The Cold War
by Connor Wetsch
1. USSR and The US
1.1. actions of defense misinterpreted as ones of aggression
1.2. 1946 - Stalin and Truman suspicious about each other
1.2.1. US preparing for war
1.2.2. hired spies from their embassy in each others countries
1.2.3. Truman allegedly planned world domination
1.3. 1945 Yalta conference - Roosevelt and Stalin couldn't come to a compromise
1.3.1. Stalin lied about giving the BLOC countries a vote
1.4. 1945 - agreements between Churchill Stalin and Roosevelt on what to do about Nazi Germany
1.4.1. America testing nuclear bombs
1.4.1.1. Russia testing nuclear bombs
1.5. communist parties
1.5.1. perestroika
1.5.1.1. political movement for reformation
1.5.1.2. glasnost
1.5.1.2.1. policy reform
1.5.1.2.2. meaning openness
2. Key events
2.1. Berlin airlift
2.2. Hungarian uprising
2.3. Cuban missile crisis
2.3.1. Kennedy
2.3.1.1. Naval blockade
2.4. The Vietnam war
2.4.1. president Nixon
2.4.1.1. withdrawal of US troops
2.5. the Prague spring - Czechoslovakia
2.6. the soviet/Afghani war
3. Causes of the Cold War
3.1. fear and mistrust
3.2. Demise of common enemy (Hitler)
3.3. Russian Civil war
3.4. Iron Curtain Speech
3.5. Opposing ideology's
3.5.1. Capatlism vs. Communism
3.6. Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan
3.7. US use of atomic bomb
3.8. Post war conferences and broken promises
3.9. The Arms Race
4. Canada and the United Nations
4.1. formation of the UN and Canada's early role
4.2. the Korean war
4.3. the Suez crisis
4.4. Canada and peace keeping
4.5. Canada and other organizations
5. The end of the Cold War
5.1. Mikhail Gorbachev and the beginning of the end
5.2. Gorbachev's reforms
5.3. The decline of communism
5.4. A different world
5.5. New role for peackeeping - 4 types
5.5.1. preventative diplomacy
5.5.2. peacekeeping
5.5.3. peacemaking
5.5.4. peace building
5.6. New UN peacekeeping missions
5.6.1. the Persian gulf
5.6.2. Somalia
5.6.3. Rwanda
5.7. Problems with peacekeeping
6. Canada and the Cold War
6.1. The creation of NATO
6.1.1. Warsaw pact - soviet equivalent to NATO