1. The Cold War heats up
Unit 11 – Topic 2

2. Agenda
Take a handout
Get out your warmup and notes from last class (if you were absent, they are in your folder)
Complete the other side of the warmup on Containment
We’ll start by finishing notes from last class
Then we’ll move on to more Cold War excitement

3. The 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?
Best Years: 26: :57

4. 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 Best Years 28: :45

5. 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
Reading and Questions

6. COMMIE SPIES !!! Alger Hiss Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Best Years: 31:50 – 32:48 and 34:26 – 38:20 – HTS a Com
Red Scare TedEd

7. Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President (1953)
Best Years: 39:40 – Hbomb. D&C
New policy of “massive retaliation” to deter any nuclear strike by the Soviets.
Nuclear arms race leads to MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction
Policy of Brinksmanship