Communist information bureau 1947 3 months after the launch of marshall plan Molotov Plan 1947 Council for

Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) 1949 Berlin Blockade 1948 Allied Control Council West: Encourage Germany to recover her economy and reconstruction USSR: punish heavily Currency reform (WEST) Stalin declared that he would not accept the new currency to be used throughout Berlin, he even declared that the whole Berlin should belong to USSR 23/6/1948USSR cut all the land routes from West Germany to Berlin 2.5 M people living without vital resources like food and fuel Enough food and fuel for 6 weeksattempted to force the Western powers to withdraw and gain control of the West Berlin by starving her people Airlifting of Britain and US along the 3 narrow corridors Blockade failed and in 5/1949, the land routes were opened again Soviet-western relations worsened over the crisis. Germany was divided into 2 parts. West Germany: Federal Republic of Germany East Germany: German Democratic Republic 1961 Berlin Wall Military alliance 4/4/1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) /12 states 1955admission of West Germany into NATO as a member state NATO Combat troops Tanks Aircraft Nuclear warheads 1700000 10000 2848 7000 American:300000 The Warsaw Pact 1255000 26500 5255 3500 Soviet army: 715000

Spread of the Cold War A. Chinese Civil War 2/1950friendly treaty signed by the PRC and the USSR B. Korean War, 1950-53 Kim Il Sung: the Democratic PRK (Pyongyang) Rhee Syngman: the republic of Korea (Seoul) 38th parallel 4 M Korean died C. Vietnam War, 1961-75 Ho Chi Minh The Democratic Republic of Vietnam Ng Dinh Diem

Domino Theory

1959 Viet Cong started a Communist rebellion in South Vietnam with support of the North Vietnam EisenhowerJohn F. KennedyLyndon B. Johnson: supporting policy 1968 half a million A mericans in Vietnam 300dying per week 30 B/year 1973armistice 1975South Vietnam was defeated/ 45000 Americans died President Nixon policy of no direct intervention D. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Khrushchev peaceful coexistence 1959Fidel Castro established a Communist gov. & Kennedy supported the Cuban exiles 1962a missile base in Cuba was discovered Cuba was strategically important (near south of Florida) in respond to the US setting up intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Turkey Dtente between the US and the USSR, 1968-1979