the Cold War

Yalta Conference 1945

Yalta conference

• Leaders met to decide the fate of Germany
• Began the conflict between East vs West and Capitalism vs Communism
• This conflict pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear war

Atomic bomb 1945

atomic bomb

• The US dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan
• Ended WWII
• The world witnessed the power of these weapons

winston churchill 1946

iron curtain

• Pres. Harry S. Truman introduced Churchill
• Speech given at Westminster College in Missouri
• Churchill states "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent."

cold war map 1950

Marshall plan 1947

marshall PLan 1947

• Designed to help promote economic recovery in Europe after WII
• Nearly $13 billion was sent to Europe in 1948-1952
• Photo: painting logo on machine that was sent to Europe

berlin airlift 1948-49

Berlin airlift

• Soviet Union wanted West Berlin to be Communist
• It blockaded Berlin from Western countries
• The US and Great Britain wanted to keep West Berlin as capitalist
• They airlifted 1.5 million tons of supplies into West Berlin for 11 months
• A total of 200,000 flights
• Soviet Union ended the blockade in 1949

sino-soviet treaty-1949

Sino-Soviet Treaty

• Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin negotiated and signed a treaty
• Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance

NATO 1949

NATO 1949

• President Truman signed the North Atlantic Treaty
• Requested $400 million in aid from Congress to stop communism in Greece and Turkey
• "The Truman Doctrine" was a policy to aid (help) any nation threatened by communism

Korean War 1950

Korean War 1950

• Communist North Korea invaded South Korea
• Pres. Truman orders American forces to assist South Korea
• 3 yrs later an armistice is signed (stop fighting)
• The border between North and South hardly changed
• No peace treaty..so..war continues

The Rosenbergs 1951

The Rosenbergs 1951

• Julius and Ethel are accused and found guilty of spying for the Soviet Union and giving up US secrets
• They are put to death in the electric chair in 1953
• Americans become more afraid of communists

Sen. Joseph McCarthy

The Warsaw Pact

Sputnik

Fidel Castro - Cuba

Kruschev

Berlin Wall

Pres. John F. Kennedy

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

Gulf of Tonkin

Vietnam War

Cold war

Czech

Moon landing

Nixon and Mao

Carter and Brezhnev

Reagan and Gorbachev

Reagan in berlin

Russia invades afghanistan

berlin wall falls

boris yeltsin