A lecture on the second phase of the Cold War.

1. LEQ
How close did 20th century crises bring the United
States and Soviet Union to war during the 1950s
through 1970s?

2. Crisis and Hotspots
The ColdWar

3. Timeline
▪ 1948- Berlin blockade and airlift
▪ 1949- NATO alliance formed
▪ 1950- KoreanWar begins
▪ 1953- Iranian Revolt
▪ 1956- Hungarian Revolution
▪ 1962- Cuban Missile Crisis
▪ 1965- U.S. entersVietnam conflict

4. Post-Berlin Crisis Alliances
▪ NATO (North AtlanticTreaty Organization)
– U.S., Canada, U.K., France and otherWestern and Central
European nations
▪ Warsaw Pact
– Soviet Union and her satellite states (i.e. Poland, Hungary,
Romania)
▪ SEATO (Southeast AsiaTreaty Organization)
– Like NATO, but created to protect Asian interests from China and
USSR

5. Why were they created?
▪ NATO was established in response to the Berlin blockade
▪ The Warsaw Pact was formed afterWest Germany was admitted to
NATO and allowed to rebuild its armies

7. U.S. Policies Post-Containment
▪ Brinkmanship (Eisenhower)- Push negotiations to the brink of war
to convince the other side to backdown
▪ Flexible Response (JFK)- use a variety of diplomatic and
military methods instead of just nukes
▪ DominoTheory- If one nation falls to communism, it’ll lead
to everyone else switching

9. Soviet Policies
▪ Peaceful Coexistence (Khrushchev)- Capitalism and
Communism can exist without conflict
▪ Brezhnev Doctrine (Brezhnev)-The Soviet Union will
intervene in communist nations if communism is
threatened

10. AP- Quickwrite
▪ Why was the policy of brinkmanship dangerous but
still successful?