1. Aim: How did the Cold War begin? L48 58.Super Powers: A country who dominates global politics (examples USA and Soviet Union) 59.Cold War: a continuing state of tension between the USA and the Soviet Union. No armed conflict ever occurred. Between 1945 and 1991. 60. Containment: limiting communism to areas already under Soviet Control. 61. Iron Curtain: an imaginary line that divided Soviet dominated communist countries from USA influenced countries. 62. Truman Doctrine: President Truman’s plan to enact the policy of containment.

2. Cold War (1945 -1991) The USA and the USSR were the two world Superpowers. The USA was a capitalist society with a democracy. The USSR was a communist country with a dictatorship.

3. Germany - divided After WWII, Germany was divided into four zones, occupied by French, British, American, and Soviet troops. The City of Berlin was also divided by the zones

4. Marshall Plan --Economic Aid for Europe * The U.S. gave over $12 billion in aid to European countries between 1948 and 1952, helping to improve their economies and hoping to lessen the chance of them becoming communist No countries associated with the USSR received aid.

5. The Two Sides of the Cold War CAPITALISMCOMMUNISM

6. After World War 2, the world changed! Many countries became communist after World War 2 including: -Czechoslovakia (1948) -Poland (1947) -Hungary (1947) -China (1949) -Cuba (1959) -North Korea (1945)

7. The “Iron Curtain” Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain coined the term Iron Curtain. It was the “line” between communist and non-communist countries

8. Excerpts from the Iron curtain speech - What was Churchill afraid will happen? From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow….Whatever conclusions may be drawn from these facts - and facts they are - this is certainly not the Liberated Europe we fought to build up. Nor is it one which contains the essentials of permanent peace….

9. What is the purpose of this political cartoon?

10. Cold War? The tension and rivalry between the USA and the USSR was described as the Cold War (1945-1990). There was never a real war between the two sides between 1945 and 1990, but they were often very close to war (Hotspots). During this unit we will be discussing the following events

11. The Korean War 1950-1953

12. The Berlin Wall 1961

13. The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

14. The Vietnam War c.1963-1975