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cold war Conflicts

VIDEO I

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The conflictS and rivalry between the East and The West

PROXY WARS - wojny zastępcze(STARCIA ZBROJNE FORMALNIE MIĘDZY INNYMI PAŃSTWAMI, ALE WSPIERANYMI PRZEZ USA I ZSRR)

  • ze strony USA:
  • “czerwona panika” (obawa przed agentami ZSRR, tzw. makkartyzm – inwigilacja i represje wobec Amerykanów sympatyzujących z komunizmem)
  • motyw walki zbrojnej z komunizmem w popkulturze (np. w serii filmów o Jamesie Bondzie)
  • audycje radiowe w językach środkowoeuropejskich (Głos Ameryki, BBC, Radio Wolna Europa) – zagłuszane w krajach komunistycznych

WOJNA IDEOLOGICZNA- PROPAGANDOWA

  • ze strony bloku wschodniego:
  • oskarżanie Zachodu o “imperializm”
  • obsesja antyszpiegowska
  • indoktrynacja ludności, w tym młodzieży (elementy militarne w edukacji)
  • wykorzystywanie ruchów pacyfistycznych do zwalczania polityki USA

Korean War 1950-1953

The conflict betweenthe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and The Republic of Korea (South Korea)

THE RESULTS:

  • more than a million combat casualties had been suffered on both sides
  • the fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states.
  • Negotiations in 1954 produced no further agreement
  • the front line has been accepted ever since as the de facto boundary between North and South Korea

  • In June 1950 North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South
  • The United Nations, with the USA, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans
  • People’s Republic of China came to North Korea’s aid

wietnam war (1955- 1975)

  • During the 1950s and 1960s, the United States fought wars to stop communism. Vietnam had been a French colony since the 1880s. The Vietnamese fought for independence and won in 1954. The country was split into communist North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam. Communists in South Vietnam were called the Vietcong
  • In the early 1960s, they tried to overthrow the government. North Vietnam helped the Vietcong. The United States sent military advisers and supplies to help South Vietnam fight the Vietcong. In 1965, the U.S. sent soldiers to Vietnam. The U.S. troops had better technology and weapons. They had jet bombers, tanks, and helicopters. The Vietcong fought in small groups that hid in the jungle and they controlled most of South Vietnam.

THE RESULTS

  • the U.S. was spending billions of dollars on the war.
  • Many American soldiers were dying.
  • On television people saw soldiers fighting dangerous battles and the terrible results of U.S. bombs on Vietnamese people.
  • There were antiwar demonstrations in many parts of the country
  • Richard Nixon was elected President. He started bringing soldiers home

THE RESULTS

  • U.S. planes also increased bombing of North Vietnam and started bombing Cambodia, a country west of Vietnam
  • . In 1973, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the United States agreed to a cease-fire.
  • U.S. soldiers went home.
  • The North Vietnamese won the war in 1975.
  • Over 55,000 Americans died in the war.
  • Communism was not stopped in Vietnam.

. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS October 1962

the Blocade

  1. An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba
  2. , Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba.
  3. He demanded the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites
  4. Nikita Khrushchev publicly agreed to a deal with Kennedy and the Soviets promised to dismantle the weapon sites in exchange for a pledge from the United States not to invade Cuba
  5. The missile crisis was over, the arms race was not

VIDEO II

The Soviet–Afghan War 1979-1989

  • Groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government
  • The mujahideen groups were backed by the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, making it a Cold War proxy war

The results

  • Between 562,000 and 2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees, mostly to Pakistan and Iran.
  • The international community imposed numerous sanctions and embargoes against the Soviet Union, and the U.S. led a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow.
  • The boycott and sanctions exacerbated Cold War tensions and enraged the Soviet government, which later led a revenge boycott of the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles.
  • The Soviets' failure in the war is thought to be a contributing factor to the fall of the Soviet Union

TASK 1 Przyjrzyj się mapie, a następnie wykonaj polecenia. a) Podaj nazwę konfliktu, którego dotyczy mapa. b) Wyjaśnij, co było jego przyczyną. c) Wyjaśnij, czym ten konflikt się zakończył.

Wyszukaj daty poniższych konfliktów i ułóż je chronologicznie.

TASK 2

  • Wojna w Wietnamie
  • Kryzys kubański
  • Wojna w Korei
  • Wojna w Afganistanie

Dopasuj podane hasła do właściwego konfliktu zimnej wojny.

tASK 3

WOJNA W kOREI

WOJNA W AFGANISTANIE

kONFLIKT KUBAŃSKI

FIDEL CASTRO

CHIŃSCY OCHOTNICY

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