What is communism? What is a satellite nation? What is the “iron curtain”? What is containment?
Post on 18-Jan-2016
265 Views
Preview:
Transcript
Vocabulary
The Cold War (1940s-50s)Joseph Stalin vs. Harry Truman
Battle of Berlin, 1945
Germany, 1945
Key ConceptsWhat is communism?What is a satellite nation?What is the iron curtain?What is containment?CommunismAn economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of propertySatellite Nation
Satellite Nation
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain
ContainmentThe blocking of another nations attempt to spread its influenceespecially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s.Early Cold War TimelineWhat was Sputnik?What is The Marshall Plan?What is the Truman Doctrine?What happened in Berlin?What is NATO?What was the Warsaw Pact?What happened in China?What happened in Korea?What is the arms race?
The Marshall Plan, 1947
Truman Doctrine, 1947
Berlin
Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948
Berlin Blockade
NATO, 1949Military alliance of 12 nations formed in response to the Cold War. Intended to defend against Soviet aggression. Original members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Warsaw Pact, 1955Military alliance of Soviet-bloc countries to defend against NATO. Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the U.S.S.R.Created in Warsaw (the capital of Poland)
NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
Peoples Republic of China, Oct. 1949Red ChinaMao ZedongAllies itself with Soviet Union
Korean War, 1950-53Divided at 38th parallelNorth Korean invades South Korea in 1950Soviet Union supports NorthU.S. supports SouthStalemate, 1953
The Forgotten War, 1950-53
Atomic vs. Hydrogen BombHiroshima atomic bomb = 20,000 tons of TNT
Hydrogen bomb = 10,000,000 tons of TNT
Creates arm race
Hiroshima13 kilotons of TNT25Hydrogen Bomb,1952 (U.S.) 1953 (U.S.S.R.)
Fall-Out Shelters
25 megaton bomb
Modern Bomb28
Modern Bomb
29Number of Nuclear Warheads
30
32Whos Got Them Now?
33Whos Got Them Now?
34Sputnik, 1957
Berlin Wall, 1961
Key People/OrganizationsJoseph StalinHarry TrumanThe United NationsDwight D. EisenhowerJohn F. KennedyNikita KhrushchevNikita Khrushchev vs. John F. Kennedy
Joseph Stalin vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower
top related