Transcript The 1940`s - coldwarnphs

By: Emily, Corinne, Alyssia, Alexandrea
 Was
the president at the beginning of the
great depression “The only thing we have to
fear is fear itself”
 Born on 1882 at Hyde Park now is New York
Harvard University and Columbia Law School
 1905 Married Eleanor Roosevelt on St.
Patrick's day
 Age 39 he got polio (spinal cord is damaged)
couldn’t use his legs
 Elected
president in November of 1932
 Tennessee Valley Authority brought recovery
to business and agricultures
 When Pearl Harbor was attacked he
organized the Nations manpower and
resources
 Also planned a lot for the Untied Nations
while at war he became sicker and died of
bleeding in his brain
Atomic Bomb
 June
1942 the war departments army corps
of engineers took charge of the effort to
develop an atomic bomb
 The bombs had two names one was “little
boy” the other was “fat man”
 August 6th 1945 a B-29 names Enola Gay
dropped the atomic bomb named “little boy”
on Hiroshima.
 About
one hundred and thirty thousand
Japanese men, women, and children were
killed, wounded, or disappeared.
 Ninety percent of the city lay in ruin on
August 9th a B-29 named Bock Scar dropped
“fat man” on Nagasaki causing a estimated
seventy five thousand casualties
*Joseph was the head of the USSR from 19241953.
*1912 he went to St. Petersburg and he was
elected the party’s central committee
*Nationalism was revived as socialism in the
country.
*Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, and others were
charged with conspiracy to over throw the
regime they confessed and were executed.
* When Stalin died he was buried by Lenin.
Nike Missiles
It was introduced in 1945.
 The Nike missiles were made to block attacks
from enemy bombers.
 They also used them as a “last ditch” line of air
defense.
 There were three types of Nike Missiles
 Ajax
 Hercules
 Zeus
 It was 21 feet long and it traveled at the speed
of sound.
 The original one was called the Nike Ajax.
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 Wanted
to rebuild Germany after world war
two
 Allies formed the agreement at Potsdam to
rebuild Germany
 The US and UK controlled the west side the
Soviet Union controlled the east side
 He
was the 32nd president
 Worked as a time keeper for a railroad
construction contractor and it was near by
Kansas City
 Worked in a national bank
 Joined the Missouri national guard in 1905
and was discharged as a corporal in 1911
 When world war one entered the U.S. in 1917
he helped organize the second regiment of
Missouri field Artillery which was called into
federal service as the 129th field Artillery
End Of World War Two
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Cold War began after World War Two ended
The US, Britain, France, and Russia all had
their own ideas and ways to rebuild Europe
Cold War started from not one event but
many events
 Began
in 1945 after the collapse of Germany
 Divided into four zones
 each nation controlled a zone
 Germany was divided into two parts East and
West Germany
 East Germany built the Berlin wall to keep
people from going West
 East Germans wanted to go west because
their was more freedom there
 Started
December 19,1946 to august 1,1954
 There was a estimated 6,000 to 20,000
casualties for the Vietnamese
 March of 1945 Japan launched the second
Indo china Campaign
 1949 France had officially recognized the
“independence” of the state of Vietnam and
it was within the French Union and they were
Bao Dai
 France still had controlled all of the defense
issues also all foreign relations as Vietnam
was an independent state within the French
Union
 The
UFO was illegally crashed near Roswell,
NM
 There was a press release written by lt.
Walter G. Haunt
 Public relations officer at the Roswell army
air field was sent to the two local radio
stations and newspapers
 The
United states said that they would
rebuild the continent to get the world
economy healthy.
 General Marshall won the Nobel peace prize
 George C. Marshall was assisting in restoring
the economics of Europe.
 June
24,1948 threw May 11,1949
 The Soviet Union blocked the three western
powers
 Main cause of the Berlin blockade was the
cold war
 It was just another event in the “Cold War”
between the superpowers
 The US and the USSR both has different
reasons why they wanted to control Germany
 The USSR wanted to destroy Germany
 The US wanted to rebuild Germany
The Berlin Airlift
Germany divided into four zones Britain, France,
US, and the Soviet Union
 West wanted to have two separate governments
 Western powers had a airlift that lifted
2,326,206 tons of food, coal, passengers, and
some other things
 Took 278,228 flights to take all of those things to
the city
 United States gave it a new nick name called
“Operation Vittles” and the British called in the
“plain fare”
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 The
soviets thought that would have made a
war or they would of failed
 Planes would have to fly all the time a plane
would be taking off and landing every ninety
seconds
 There were thirty two aircrafts in the air at
the same time
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
• August 29,1949 the first atomic bomb was exploded
by the soviet union
• The United States had two atomic bombs exploded
on Japan and that was what made Japan surrender
• Known as the “First Lightening” to Russians and
Americans
• The yield to the atomic bomb was the same as the
bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki four years
earlier
 The
U.S. intelligence believed that the Soviet
Union was at least several years away from
being able to explode a nuclear device
 President Truman had revolted on the U.S. by
calling for the U.S. to build up conventional
and nuclear weapons to halt the spread of
the Soviets influences around the globe
H-bomb Development Summary
• The H-Bomb is also known as the Hydrogen
bomb.
• The U.S. thought is was very dangerous to test
the Hydrogen bomb in the U.S.
• Other people also used the H-Bomb like Great
Britain, France and China.
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