The Cold War

The Cold War can best be described as U.S. - Soviet relations after World War II. The Soviet influence on Eastern Europe brought distrust. The Soviet Union, once an ally in World War II, brought distrust by its influence in Eastern Europe. Countries such as Poland, Czechoslavakia, Bulgaria, Hungary as well as the eastern part of divided Germany would all fall to communism.

Topics:

American & Soviet relations

American Democracy vs. Soviet Communism

President Truman

Paths to Peace with the Soviet Union

U.S. Military presence (globally)

Atomic Monopoly

Soviet Expansion

The "Iron Curtain"

Eastern Bloc

Warsaw Pact vs. NATO

U.S. Reaction to Soviet Expansion

Containment Policy

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin

Berlin Airlift

Global Response

Latin America - Rio Pact, Organization of American States

The Middle East

The Korean War

North Korea vs. South Korea - Communism vs. Democracy

Kim Il Sung, Syngman Rhee

38th Parallel

Invasion of South Korea

"Liberation of North Korea"

Peace Talks

Armistice and non-aggression treaty

Vietnam

Origins of foreign occupancy - French conquest

French Indochina

Viet Mihn and Vietnamese independence

Ho Chi Mihn

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North) vs Republic of Vietnam (South)

Communist North Vs. Democratic South

17th Parallel

Hanoi

Saigon

President Kennedy and Vietnam

President Johnson and Vietnam

Viet Cong

Tonkin Gulf

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

William Westmoreland

Ho Chi Mihn Trail

Tet Offensive

American objection to Vietnam

Walter Cronkite

Richard Nixon

Vietnamization

Paris Peace Accords

War Powers Act