Transcript Cold War

What countries were called
“super powers” following
WWII?
USA & USSR
In 1946, Winston Churchill
described this as coming down
across Europe. It separated the
nations in the “Soviet sphere”
from the capitalistic democracies
of the West
1946
The
Iron
Curtain
Countries that were in supposedly
independent but in actuality were
told what to do and how to do it
by the Soviet Union
Satellite States
The effort to block Soviet
influence by making alliances
and supporting weaker
nations.
1950: April 17
Containment
a policy set forth by the U.S.
President Harry S Truman stating
that the U.S. would support
Greece and Turkey with economic
and military aid to prevent their
falling into the Soviet sphere.
Historians often consider it as
the start of the Cold War.
1947, March 12th
Truman Doctrine
An economic and political power
struggle from 1945 to 1989
between the democratic
ideals of the United States and
the communist government of the
Soviet Union.
The Cold War
Why would it be called the
“Cold” War?
It was “cold” in that the
Soviet and U.S. armies never
directly fought each other.
Massive program of American aid
to help European nations rebuild
after World War II. Helped
solidify western European
opposition to the Soviet Union
1947, June
Marshall Plan
On May 14, 1948, at 4:00 p.m., the
leaders of the Jewish community in what
was then called Palestine gathered to
declare the establishment of an old/new
country. What was the country?
1948, May 14
Israel
One day after Israel had become
a nation, Egypt, Syria, Iraq,
Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi
Arabia declared
1948, May 15
War on Israel
American and British joint
effort to supply residents of
West Berlin with food and
other necessities after the
Soviet Union blockaded the
small, free enclave in the
middle of East Germany.
1948, June 24 – 1949, May 11th
Berlin
Airlift
In 1949, the United States and 11 other
Western nations to formed a defensive
alliance to protect Western Europe
against an invasion by the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union and its affiliated
Communist nations in Eastern Europe
founded a rival alliance in 1955. What
were these two alliances known as?
For two decades the Chinese
Nationalist government led by
Chiang Kai-shek opposed the
Communist forces led by this man
1945-1949
Mao Zedong
By 1949, Mao Zedong and the
Communists had chased Chiang
Kai-shek and the Nationalists to
this island off of China’s coast
Taiwan
At the end of World War II.
Japanese forces in Korea
surrendered to the Soviet Union
in the north and to the United
States in the South. Two nations
developed in Korea, they were
separated by this
The 38th Parallel
North Korea became this type
of nation
Communist
In June of 1950, North Korea
invaded
South Korea
The United Nations agreed to
help south Korea. Troops from 16
nations – most of them American –
were sent to South Korea. They
were led by this man
General Douglas MacArthur
A ceasefire went into effect in
1951. Dwight Eisenhower was
elected with a promise that he
would end the fighting. In 1953
an armistice was assigned which
established this a dividing line
between North and South Korea
38th Parallel
The United States and the Soviet
Union both began making more
and more nuclear weapons. The
nuclear build up by both sides
became known as this
The arms race
June 22, 1950-1953
1955
____________a defense treaty between
eight communist states in
Eastern Europe, which was
established at the USSR’s
initiative
May,1961
• May 1961 - President Kennedy sends 400 American
Green Beret 'Special Advisors' to South Vietnam
to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of
'counter-insurgency' in the fight against Viet Cong
guerrillas.
1961
1962
President Kennedy ordered the Soviets to remove their missiles and for several days the
world was on the brink of nuclear war. Eventually, the Soviet leadership “blinked” and
removed their missiles.
• In Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria,
Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo) gain
independence.
August 2nd, 1964
1975