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1 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 1 Chapter 38 The Bipolar World

2 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 2 Capitalism vs. Communism The “Kitchen Debate” –American National Exhibition, 1959 –Conflict over Captive Nations resolution passed by Congress –Prelude: debate over horse manure vs. pig manure –Public discord over Communism vs. Capitalism

3 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7HqOr Aakco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7HqOr Aakco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6RLC w1OZFw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6RLC w1OZFw&feature=related

4 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 4 Development of the Blocs Winston Churchill: the “Iron Curtain” Division of post-war Germany, especially Berlin –Western powers merge occupation zones (see next slide) –Soviet Blockade of Berlin

5 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 5 Occupied Germany, 1945-1949

6 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 6 Berlin Airlift Soviets upset about the consolidation of zones Blockade all links between Berlin and the western part 11 months of air shipments to Berlin, beginning June 1948 Retribution: British/U.S. embargo on Soviet imports Soviets lift blockade in summer 1949 East Berlin; soviet controlled West Berlin: democratic

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8 8 Construction of the Berlin Wall 1949-1961: 3.5 million East Germans flee to west –Especially younger, highly skilled workers August 1961 construction of wall separating East and West Symbol of the Cold War

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10 10 The Arms Race North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949 Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact), 1955 Nuclear proliferation End of 60s: Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

11 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 11 NATO vs. Warsaw Pact

12 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 12 Confrontation in Korea and Cuba

13 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 13 Division of Korea Characteristic of Cold War: localized conflicts, “proxy wars” Korea divided along 38 th parallel after WW II 1948 two Koreas –Republic of Korea (South, capital Seoul, capitalist) –People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North, capital Pyongyang, communist)

14 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 14 Korean War North Korea invades in 1950, captures Seoul US lands, drives North Koreans back to 38 th parallel, then goes on to capture Pyongyang Chinese invade, push USA back to 38 th 3 million killed by ceasefire in summer 1953 No peace treaty signed, continued tensions

15 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 15 Containment Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO), Asian version of NATO –Australia-France – New Zealand -Thailand – Pakistan -Bangladesh – Philippines-United Kingdom – United States “Domino Theory” moves Eisenhower to consider nuclear weapon use in Korea

16 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 16Cuba Fidel Castro Ruz 1959 revolution Cancels promised elections, expropriates foreign properties, kills or exiles political enemies US imposes trade embargo Soviets step in with massive aid, gain foothold off US shores

17 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 17 The Bay of Pigs Castro declares undying allegiance to Soviet foreign policy, 1960 Kennedy and CIA send 1,500 Cubans into Bay of Pigs to spur revolution American Air support does not appear, force destroyed in 3 days US embarrassment

18 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 18 Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962 Soviets begin assembling missiles in Cuba Kennedy publicly challenges USSR Quarantines CUBA Soviets concede, but US guarantees non- interference with Castro regime US Secretary of State Dean Rusk: “Eyeball to eyeball, they blinked first”

19 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 19 The Cold War, 1949-1962

20 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 20 Internal US Developments Red Scare in USA –Senator Joseph McCarthy (1909-1957) –“domestic containment” Feminism –Women pressured to leave workforce –Betty Friedan, The Feminist Mystique aimed to bring women “into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men"

21 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 21 The Civil Rights Movement Irony of American “freedom,” exploited by USSR propaganda Influence of Gandhi on Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Rise of Black Nationalism Gradual successes: –Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954, against school segregation –Rosa Parks, Montgomery Alabama, 1955

22 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 22 Consumerism Western success with household technologies US Marshall plan for rebuilding Europe: 13 billion in loans, 1948-1952 Europeans owning cars: –1955: 5 million –1963: 44 million

23 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 23 The Space Race Nonviolent aspect of cold war rivalry Initial Soviet successes: –1957: Sputnik, first satellite –1961: Yuri Gagarin orbits space’ US sets up NASA, lands Apollo XI on the moon, July 1969

24 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 24 Challenges to Soviet Hegemony Rebellions quashed: –Yugoslavia expelled from Soviet bloc, 1948 –Hungary, 1956 –Prague Spring, 1968 (socialism with a human face) Brezhnev Doctrine: right to invade any socialist country threatened by elements “hostile to socialism”

25 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 25 The People’s Republic of China Civil war between Communists and Nationalists erupts after defeat of Japan Jiang Jieshi (Chang Kai-shek) forced to retreat to island of Taiwan with Nationalist forces –Takes most of China’s gold reserves Mao Zedong proclaims People’s Republic of China, 1949 –Begins dramatic transformation of Chinese society into Communist mold

26 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 26 Social & Economic Transformations Power concentrated in Communist Party Ex-nationalists executed or sent to reform camps Rapid industrialization under Soviet-style Five-Year Plan, 1955 –Massive land redistribution –Collective farms replace private farming Universal health care, education Dramatic challenges to gender discrimination

27 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 27 Beijing-Moscow Relations Mutual concern over US rehabilitation of Japan Beijing recognizes primacy of USSR as Communist leader –Receives military aid in return –Soviet Union principal trading partner Friction over Moscow’s neutrality in conflict with India over Tibet, claimed by China in 1950 Rift sharpened in 1964 as Khrushchev moves toward peace with US

28 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 28Detente Reduction in hostility between nuclear superpowers Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (1972, 1979) Friction in early 1980s over improvement in relations between US and China –Also, USSR intervention in Afghanistan –Earlier US intervention in Vietnam

29 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 29 The US Defeat in Vietnam US aids noncommunist Vietnam in south after French departure from territory US aid increases, reaches 500,000 troops in 1968 Conflict with northern communists ends in stalemate President Richard Nixon attempts to end war by escalating bombings, extending into Cambodia US eventually leaves in 1973, war continues until south is defeated in 1975

30 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 30 Soviet setbacks in Afghanistan Afghanistan a Islamic nation, nonaligned until 1978, becomes pro-Soviet through a coup Radical non-Islamic reforms provoke backlash

31 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 31 Soviet setbacks in Afghanistan Soviet Union intervenes, fights nine-year battle against Afghan mujahideen (Islamic warriors) –USA CIA supplies them with ground-to-air Stinger missiles 1986 USSR forced to pull out 1994 Taliban takes over after civil war

32 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 32 Cold War Countercultural Protests Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb –Critique of nuclear power policies Massive anti-Vietnam protests Rock and Roll as counterculture Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) –President Nixon orders illegal wiretaps, discovered and forced to resign 1974

33 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 33 End of the Cold War President Ronald Reagan (in office 1981- 1989) deeply opposes USSR –The “evil empire” Promotes massive military spending, beyond Soviet economy to keep up –Strategic Defense Initiative (“star wars”) Forces Soviet Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1931- ) to implement reforms, ultimately brings down the USSR

34 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 34 Revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe Polish trade union Solidarity movement opposes Polish Communist Party rule, forces multiparty elections, 1989 Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania follow The “Velvet Revolution” –Bloodless revolutions East Germany decides to open the Berlin Wall –East and West Germany reunite (1990)

35 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 35 The collapse of the Soviet Union and European communist regimes

36 Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. 36 Collapse of the Soviet Union Reforms under Gorbachev –Economic –Social Perestroika: “restructuring” Glasnost: “openness” Nationalist sentiments, long suppressed, come to the surface Several non-Russian republics secede, August 1991 Attempted hardliner takeover in Moscow fails, Soviet Union collapses by end of the year

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