PPT-The Cold War 1945-1991 …in America

War time production ends and 800000 lose jobs post Mostly Women and Minorities Lack of supply causes prices to rise People have but nothing to buy GI bill increases housing demands GI Bill soldiers got for their WWII service. Page 1 A West German visitor to the Berlin Wall uses a hammer and a chisel to chip off a piece of the Wall as a souvenir. A portion of the Wall has already been demolished at Potsdamer Platz, 11/1 AIM: Who “won” the Cold War?. Do Now: Based on the cartoon, does peace come at a cost?. The Arab Oil Embargo and the Energy Crisis . Six-Day War (1967): . In 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel trying to win back lands . Mikhail . Gorbachev rises . to power in . 1985. Meetings between Gorbachev and Reagan. The . fall of the Berlin Wall in . 1989. Ger. m. any's reunification. The . collapse of the Soviet . Union . in 1991 . APUSH, Unit . 12. Post WW1 Foreign Policy. Unilateral … acting independently. Didn’t join League of Nations. Promote a vision of international order. Maintain US Isolationism. “Select” Military Intervention. Lesson 3 . The Cold War Intensifies. Learning Objectives. Describe how Cold War tensions were intensified by the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.. Explain how Eisenhower’s response to communism differed from that of Truman.. L/O – To identify the key features and turning points of the Cold War and understand the nature of the conflict. What was the Cold War?. Cold War. . = . a period of extreme tension between states stopping just short of war.. From Allies to Enemies & Cold War Theory. Thesis. The West's fear of communism and perception that the USSR reneged on a series of deals made at various conferences at the end of World War II, coupled with Joseph Stalin's paranoia about at Third World War led to an increasing divided between the Allies at the end of World War II. This caused tacit escalation on both sides resulting in the perception that two ideologies were opposite and incompatible. The result was a series of moves isolation and dividing Europe between East and West, resulting in the Cold War. 1945-1963. Containment in a Divided World. The Cold War began at the close of WW2 in 1945 and ended in 1991.. The Cold War in Europe, 1945-1946. Yalta. Yalta Conference the “Big Three” met to reconcile . Revision for HSC 2014. The 1945 Conferences. Yalta Conference. In February 1945 Winston Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference. At this conference it was decided that Germany would be divided into four allied sectors after the war; that the Soviet Union would join the war against Japan; free elections would be held throughout Eastern Europe and the Lublin Committee, provisional Polish government, would no longer consist of just Communists. However, the Soviet Union did not adhere to these terms and instead; Stalin began to install communist governments in other Eastern European countries. . Both sides knew that a real “WW3”, a nuclear war, would be unwinnable.. However the Cold War had many characteristics of an actual war:. Arms race . (when countries compete to have the most effective armed forces). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C72ISMF_D0&index=38&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s. . Due Friday: . Reading Quiz on Friday. Overview. Study Guide . Supporting Documents. African American Theme Sheet Part 1. 2-27-15 The Cold War DO NOW: Why a Cold War? Agenda Analyze & Apply Data Interpret & Draw Conclusions-Multimedia Summarize & Generalize Notes Student Workbook-Organize/Classify Review of China, USSR, and. Cold War Foreign Policies. Nixon to Carter Diplomacy/Foreign Policy. Cold War . 1949-1991 – USSR/US. Space race, Berlin Wall, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cuba, culture in US. Gorbachev rises . to power in . 1985. Meetings between Gorbachev and Reagan. The . fall of the Berlin Wall in . 1989. Ger. m. any's reunification. The . collapse of the Soviet . Union . in 1991 . Boyer and .