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Cold War, Globalisation and the Rise of US Hegemony:
From Yalta to Vietnam
Dr Andrew Roadnight10 March 2015
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The USA in 1945
RETURN TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION?
‘CITY UPON THE HILL’
MANIFEST DESTINY
USA – AN IMPERIAL NATION
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The USSR in 1945 USSR’S WWII SACRIFICE
SOVIET SECURITY CONCERNS
LENIN’S THEORY OF IMPERIALISM
VANGUARD OF THE OPPRESSED
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Outbreak of the Cold War GRAND ALLIANCE FALLS APART
CONTEST FOR EASTERN EUROPE
SOVIET SUSPICIONS OF THE WEST
CHARACTERS OF THE LEADERS
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Outbreak of the Cold War SOVIET PRESSURE: IRAN (1946)
CHURCHILL’S IRON CURTAIN
KENNAN’S ‘CONTAINMENT THEORY’
THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (1947)
ZHADANOV – ‘TWO CAMPS’
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NSC 68 SOVIET A-BOMB (1949)
CHINESE REVOLUTION – MAO ZEDONG
NSC 68 (APRIL 1950)
KOREAN WAR (25 JUNE 1950)
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The Korean War SYNGMAN RHEE
KIM IL SUNG
‘ROLLBACK’
WEST GERMANY AND JAPAN
SINO-SOVIET FRICTION
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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
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Détente in Europe LEONID BREZHNEV AND ‘DÉTENTE’
WILLY BRANDT: A SETTLEMENT IN GERMANY (1973)
EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE
THE HELSINKI DECLARATION (1975)
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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)
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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
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Détente SUMMIT CONFERENCES 1972,
1973, 1974
ARMS CONTROL, MISSILE REDUCTION, TRADE DEALS
1973: CEASEFIRE IN VIETNAM
1975: DÉTENTE IS DEAD
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The Cold War: An Assessment