LESSON 1

SUPERPOWERS AT WAR

• After World War Two the U.S. and the
• Soviet Union entered a conflict called the
• Cold War

COLD WAR

• The Soviet Union gained control
• and set up communist governments

COLD WAR

• In 1948 the Soviet Union tried
• to force the U.S.,Great Britan
• and France to leave West Berlin

COLD WAR CONFLICTS

• The Korean War and the Cuban
• Missle Crisis were two major conflicts
• in the Cold War

COLD WAR CONFLICTS

• The Korean War was unresolved

COLD WAR CONFLICTS

• When the war was over the U.S.
• and the Soviet Union were in a
• nuclear arms race

THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS

• In 1962 the U.S. Discovered thet
• the Soviet Union was secretly sending
• missiles to Cuba