commits troops to South Vietnam to fight the communists. (fail)