1. The Cold War from
As you move through the PowerPoint, take notes on your timeline. Some topics also require reading excerpts from the textbook (as noted on your handout) or watching video clips. When you finish, analyze the primary documents on the back of the handout.

2. What was the Cold War?
The Cold War was a period of intense hostility between the US and the USSR that stopped just short of actual war
It lasted from

3. How did both sides try to become more powerful during the Cold War?
Build Alliances
Spread their ideas
Acquire the most weapons (arms race)
Win non-war competitions
Space race, Sports (Olympics)
Win proxy wars
Korea, Afghanistan

4. The Iron Curtain
In 1946, Winston Churchill gave a famous speech about the start of the Cold War
He said that an “iron curtain” had fallen across Europe
What do you think he meant by this?
More information about the speech:

5. Truman Doctrine (1947)
The US states it will take responsibility for defending “free peoples who are resisting subjugation” throughout the world
Often in the form of economic and military aid
Why so significant?
Think about America’s traditional foreign policy…

6. Marshall Plan (1948)
Named after George Marshall, the US Secretary of State
Gave billions of dollars to help Western Europe recover from the war
Enacted to create a stable Europe, which would hopefully prevent any Communist political parties from becoming more popular

7. Containment
The US wanted to prevent the spread of Communism by firm resistance
This general policy of the US towards the USSR during the Cold War was called containment
How do you think the Soviets viewed Truman and his policies?
Images like this made
Americans fearful of the
threat of Communism

8. The First Problem of the Cold War: The Division of Germany
Germany had been divided into 4 zones of occupation after the war
Berlin, though in the Soviet section, had been divided, too
In 1948, Stalin begins a blockade of West Berlin to try to force the West to give up control of that part of the city What should be done?
Occupied Germany

9. The Solution: The Berlin Airlift
Though a potentially dangerous situation, which could have escalated into war,
the US responds with the Berlin Airlift, and flies plane-loads of supplies around
the clock into West Berlin for over a year to support the West Berliners.
Stalin eventually ends the blockade.
                                     

10. 1949: A Busy Year West and East Germany are officially divided.
The USSR detonates its first atomic bomb—the arms race begins!
Deterrence:
Using the threat of a massive counter-strike to prevent an attack from an enemy; requires both sides to stockpile huge amounts of weapons

11. 1949: A Busy Year A civil war in China is won by Communist forces
A Western military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created

13. Results in a Climate of Fear…
All of these changes result in a climate of fear.
Watch this video clip to see how the US government tried to make kids feel safer during this time…enjoy 

14. Korean War ( )
North Korea invades South Korea to establish a Communist regime
US sends troops to help the South
The fighting results in a stalemate
What is the significance?

15. 1953-1955 Stalin dies and is replaced by Nikita Khrushchev
The Warsaw Pact is created
Most Eastern European states that are under Soviet influence (known as satellite states) join this military pact with the USSR
Stalin dies and is replaced by Nikita Khrushchev

16. Sputnik Space Race
During the Cold War, the two sides often competed in non-military ways
The Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first satellite, launched the start of one such competition-the Space Race

17. Berlin Wall, 1961 Ordered by Nikita Khrushchev
Built to stop flow of refugees to West Berlin
Symbol of the Cold War
Watch this video:

18. You are the President of the United States, and a spy plane has just brought back this photo from a run over Cuba—which shows Soviet nuclear missiles--- what do you do?

19. Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviets supplied Cuba (a recent convert to Communism) with missiles that could hit the US
Kennedy and Khrushchev succeed in defusing the situation through letters and a naval blockade
VERY tense moment in the Cold War-perhaps the closest we came to nuclear war

21. By the 1980s, this is how the world was divided:

22. If you want to test your knowledge…
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