Yalta Conference
July 1945 Potsdam Conference
Germany Broken Up Germany Split 4 zones British (pink) US (yellow) 1945 Germany Broken Up Austria, too land given to Poland/USSR later becomes East and West Germany Germany Split 4 zones British (pink) US (yellow) French (blue) Soviet (green)
Churchill and the Iron Curtain 1946 Churchill and the Iron Curtain
Containment and Truman Doctrine 1947 Containment and Truman Doctrine
1947-48 The Berlin Airlift
Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan 1947 Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan
NATO and the Warsaw Pact 1949 NATO and the Warsaw Pact
The Bomb USA A-Bomb 1945 USSR A-Bomb 1949 USA H-Bomb 1952 USSR H-Bomb 1953 The Bomb
1947 CIA and KGB
Iran, Mossadegh and the Shah 1953 Iran, Mossadegh and the Shah Misleading, huh?
China and the Korean War 1949(China) 1950-53(Korea) China and the Korean War Mao Zedong Chiang Kai Shek (Jiang Jieshi) Douglas MacArthur Kim Il-Sung (Jong-Il)
Dulles, Eisenhower, MAD and Brinksmanship
Living Happily with Nuclear Holocaust
1957 Sputnik Yuri Gagarin US Reaction 1st man on the moon
1959 The Kitchen Debates
1961
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Domino Theory and Vietnam 1964-1973 Domino Theory and Vietnam
Bay of Pigs 1961 Invasion of Hungary 1956 U2 shot down 1960 Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968 Invasion of Afghanistan 1979 “freedom fighters” dictators
Détente 1989 Nixon Sino-Soviet Split “Opening” of China Détente with the Soviet Union
The End 1989-91 Solidarity Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika Glasnost Ronald Reagan Fall of the Berlin Wall Dissolution of the Soviet Union