Slide 1 The Cold War 1945 - 1975 Slide 2 The Cold War USSR vs. USA United Nations – Security Council – General Assembly Potsdam – Satellite nations – Germany Divided…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 The Appeal of McCarthyism Suggested US foreign policy failures (“Who Lost China?”) were not the fault of wrongheaded policies, but rather because…
Slide 1 Slide 2 “Strange Fruit,” performed by Billie Holiday 1956 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and advocate of “rollback”…
Slide 1 1960s This was the most dangerous decade. Slide 2 A summit was planned for May 1960 to discuss Berlin and nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower wanted an 'open…
Slide 1 Cold War Across The Decades 35 More Years of Ideological Conflict Slide 2 The Cold War 50’s Race for the H-BombRace for the H-Bomb - US vs. Soviets in nuclear weapons…