birth of the cold war era. u.s. and western europe vs. the soviet union ideological and strategic...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA
![Page 2: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union
Ideological and strategic influence around the world
Primarily fought in emerging Third World nations
Both are nuclear powers
BRIEF SUMMARY
![Page 3: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Conflicting political and economic views
Differing goals post-WWII
Bipolarity: World’s two superpowers can only threaten each other
WHY THE COLD WAR?
![Page 4: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Global capitalism
Communism blocks freedom
“totalitarian regimes” vs. “free peoples”
Intervention worldwide is needed
AMERICAN IDEOLOGY IN THE COLD WAR ERA
![Page 5: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
AMERICAN PROPAGANDA
![Page 6: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
![Page 7: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Marxism - Leninism
Spread Communism
“capitalist encirclement”
U.S. is attempting to achieve “global dominance”
Industrialization through centralized economy and collectivization
SOVIET IDEOLOGY DURING THE COLD WAR
![Page 8: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
SOVIETPROPAGANDA
![Page 9: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
THE UNITED NATIONS
![Page 10: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
“To maintain international peace and security”
“To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace”
Source: http: / /www.un.org/en/documents/charter /chapter1.shtml
UN’S MISSION
![Page 11: BIRTH OF THE COLD WAR ERA. U.S. and western Europe vs. The Soviet Union Ideological and strategic influence around the world Primarily fought in](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062321/56649dc65503460f94aba511/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
U.S., the Soviet Union, China, France and Britain as members of the UN Security Council
Maintain peace, assess threats to peace, vote for actions
U.S. and Soviet Union block each other's actions
U.N. is the first casualty of the cold war
AN INEFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION