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1 Communism & the Cold War Readings

2 CLASSWORK Timeline of the Cold War

3 The Berlin Blockade: The First Major Battle of the Cold War The Berlin Blockade was the first major crisis of the Cold War, setting up the stage for the decades of tensions that were to follow. In 1948, Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, blocked all rail and road access to Berlin. This sudden and unexpected move led to a major U.S. operation known as the Berlin Airlift, in which supplies were flown into the city for almost a year. Background At the end of World War II, defeated Germany was divided into four zones, controlled separately by the U.S., France, Britain and the Soviet Union. Although Berlin lay deep within the Soviet zone, it too was divided into four sections. While the Western countries (France, Britain and the U.S.) hoped Germany would soon be united as a democratic country, the Soviet Union hoped that Germany would follow its own example and become communist. Causes of the Berlin Blockade Stalin was renowned for his paranoia. He had submitted his own people to terrible purges in order to cleanse the Soviet Union of opposition. It is therefore unsurprising that he felt threatened by Western presence in the heart of the Soviet zone. In 1948 the three non-russian zones united to form one economic unit. Stalin did not like the idea of a strong Germany, preferring it to remain divided as Russia had been invaded by Germany in the past. In response to the joining of the three non-russian zones, Stalin blocked all rail and road access to the Berlin. Consequences of the Berlin Blockade The Western half of Berlin contained around two and a quarter million people who had only six week's worth of food. West Berlin, despite its strategic liability because of the surrounding Soviet zone, had become a symbol of democratic resistance to the expansion of communism. The U.S. saw the blockade as a test of their commitment and, unwilling to risk military confrontation with the Soviet Union, they took the lead in the major airlifting operation. The Berlin Airlift According to Flying Officer Frank Stillwell who participated in the airlift, "It was the greatest ever humanitarian undertaking, providing the essential supplies to 2.2 million Berlin inhabitants. If we had failed, the Russians would have taken over Berlin completely, with the spread of communism westward." The airlift began on July 1 under the leadership of General Curtis LeMay. By the end of the blockade, the airlift (codenamed "Operation Vittles") was bringing in an average of 5,000 tons of supplies a day. The Soviets ended the blockade on May 12, 1949, but the Cold War had just begun and would last for more than 40 more years. Byrnes, Rebecca. "The Berlin Blockade: The First Major Battle of the Cold War." Suite101.com 4 Jul. 2008: Web. 3 Jan < CLASSWORK

4 The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the most dangerous episode of the Cold War. The Cold War was a political struggle between the world's two great superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War lasted from the end of World War II until the early 1990's. No battles were actually fought. But the Cuban missile crisis for the first time raised the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the spring of 1962, Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev ordered nuclear missiles to be installed on the Caribbean island of Cuba, a mere 90 miles from the United States. He had received permission to do this from the Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The military buildup took place during the summer and autumn of The Cuban missile crisis started on October 16, 1962, when U.S. president John F. Kennedy was informed that American intelligence had detected the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. The crisis lasted 13 days. It consisted of two periods. During the first period, from October 16 to 22, President Kennedy and his advisers discussed how to react to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba without informing the American public or other nations of the situation. The president's advisers made a number of recommendations. These included a military attack on the missile sites. But Kennedy chose instead to establish a naval blockade around Cuba. This would halt any further deliveries of Soviet missiles to the island. On October 22 in a televised speech, the president informed the American public about the missiles and his decision. During the second phase of the crisis, from October 22 to 28, millions of people throughout the world feared that a nuclear war between the two superpowers was inescapable. On October 24 the American blockade went into effect. Soviet ships approached the line of blockade. For a while, a U.S.-Soviet clash on the seas seemed likely. Much to Kennedy's relief, however, the Soviet ships stopped before crossing the line of blockade. They instead headed back toward the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Kennedy and Khrushchev used diplomacy to end the crisis. Through an exchange of letters between the two men, a settlement was reached. The Soviet leader agreed to remove the nuclear weapons from Cuba. Meanwhile, Kennedy publicly pledged that the United States would not invade the island. Privately, Kennedy also pledged in due course to remove American missiles stationed in Turkey near the Soviet border. But this fact was not made known to the public. The Cuban missile crisis changed Soviet-American relations. Both Kennedy and Khrushchev had been sobered by the events of October They then moved to reduce tensions between the superpowers and to minimize the possibility of another dangerous confrontation. In 1963, Kennedy called for a more tolerant attitude toward the Soviet Union. Shortly afterward, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty. It was designed to limit further nuclear testing. White, Mark J. "Cuban Missile Crisis." The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online. 3 Jan < CLASSWORK

5 Sputnik On Oct. 4, 1957, a mysterious beeping sound interrupted radio and television broadcasts around the world. The eerie noise sparked bewilderment and fear-as well as angry calls to local repairmen. The beeping was a coded message from the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Launched by what was then the Soviet Union, Sputnik orbited Earth every 96 minutes. Sputnik did more than just transmit information. It set off an intense competition between the United States and the Soviet Union that came to be known as the "space race." The two countries were already mired in the Cold War ( ), a nonmilitary struggle for power, and U.S. and Soviet scientists had been rushing to become the first country to conquer space. When Sputnik started its rounds, the United States was still months away from launching a satellite. The Soviets' success took Americans by surprise. Many began to question a long-held assumption: that U.S. technology was the best in the world. Some feared that if the Soviets could put a satellite in space, they could easily land missiles on U.S. soil. Less than a month later, the Soviets launched Sputnik 2, with a dog named Laika onboard. Called "Muttnik" by journalists, Laika was the first animal in space. Americans struggled to catch up. In December 1957, the first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed. Nicknamed "Dudnik" by reporters, the satellite rose 3 feet before falling to the ground. A month later, the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, entered Earth's orbit. The Soviets outpaced the Americans again in 1961, sending the first human, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, into orbit. A few months later, Alan B. Shepard became the first American in space. The United States finally trumped the Soviets' space achievements in July 1969, when American astronauts became the first people to land on the moon. CLASSWORK NASA Sputnik 2 flew with a canine crew. Laika, later dubbed 'Muttnik,' was the first animal in space.

6 The Cold War The Cold War dominated political life in the second half of the 20th century. It began in 1945, as World War II was ending. It continued through several phases until it was formally declared over in The Nature of the Cold War The Cold War, in one sense, was a power struggle between the two nuclear military giants of the age, the United States and the Soviet Union. But on a more basic level, the Cold War was a contest between two opposing ways of life. One was democratic capitalism, whose leading representatives were the United States and the nations of Western Europe. The other was totalitarian Communism, the system of the Soviet Union and its "satellite" nations in Eastern Europe. Between 1945 and 1990, despite constant tensions and an alarming buildup of nuclear weapons on both sides, the United States and the Soviet Union officially remained at peace. This is the reason it was called a "cold" war. Yet it was hardly a peaceful era. The Cold War Begins The Cold War started after 1945, when the Soviet Union began imposing Communist regimes on weaker countries throughout Eastern Europe. The United States and its allies feared both this sudden increase in Soviet power and further Soviet expansion. Deep mistrust of the ruthless Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin intensified Western concerns. To contain the spread of Communism, the United States under President Harry S. Truman introduced two plans. The Truman Doctrine (1947) provided military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey. The Marshall Plan (1948) provided economic assistance to all the war-torn countries of Western Europe. These programs helped weaken Communist influences throughout Western Europe. Nevertheless, by 1948 the Soviets had firmly established Communist rule in Eastern Europe. The Soviets countered the Marshall Plan with the Berlin Blockade. They hoped to force the United States, Great Britain, and France to abandon their postwar occupation of West Berlin. (This half of the German capital was surrounded by Soviet-controlled territory that later became the Communist state of East Germany.) But the allies were able to defeat the blockade with the Berlin Airlift ( ). In 1949, the United States, Britain, France, Canada, and eight other nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). They signed a common defense treaty to prevent Soviet aggression. In 1955, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites formed the Warsaw Pact. This organization was meant to counter NATO's military strength.

7 The Cold War intensified in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb. That same year in China, the Communists under Mao Zedong won a civil war. Mao brought the world's most populous nation into the Communist camp. The Cold War turned hot in Asia in Communist North Korea, with Soviet approval, invaded non-communist South Korea. The United States, under the banner of the United Nations, led the defense of South Korea during the Korean War ( ). To the Brink of Nuclear War After Stalin died in 1953, there was a brief improvement in Soviet-American relations. But in 1962, the Cold War reached its most dangerous moment with the Cuban Missile Crisis. At the time, President John F. Kennedy resided in the White House and Nikita Khrushchev was supreme leader of the Soviet Union. For nearly two weeks in October, the two superpowers stood at the brink of nuclear war. Finally they were able to resolve their differences. Vietnam and Détente After the Cuban missile crisis, the United States became increasingly involved in an unsuccessful war to stop Communist expansion into South Vietnam. While the Vietnam War was at its height in the late 1960's and early 1970's, Soviet-American relations actually improved, despite the Soviets' aid to North Vietnam. This period of relaxation of tensions between the superpowers was known as détente. In 1972 the first nuclear arms control agreement was reached. Another important event during this time was the deepening feud between the Soviet Union and Communist China. Their differences divided the Communist world. The End of the Cold War Several crises, including a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, ended détente. But relations improved again in 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev, who wished to end Cold War tensions, became the Soviet leader. He found an enthusiastic partner in U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who earlier had called the Soviet Union an "evil empire." In 1987, the two leaders signed the first treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons. In 1989, popular discontent led to the collapse of the Soviet Union's Communist allies in Eastern Europe. The most dramatic event of that year took place when the disintegrating government of East Germany tore down the Berlin Wall. It had been the most powerful symbol of the Cold War. By 1990, at a meeting in Paris, U.S. president George Bush was able to announce, "We have closed a chapter in history. The Cold War is over." The following year, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Kort, Michael G. "Cold War." The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online. 2 Jan <

8 How to Build a Fallout Shelter After WWII, fallout shelters in basements and backyards, designed to reduce the risk of radiation exposure from a nuclear bomb became popular. Consider some guidelines when building your own shelter. Step1: Choose a below ground area for your fallout shelter if earthquakes and flooding are not a threat. Although above ground shelters are permissible under these conditions, the ground, itself, provides a natural a barrier, effectively reducing radiation levels. Step 2: Design your fallout shelter to provide space for all the occupants to live for a minimum of two weeks after a nuclear incident, to allow radiation to subside to a safer level. This means designing sleeping and bathroom quarters if no basement living area is available. If you plan to use your shelter only for protection from storms, you may choose to build a smaller model. Step 3: Excavate and pour concrete walls to a thickness of 8 inches and reinforce the concrete with steel, in the form of structural rebar. Following national building code is sufficient for underground fallout shelters. Step 4: Waterproof the concrete walls of your shelter before you backfill. Purchase a good tarbased sealant and roll it thickly on dried concrete walls to prevent ground moisture and runoff from entering the shelter. Step 5: Allow for adequate ventilation. Install a roof fan to release hot air that accumulates in the shelter and provide filtered intakes to remove the largest fallout particles in the air if your shelter is for radiation protection. Step 6: Construct a reinforced ceiling in your shelter, covered by 12 inches of soil. If your shelter is large, an engineered steel truss system will provide additional protection from the soil or concrete that will cover the shelter. Pouring a patio on top of the shelter is a popular way to add extra protection. Avoid using the above ground surface as a driveway. Step 7: Provide an adequate water source. Experts disagree on the long-term danger from drinking irradiated water but all agree that in the days following a nuclear incident, exposed water sources are undrinkable. Filtering drinking water may not provide adequate protection. Consider installing a distillation unit in your shelter to process water before drinking or washing. Step 8: Install a heavy steel door to the entrance of your fallout shelter to deflect radioactive particles. In addition, the safest method of entrance to a shelter is from a door installed flat on the ground with the stairs descending below. Elevated entrances provide less protection from radiation but if one is necessary, pour concrete exterior walls and push soil up around the walls as high as possible. Sheridan, Glyn. "How to Build a Fallout Shelter." ehow.com. Web. 3 Jan <

9 Timeline of the Cold War 1940s 1950s 1945: February Yalta Conference; Cold War Begins 1945: August 6 -- United States first used atomic bomb in war 1945: August 8 -- Russia enters war against Japan 1945: August Japanese surrender End of World War II 1946: March -- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech 1947: March -- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War 1947: June -- Marshall Plan is announced 1948: February -- Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia 1948: June Berlin Blockade begins 1949: July -- NATO ratified 1949: May Berlin Blockade ends 1949: September -- Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China 1949: September -- Soviets explode first atomic bomb 1950: February -- Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt 1950: June -- Korean War begins 1951: January Federal Civil Defense Administration established 1953: June Rosenberg executions 1953: July -- Korean War ends 1954: March -- KGB established CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala 1954: July -- Vietnam split at 17th parallel 1955: May -- Warsaw Pact formed 1956: October - November -- Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back 1957: October 4 -- Sputnik launched into orbit 1958: November -- Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin 1959: January -- Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro 1959: September -- Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland

10 1960s 1970s 1980s 1960: May -- Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory 1960: November -- John F. Kennedy elected President 1961: April -- Bay of Pigs invasion 1961: July -- Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military 1961: August Berlin border closed 1961: August Construction of Berlin Wall begins 1962: -- U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased 1962: October -- Cuban Missile Crisis 1963: July -- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified 1963: November -- President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas 1964: August -- Gulf of Tonkin incident 1965: April -- U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism 1965: July -- Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam 1968: January -- North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo 1968: August -- Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt 1969: July Apollo 11 lands on the moon 1970: April -- President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia 1972: July -- SALT I signed 1973: January -- Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States 1973: September -- United States helps overthrow Chile government 1973: October -- Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid 1974: August -- President Nixon resigns 1975: April North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam 1979: July -- SALT II signed 1979: November -- Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis 1983: -- President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative 1983: October -- U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada 1985: -- Iran-Contra Affair (arms sold to Iran, profits used to support contras in Nicaragua) 1985: -- Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union

11 1990s 1986: October -- Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe 1986: November -- Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public 1987: October -- Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty 1989: January -- Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan 1989: June -- China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent 1989: September -- Hungary becomes independent 1989: November -- Berlin Wall falls 1989: December -- Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends 1990: March -- Lithuania becomes independent 1990: May Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia 1990: October 3 -- Germany reunited 1991: April -- Warsaw Pact ends 1991: August -- End of Soviet Union; Cold War Ends

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