■Essential Question: ■Can a ideological war be more dangerous than a physical war?

■DO NOW: Have you ever wanted to hit someone but you knew it would cause so much chaos that you chose not to? Learning Targets and Intentions of the Lesson I Want Students to: 1. KNOW how the different ideologies of the USSR, Communism and the USA’s Capitalism led to the Cold War. 2. UNDERSTAND Explain the significance of covert actions during the Cold War to include: Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and how it is relevant to the battle for the People of the Third World. 3. Complete the To the Brink – and Beyond organizer to include the Cold War Vocabulary (SKILL). Summary ■Post War Europe ■The Cold War ■The Arms Race ■The Space Race ■Bay of Pigs ■Cuban Missile Crisis Truman Doctrine [1947]

1. Civil War in Greece. 2. USSR Wants Dardanelles from Turkey

3. U. S. to support all who want to be free 4. The U.S. gave Greece & Turkey $400 million in aid. Marshall Plan [1948] 1. “European Recovery Program.” 2. Secretary of State, George Marshall

3. The U. S. should provide aid to all European nations that need it. 4. $12.5 billion of US aid to Western Europe extended to Eastern Europe & USSR, [but this was rejected]. A Clash of Ideologies

■ The Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) believes it should assume their rightful place; along side the United States (U.S.A.) as a world superpower. ■ So, what begins is a battle of wills, a battle for world superiority. ■ Is the U.S.S.R. ready to compete with “Mighty America?” The “Iron Curtain”

From Stettin in the Balkans, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lies the ancient capitals of Central and Eastern Europe. -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1946 The Cold War The Ideological Struggle

Soviet & US & the Eastern Bloc Western Nations Democracies [“Iron Curtain”]

GOAL  spread world- GOAL  “Containment” wide Communism of Communism & the eventual collapse of the METHODOLOGIES: Communist world. [George Kennan]  Espionage [KGB vs. CIA]  Arms Race [nuclear escalation]  Ideological Competition for the minds and hearts of Third World peoples [Communist govt. & command economy vs. democratic govt. & capitalist economy]  “proxy wars”  Bi-Polarization of Europe [NATO vs. Warsaw Pact] From 1945 to 1991, the USA & USSR used a variety of strategies to win the Cold War In the early years of the Cold War (1945-1949), the USA used a containment policy to successfully stop the spread of communism in Europe

Marshall Plan BerlinNATO Airlift

Truman Doctrine When communism spread to China in 1949, the USA feared the “domino theory” & became more aggressive in its efforts to stop communism The USA went to war in Korea to defend South Korea from communism The Soviet Union supplied weapons to the communists in North Korea during the war The type of indirect fight between the USA & USSR is called a “proxy war” From 1949 to 1970, the Cold War escalated as a result of a nuclear arms race, space race, & espionage The Arms Race The U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons ended in 1949 when the USSR successfully tested an atomic bomb

The Soviet development of the atomic bomb led to a nuclear arms race between the USA & USSR In 1952, the USA tested the The Soviet Union first hydrogen bomb which responded by is 1,000 times more powerful detonating its own than the atomic bomb hydrogen bomb in 1953 By 1959, both the USA & USSR developed rockets called intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could deliver nuclear warheads to distant targets U.S.Soviet Polaris Transporter Submarine Erector Launcher (TEL)

U.S. Titan ICMB from the 1960s Soviet ICMBs from 1960-1975 In the 1950s, U.S. President Eisenhower escalated the Cold War by using brinkmanship: threatening to use nuclear weapons & willingness to go to the brink of war If the USSR attacked a NATO member, the U.S. would use massive retaliation: attack every major Soviet city & military target As a result, the USA & USSR began stockpiling nuclear weapons & building up their militaries With the USA & USSR in possession of large nuclear stockpiles, each side could destroy each other: this was known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Throughout the Cold War, the USA & USSR looked for ways to gain first strike capability The Space Race In 1957, the USSR Sputnik shocked Americans used its first ICBM to who feared the U.S. had launch Sputnik, the fallen behind the USSR in first satellite into space science & technology

As a result of Sputnik, the Cold War escalated into a space race to show American & Soviet dominance In 1958, the USA created National Aeronautics & The USSR repeatedly Space Administration (NASA) beat the USA in space to catch up to the USSR… by launching the first man into orbit & …U.S. schools promoted orbiting the moon math, science, & technology

NASA’s original seven NASA Mercury astronauts In 1962, President John Kennedy committed the USA to beating the Soviet Union in the race to the moon In 1969, Apollo 11 landed U.S. astronauts on the moon The Battle for Control of the Third World During the Cold War, the USA & USSR created intelligence agencies, the CIA and KGB, in order to spy and carry out covert operations The USA & USSR used spies to gather intelligence

U.S. & Soviet spy planesConvicted gathered spies Juliusinformation & Ethel Rosenberg also The ColdThe War CIA escalated overthrew as the the governments threat of communism of spreadIran & into Guatemala the Middle and intervenedEast, Africa, in & Egypt, Latin Bolivia,America Chile, El Salvador, and Cuba to stop communism Bay of Pigs Debacle (1961) Overview of Kennedy, the Cold War & Cuba The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States & Soviet Union to a near nuclear war in 1962 Critical Thinking Question A Critical Thinking Question B