Lesson 3: Early Cold War
What were the causes of the Cold War?
Source Analysis
Find the document in the shared drive titled "Iron Curtain Speech." Read your assigned section and make note of the important points Winston Churchill wanted to convey.
Iron Curtain Speech.pdfThe United States vs. The Soviet Union
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a realist doctrine that led to a lack of nuclear strikes between the United States and the Soviet Union. It kept the war "cold."
Early Cold War Timeline.pdfDestalinization
Nikita Khrushchev.pdfThe Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis , or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day (16 October – 20 November 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.
Brezhnev
Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR.pdfCarter and Brezhnev sign the SALT-II treaty.pdf