Cold War, Globalisation and the Rise of US Hegemony:

From Yalta to Vietnam

Dr Andrew Roadnight10 March 2015

The USA in 1945

RETURN TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION?

‘CITY UPON THE HILL’

MANIFEST DESTINY

USA – AN IMPERIAL NATION

The USSR in 1945 USSR’S WWII SACRIFICE

SOVIET SECURITY CONCERNS

LENIN’S THEORY OF IMPERIALISM

VANGUARD OF THE OPPRESSED

Outbreak of the Cold War GRAND ALLIANCE FALLS APART

CONTEST FOR EASTERN EUROPE

SOVIET SUSPICIONS OF THE WEST

CHARACTERS OF THE LEADERS

Outbreak of the Cold War SOVIET PRESSURE: IRAN (1946)

CHURCHILL’S IRON CURTAIN

KENNAN’S ‘CONTAINMENT THEORY’

THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (1947)

ZHADANOV – ‘TWO CAMPS’

NSC 68 SOVIET A-BOMB (1949)

CHINESE REVOLUTION – MAO ZEDONG

NSC 68 (APRIL 1950)

KOREAN WAR (25 JUNE 1950)

The Korean War SYNGMAN RHEE

KIM IL SUNG

‘ROLLBACK’

WEST GERMANY AND JAPAN

SINO-SOVIET FRICTION

The Cold War and the 3rd World

DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND ‘MASSIVE RETALIATION’

NIKITA KHRUSCHEV AND ‘PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE’

NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT (BANDUNG, 1955)

NUCLEAR ARMS RACE

Détente in Europe LEONID BREZHNEV AND ‘DÉTENTE’

WILLY BRANDT: A SETTLEMENT IN GERMANY (1973)

EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE

THE HELSINKI DECLARATION (1975)

Countdown to Vietnam 1950s: THE AMERICAN DREAM

THE CIA, NATIONALISM AND THE ‘DOMINO THEORY’

HO CHI MINH & DIEN BIEN PHU (1954)

THE GENEVA CONFERENCE (1955)

Vietnam: An American Disaster NGO DINH DIEM – SINK OR SWIM

US MILITARY COMMITMENT: 1960 – <1000; 1963 – 16,000; 1968 – 568,000

USSR ACHIEVES NUCLEAR PARITY

1968: NIXON ELECTED

Détente SUMMIT CONFERENCES 1972,

1973, 1974

ARMS CONTROL, MISSILE REDUCTION, TRADE DEALS

1973: CEASEFIRE IN VIETNAM

1975: DÉTENTE IS DEAD

The Cold War: An Assessment