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The Aftermath of World War II The Cold War

Focus Question Why were the United States and the Soviet Union suspicious of each other after World War II, and what events between 1945 and 1949 heightened the tensions between the two nations? How and why did the Cold War become a global affair after 1949?

World War II in Europe

Big Three at Potsdam July 17 to August 2, 1945

July 16, :29am First A-Bomb

Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

POST-WAR REALITIES Emergence of the Superpowers –United States –Soviet Union The Bipolar World –Liberal Democracy/Capitalism –Marxist/Leninist Socialism/Communism Decolonization –90 nations gain independence between –Who will fill the void? –Alignment & non-alignment

Decolonization

Europe after WWII

Iron Curtain Speech At Westminster College Fulton MO March 5, 1946

Europe During the Cold War

The Ideological Struggle The Bipolar World Variations on the Enlightenment Tradition –Liberal Democracy/Capitalism Individual Rights & Individual Freedoms –Marxist/Leninist Socialism/Communism Collective Rights & Collective Freedom The Judaeo-Christian Tradition vs Religion as the “Opiate of the Masses”

The Munich Syndrome Neville Chamberlain Returns to England from Munich with “peace for our time”

The Munich Syndrome The Truman Doctrine The Marshall Plan Containment The Domino Theory – Eisenhower Mutually Assured Destruction Peaceful Co-existence

George C. Marshall Secretary of State Marshall Plan Billion

Berlin Airlift 22 June May 1949

July 16, :29am First A-Bomb

August 29, 1949 First Soviet A-bomb Test

The Arms Race

Europe During the Cold War

The China Issue Chairman Mao Victory over Chiang Kai-Shek, 1949 People’s Republic of China Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Mao & Nixon 1972

The Korean War Landing at Inchon Gen. Douglas MacArthur

The Munich Syndrome The Truman Doctrine The Marshall Plan Containment The Domino Theory – Eisenhower Mutually Assured Destruction Peaceful Co-existence

Sputnik and Space Race October 4, 1957

Berlin Wall Under Construction November 1961 In Later Stages

Fidel Castro 1926-present University Student Guerrilla Leader Castro and Khrushchev

Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

Cabinet Meeting at Height of Cuban Missile Crisis

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