Analyzing Cold War Cartoons
How much tension did these Cold War events cause? p. 192 On the brink of war “sizzling hot” Medium hot Simmering on low heat “mild”
Ernest Bevin - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Great Britain Molotov – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Clement Richard Attlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain,
Harry Truman, President of the United States, Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the Soviet Union
General Douglas MacArthur - United Nations Command (Korea),
Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator, Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President,
In 1957, Laika became the first animal launched into orbit, paving the way for human spaceflight. This photograph shows her in a flight harness.
Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union,
John F. Kennedy, U.S. President,
Kennedy and Khrushchev