1. The Cold War Battle Over a Bi-Polar World

2. WWII: Aftermath Look on page 489…Which nation lost the most soldiers? Which lost the most civilians? Compare US losses to those of other nations. Both Germany and Japan were nearly completely destroyed. –Millions homeless, lack of basic necessities

3. Tokyo Trials: Japanese war criminals tried & executed.

5. Japanese Constitution

6. YALTA (in the USSR) Date: Feb 1945 Present: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

7. Yalta Conference Feb 1945 FDR, Stalin, Churchill Discuss the fate of Post war Germany and Eastern Europe Germany divided into four parts Eastern Europe given to Soviets Decided to create the United Nations

8. The Soviets Build a Buffer Zone Eastern Europe becomes a “buffer zone” for the Soviet Union These “Satellite” nations –Controlled by USSR –Communists (few freedoms) –Rebuilt by USSR

9. Nuremberg Trials: Nazi War criminals tried & executed.

10. Occupation Unlike WWI because… US, Britain, France and the Soviet Union occupy Germany (and Berlin) The US occupies Japan (run by Gen MacArthur) Germany and Japan are no longer allowed to have an Army.

11. The United Nations: Peacekeeping World Gov. created after WWII.

12. UN Brain Pop

13. United Nations is formed April 1945- U.S. and Soviet Union set aside their differences Goal: Protect Nations from aggression 50 nation pledge to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”

14. The United Nations Peacekeeping Organization Security Council- Britain, China, France, The United States, and the Soviet Union— Veto Power Ban Ki-Moon

15. Cold War Brain Pop

16. Truman Doctrine Stop the spread of communism Provide aid to nations facing communist takeovers It signalled the end of “isolationist” policies. “would support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”

17. Marshall Plan: $13 billion to rebuild Western Europe “Iron Curtain”

20. The Berlin Airlift: Dropping of supplies into SU blockaded Berlin.

21. NATO: Anti-communist military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

22. SEATO CENTO

23. Organization of American States

24. The Soviet Alliance Sees NATO as a threat Created the Warsaw Pact –Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania

25. The Bi-Polar World

26. Arms Race Timeline 1945-US tests first Atomic Bomb & drops two A-Bombs on Japan 1949-The Soviet A-Bomb 1952-U.S. tests hydrogen bomb (H-Bomb) 750 times stronger than Hiroshima bomb 1952-UK test first A-Bomb 1953-Soviet Union tests hydrogen bomb 1950’s both the US and Soviet Union created ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles), goes 8,000 miles 1957-UK: H-Bomb 1960-France: A-Bomb 1960: Polaris Submarines (can launch ICBM) created 1964-China: A-Bomb Today India, Pakistan and North Korea have also tested nuclear weapons

27. Space Race 1957-The Soviet Union launches the first man made satellite Sputnik into space (US creates NASA) 1961- The Soviets launch first human to orbit the earth 1962- US astronaut 1969- US lands on the moon 1971- Soviets make the first manned space station 1981- US builds the first space shuttle

28. Korean War

53. Kennedy’s United States 1)An air strike to destroy the missile sites, anti- aircraft units and the Soviet-Cuban military power. 2)An all-out invasion of Cuba to destroy the missiles and overthrow Fidel Castro’s Communist Gov. 3)A naval blockade to prevent Soviet arms shipments to Cuba, combined with a demand that the USSR remove all their military units or face a nuclear attack from the United States.