Slide 1 Slide 2 The Early Cold War: 1947-1960 The Early Cold War: 1947-1960 Chapter 26 Slide 3 1945A Critical Year As the end of World War II approached, relations between…
Slide 1 Slide 2 COLD WAR MUSEUM Click here to come inside Slide 3 Where do you want to go? Post-War Reconstruction Cold War Involvement Cold War Crises Click here to go to…
Slide 1Case Study 1: Hungarian Uprising October, 1956 Slide 2 Why was there opposition in Hungary? Hard-line leader Matyas Rakosi –No freedom of speech –Secret police…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Focus What do you remember about the Cold War from World History? Slide 3 The Cold War [1945-1991]: An Ideological Struggle Soviet & Eastern Bloc Nations…
Slide 1Harry Truman Democrat 1945-1953 Slide 2 Post War-1950’s Domestic Issues After WW2, the nation needed to Demobilize, convert factories back to make civilian goods.…
Slide 1Peacetime Adjustments and the Cold War Slide 2 Peacetime Economics and Politics After the war, defense industries reduced their workforce and began to lay off workers.…
Slide 1 Slide 2 The Cold War: An Overview Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 The Arms Race: A “Missile Gap?” }The Soviet Union exploded its first A-bomb in 1949. }Now there were…
Slide 1 Slide 2 The Cold War Begins USA v USSR The United States of America Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The battle for the hearts and minds of the world. Slide 3…
Slide 1 The Consequences of WWII Decolonization and Cold War Slide 2 Consequences of WWII Staggering casualties – over 20 million in the Soviet Union alone Decline of European…