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The Cold War
Two Superpowers EmergeSlide2
Preview and Processing
Who are the main characters in the cartoon?
What is the cartoon implying about the United Nations?
What is the cartoon saying about communication between democratic and communist countries?
How did the Iron Curtain contribute to the Cold War tensions?
What was the Cold War?Slide3Slide4
Two Superpowers
US & USSR: different philosophies
US
demobilized
after WWII; peace
USSR
maintained
; protection wh/ = buffer zone
Dominate E. Europe: 100 mil more peopleSlide5
Page 966 in textSlide6
United Nations
San Francisco
June 1945
Two Divisions
General Assembly: every member nation could voteSlide7
Security Council: GB, FR, US USSR & China=permanent
6 other members chosen from
G.A.
& serve 2 yrs (now up to 10 other members)
5 perm. Ea. w/ veto power
No major power can refuse to join
Peace keeping force
Social & economic issues: Ed, food health
Universal Declaration of Human RightsSlide8Slide9Slide10
Making the Connection
Why is the security council made of five specific nations?
How has the UN been used in negotiations?
What is the ultimate goal and/or purpose of the UN?
Why is the UN often viewed as ineffective?Slide11
Atomic and Nuclear Weapons
USSR w/ bomb by 1949
Hydrogen bombSlide12
Europe After War
Empires fell: GB gave up India
Clement Atlee
(Who is he?)
Germany
Yalta Conference: GER divided into 4 occupation zones controlled by GB, FR USSR & US; Capt. City of Berlin also dividedSlide13
Making the Connection
From the photographs, compare the relationship between the “Big Threes.”
Why is deciding on a peace agreement so important after WWII?
What lessons did the Allied powers learn from WWI when negotiating peace?Slide14
1949 3 democratic zones joined wh/ = Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
USSR
wh
/ =
German Democratic Republic
(East Germany)Slide15Slide16
Berlin Airlift
June 1948 Stalin blocked entry to W. Berlin
35 days of food
Massive airlift: 4,500 tons of food & supplies every day (toys)
60 bombers to GB
May 12, 1949 Stalin ended blockade
Video ClipSlide17
Iron Curtain
Satellites: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Buffer zone
Truman Doctrine
Help countries resist communism
Containment
Greece & Turkey
Marshall Plan
$ to W. Europe: 13
bil
to 16 countries
Rival Alliances
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Warsaw PactSlide18
USSR & Eastern Europe
March 5, 1953 Stalin died
Nikita Khrushchev
Son of a metal worker
Rose through the ranks
De-Stalinization: Stalin had killed & jailed many loyal Soviet citizens
Buried outside Kremlin Wall
Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
Began the building of the Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile CrisisSlide19
The Berlin Wall
What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
Why did the citizens of Berlin not challenge the wall?
Who was Hans Conrad Schumann?
In what year was the Berlin Wall built and what year did it come down?
Name the Soviet leader who ordered it built and the Soviet leader who ordered it torn down.Slide20
August 15, 1961: Leaps over a barbed wire barricade at the Bernauer Street sector into West BerlinSlide21Slide22
Video clip: Berlin WallSlide23
The Berlin Wall
What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
Why did the citizens of Berlin not challenge the wall?Slide24
The Berlin Wall
Who was Hans Conrad Schumann?
Hans Conrad Schumann
(March 28, 1942 – June 20, 1998) was an
East German
soldier who famously defected to
West Germany during
the construction of
the Berlin Wall in 1961Slide25
The Berlin Wall
In what year was the Berlin Wall built and what year did it come down?
April 16, 1961
November 10, 1989Slide26
The Berlin Wall
Name the Soviet leader who ordered it built and the Soviet leader who ordered it torn down.
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail GorbachevSlide27
Cuban Missile CrisisSlide28Slide29
Making the Connection
What was the
Duck and Cover Program
?
Why would the US tell the public that by doing this, they could save their
life?
(Video: Duck and Cover)Slide30
Leonid BrezhnevBrezhnev Doctrine: Keep counties fr. Turing away
fr.
Communism