1. The Cold War and the Atomic Age

2. Lecture Outline & Key Terms
Development of Atomic/Nuclear Technology
The First Atomic Warfare
The Cold War
Causes and Components of the Cold War
Worldviews
The Red Scare
Nuclear Arms Race
Effects and Events of the Cold War
Fears on the Homefront
Cuban Missile Crisis
Key Terms
Manhattan Project
Atomic Bomb
Trinity Test
Hiroshima, Japan
Nagasaki Japan
Key Dates
July 16, 1945
August 6, 1945
August 9, 1945

3. I. Development of Atomic/Nuclear Technology

4. The Trinity Test

5. Hiroshima, Japan

6. Nagasaki, Japan

7. End of World War II

8. III. The Cold War
The Cold War results from a tension between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., largely over their worldviews after World War II, the issue of communism, and the nuclear arms race.

9. IV. Causes & Components of the Cold War
A. Worldviews
The United States advocated the “One World” worldview; the Soviet Union wanted superpowers.

10. IV. Causes & Components of the Cold War B. The Red Scare (Communism)

11. IV. Causes & Components of the Cold War C. The Nuclear Arms Race

12. IV. Causes & Components of the Cold War. C. The Nuclear Arms Race
IV. Causes & Components of the Cold War C. The Nuclear Arms Race Tsar Bomba

13. V. Effects/Events of the Cold War A. Fears on the Homefront

14. V. Effects/Events of the Cold War B. The Cuban Missile Crisis