1. The Korean War ………in context

2. The significance of an event is not only determined by what actually happens…… ……but also by its PLACE in a SEQUENCE of events

3. End of Second World War

4. Yalta - February 1945

5. Potsdam - July 1945

6. Atomic bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945

7. Ideological gap

8. Spread of Communism

9. Stalin’s satellite states

10. Iron curtain speech - 1946 From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

11. Stalin’s reply Churchill is a warmonger

12. Truman doctrine - 1947 Key word = containment the policy of the United States “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

13. Marshall Aid - 1947 Marshall Aid took the form of fuel, raw materials, goods, loans and food, machinery and advisers. It jump-started rapid European economic growth, and stopped the spread of Communism.

14. Aid in dollars

15. Cominform - 1947 Communist Information Bureau to coordinate actions between Communist parties under Soviet direction.

16. Tito and Yugoslavia - 1948

17. Czechoslovakia - 1948 Communism imposed on an unwilling nation

18. Battlefield Berlin

19. Berlin Blockade and Airlift

20. A symbolic conflict

22. Plans for NATO announced

23. NATO - 1949 An armed attack against one or more of them shall be considered an attack against them all. if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.

24. Comecon - 1949 an economic organization of communist states

25. Meanwhile….

26. ..and

27. Russian atomic bomb - 1949

28. Communism spreads to China

29. USSR support...

30. Spotlight Korea - 1950

31. General MacArthur

32. Stage 1 - North Korea invades South Korea

33. Stage 2 - UN forces under General MacArthur counter attack

34. Stage 3 - UN forces advance into North Korea towards China

35. Stage 4 - Chinese forces invade South Korea

36. Stage 5 - stalemate (it takes three years to agree an armistice)

37. Death of Stalin

38. …The Cold War conflict shifts back into Europe. THE BIG QUESTION: will the death of Stalin result in a THAW?