Unit 8.3 - Effects of Cold War

"Wear a Jacket"

Creation Date: Fri Mar 14 2025

Publication Date: Tue Apr 01 2025

Splitting of countries

A lot of countries got split into a Communist and Capitalist Side The USA and USSR could not negotiate to unite them back Examples:

• Germany:
  • Split due to fears of Germany somehow rising up and becoming a threat again
  • First was split into occupied zones
  • Later merged but couldn’t agree to merge them back
    • West Germany
      • Capitalist
      • Democracy
    • East Germany
      • Communist
      • Authitarian
  • Same was the fate to many countries after WW2
• Vietnam
• Korea
• China (Civil War)
  • Was split between nationalist and communist

Alliances

• NATO and Warsaw Pact

• NATO

  • Created to defended against the USSR
    • Attack on one is attack on all
  • Still here today
  • USSR attempted to apply to NATO and got rejected lol

• Warsaw Pact

  • Anti-NATO
  • The cheap Temu knockoff of NATO
  • Created by the USSR and named after Poland capital
  • Comprised of the USSR and eastern Europe under USSR control

Power of the Atom

AKA: The nuclear bomb

• Used to end WW2 in Asia and prevent invasion of japan
• After that the USA had a monopoly on nuclear weapons and could threat

• The USSR gains nukes

  • Afraid of this nuclear monopoly the USSR develops its own nukes
  • A nuclear arms race is created, whom ever can create the most and devastating nukes
  • Leads into the cold war because both realize that we can eliminate the entire world ![[proxy-image.jpg]]