Slide 1 : The Second World War
and the Cold War
Slide 2 : Pre-war attitudes (see Drift towards World War II handout)
Slide 3 : Isolationism Neutrality Act (1935)
Slide 4 : Gradual shift toward involvement
Slide 5 : Cash and Carry Destroyer Deal Lend-Lease Act (repealed Neutrality Act)
Slide 6 : Relations with Japan Japanese fears concerning resources, etc.
Slide 7 : Pearl Harbor U.S. Enters War
Slide 8 : The Home Front Some important wartime agencies
Slide 9 : War Production Board Organized and coordinated industries to make quick, efficient transition to production of war materials. No consumer autos were built during war.
Slide 10 : Office of War Information Responsible for maintaining morale – positive propaganda
Slide 11 : Office of Price Administration Set prices, rationed goods, fought inflation and black market – assured military needs were met
Slide 12 : War Labor Board Settled disputes between business and labor Avoided strikes and maintained morale
Slide 13 : Fair Employment Practices Committee Prevented employer discrimination against workers Foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s
Slide 14 : Conduct of war Two front war for the U.S. Europe first (See War Strategy H/O)
Slide 15 : World War II Allies Included Great Britain, Free France, the USSR, and nationalist China.
Slide 16 : Conferences Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran: Planned war strategy Yalta: (1945) planned post-war strategies
Slide 17 : Postwar Period Service men’s readjustment act of 1944 (GI Bill) The United Nations Organization favored big winners Post-War
Slide 18 : The Cold War
Slide 19 : The Truman Doctrine Pledged aid to Greece and Turkey Containment policy Intended to keep communism within its original borders
Slide 20 : Marshall Plan Offered recovery assistance to all European countries Communist countries declined
Slide 21 : Berlin Blockade Soviets block land access U.S. responds by air
Slide 22 : NATO Designed to block or contain Communists, especially Soviet, expansion Ignored George Washington’s advice against permanent alliances Cold War
Slide 23 : Communist victory in China Nationalists flee to Taiwan Government there recognized as China by the United States and the U.N. until Nixon
Slide 24 : Korean War Communist North Korea attacks South Korea, the U.N. responds Armistice terms restore status quo
Slide 25 : SEATO Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is the Pacific equivalent to NATO
Slide 26 : France, Dien Bien Phu, and our involvement in Vietnam Antiwar demonstrations and Jane Fonda
Slide 27 : Hungarian Revolt Soviets crush Hungarian revolution
Slide 28 : Aswan Dam Soviets assist Egypt in building the dam U.S. and Britain offered first but withdrew the offer
Slide 29 : Suez Canal seizure Egypt takes control, France, Britain and Israel invade, U.S. and Soviets stop them Superpower “diplomacy” at work
Slide 30 : Eisenhower Doctrine Offers aid to Middle Eastern countries who feel threatened by communism
Slide 31 : U-2 incident U.S. spy plane shot down over Soviet territory
Slide 32 : Independence of African nations Civil Wars break out all over
Slide 33 : Cuban Revolution Castro takes over, announces communist regime, relations with the U.S. deteriorate
Slide 34 : Bay of Pigs Cuban refugees, backed by the United States fail to overthrow Castro
Slide 35 : Berlin Wall Soviets seal off East Berlin with physical Wall
Slide 36 : Cuban Missile Crisis Soviets attempt to place missiles in Cuba. The U.S. blockades
Slide 37 : The “Hotline” Direct link between U.S. and USSR intended to divert nuclear disaster First used during six day war
Slide 38 : Nuclear test ban treaty Allowed only underground testing
Slide 39 : Outer Space treaty Banned the military bases weapons and weapons tests in outer space
Slide 40 : Nuclear nonproliferation treaty Banned the spread of nuclear weapons among signatory nations
Slide 41 : 1969. Nixon’s visit to China Communist China had already become the U.N. member, now President Nixon’s visit opened new friendly relations with this huge nation
Slide 42 : Detente 1972-President Nixon visited Moscow and signed several agreements including the anti-ballistic missile treaty The Cold War eased
Slide 43 : The Reagan Revolution The West wins the Cold War The Gorbachev influence The I.N.F. Treaty
Slide 44 : 1980 Election Issues Debates Hostage crisis
Slide 45 : Reagan and Communism Evil Empire
Nicaragua
Latin America
Granada
Slide 46 : 1988 Election Candidates and issues Bush policies Desert Storm and Middle East policy economics civil rights
Slide 47 : William Jefferson Clinton All of this review to present will be done in the classroom