Cold War Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter 3:

1. When you are faced with hard times, Communism looks better than capitalism

• USSR can "materially provide"

2. Soviet "boom"

• eventually the boom would cease to exists
• difference between communism and Marxism-Leninism
• IB: "World War I showed that they had not yet learned how to preserve peace"

3. Restructure.

• US makes little effort in other countries
• US government expands-FDR
• US looking better than communism

4. US distance

• Due to the continental distance, US is less involved in the rest of the world
• Relations against Communism- "I can't take communism not can you, but to cross this brige I would hold hands with the Devil."- Roosevelt
• Stalin believes capitalists will go to war against each other
• IRON CURTAIN

5. Stalin's rule

• Trotsky murdered
• many people killed or arrested
• "a tyrant who had come to power and remained there through terror."

6. Capitalism good!

• US claims Capitalism to be better than communism
• Democracy
• Marshall Plan: jumps start European economies (capitalism/ democratic countries)
• "theory should determine practice."
• Stalin is not a genius

7. Beria

• capitalist/ communist yet a serial murderer and pervert
• West Germany and NATO

8. Khrushchev takes over

• denounces Stalin's crimes
• Poland has a new government: communism with a human face

9. Cult of Personality

• Mao pushes for cult of personality
• Great Leap Forward= failure

10. Berlin Airlift

• 2 ideals living in one city

11. Golden Age

• Capitalist boom!!
• Golden Age: problems with capitalism disappear.

Chapter 4:

Khrushchev made many many mistakes

1. Domino affect

• if one country succumbs to communism, others will easily too

2. Yugoslavia and Nasser

• Tito agrees to no ideal but only milks what he can from both ideals
• Stalin unable to force Yugoslavia into socialism in fear of war with US (ports located in Yugoslavia)
• Many country try to stay neutral the whole time
• Nasser takes perks from both communism and capitalism
• chooses neither

3. Cold War Blackmail

• don't push countries too hard because they become your problem
• Vietnam split in half
• Kennedy and Diem assassinated
• Johnson refuses to go to war due to FEAR

4. Germany will stay divided

• Adenauer believes there is no way for peace in Germany
• Ulbricht does not consult USSR on his decisions
• believes wall should be build- Khrushchev allows the wall to be built

5. France

• becomes arrogant (de Gaulle)
• France has problems with the US- ask US to take stuff out of France
• paralleled to Mao- This will backfire for both of them

6. Wars at home

• people begin to grow upset- US considered imperialist
• Martin Luther King Jr. and Kennedy assassinated
• US in state of anarchy
• Baby Boom- people more revolutionary
• China in Cultural Revolution- Re-education

7. US and China relations

• US and China agree to work with each other
• both countries are rightist