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The Cold War Review
The Origins of the Cold War (1942-1953)
The cold war began during the Second World War
The Americans and British decided to postpone questions about the makeup of postwar Europe.
Stalin, however, wanted decisions made with regard to postwar borders
West versus East
The Marshall Plan was established to help European economic recovery; the Truman Doctrine was meant to ward off communist subversion with military aid.
The Western Renaissance
The Marshall Plan aided in economic recovery and led to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC); military protection was provided through NATO.
Decolonization
"Decolonization" brought demands for national self determination in colonial areas after the First World War.
The Second World War reduced European power and destroyed the Western sense of moral superiority.
Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945-1968
While the West surged ahead economically, eastern Europe's political, economic, and social developments were slow and uneven--nearly at a halt by the 1960s.
Stalin began a new series of purges, enforced cultural conformity, and revived the forced labor camps.


Reform and deStalinization, 1953-1964
Stalin died in 1953; Khrushchev and fellow reformers won the leadership of Russia and then denounced Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress (1956).
The Soviet standard of living was improved, and greater intellectual freedom was allowed.
The End of Reform 

ReStalinization began with Khrushchev's fall in 1964.
Khrushchev's policy of DeStalinization was opposed by old-time conservatives.
Khrushchev's erratic foreign policy
successful in building the Berlin Wall
Unsuccessful installation of missiles in Cuba.
Life after Stalin
Brezhnev stressed Stalin's "good points" and launched an arms buildup.
In Czechoslovakia the reform communists voted in Dubcek, who sought genuine socialism, democracy, and an end to censorship.
Resulting in…
This caused fear among hard-line communists in Poland, East Germany, and the Soviet Union.
Russian troops invaded Czechoslovakia, and the reformers surrendered.
Brezhnev declared (the Brezhnev Doctrine) that the Soviets had the right to intervene in any socialist country; further repression occurred within the Soviet Union.

New Roles for Women 
Emancipation of women
Women married earlier and bore their children quickly; a baby-boom occurred in the 1950s but in the 1960s the birth rate declined--reaching a no-growth level by the mid-1970s.
Therefore, most women had smaller families
After World War II almost all women had to go outside the home to find cash income--this helped by an economic boom of 1950-1973.
Youth and the counterculture 
Prosperity and increased democracy in the late 1950s and 1960s led to a youth culture that rebelled against authority and the status quo.
Rock music by Elvis Presley and then the Beatles encouraged its popularity.
Rock poet singer Bob Dylan best expressed the movement's radical politics, while the Beatles encouraged personal and sexual freedom.
Détente or cold war 
An alternative to the cold war was "détente"-- the progressive relaxation of cold war tensions between East and West
Détente was blocked by Brezhnev's Soviet actions in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Carter, then President Reagan, increased American military spending--and joined Britain's Thatcher to check the Soviets.
The Soviet leader Gorbachev saw that the cold war was foolish and dangerous