Another Clash of Ideologies: The Cold War History 104 / April 19, 2013
The United Nations: an extension of the wartime alliance
The UN General Assembly: near-universal membership
The UN Security Council: the forum for consensus-building among the five permanent members
Harry S. Truman with George C. Marshall (soon to become Secretary of State)
The Marshall Plan: a loan program to kick-start Europe’s economies (participating countries written in yellow letters)
The Four Powers’ occupation zones in Germany
The Berlin Airlift
Communist victory in China, 1949 here: “Chairman Mao”
The Cold War turns hot (June 1950)
Landings at Inchon: the United Nations at war
The founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), April 1949
The Warsaw Pact is proclaimed (May 1955)
Europe divided into two alliances ( )
Sputnik: the first satellite in orbit (Oct. 1957)
Yuri Gagarin ( )
An inter-continental ballistic missile
John F. Kennedy with Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet premier, )
Building the Berlin Wall (1961)
Soviet missiles in Cuba (Oct.-Nov. 1962)