1. Post WWII and Cold War

2. The Cold War F Potsdam Conference –Stalin, ________________ F Iron Curtain F _____________ Policy F __________ Doctrine

3. Cold War (continued) F Marshall Plan F _______ Blockade (1948-49) –________ airlift F NATO / Warsaw Pact F Red Scare F _______________ -Joseph McCarthy

4. War in Korea F 38 th Parallel –__________ Korea... Communist –__________ Korea.... Dictatorial (US support) F North invades South 1950 F ________ Invasion... MacArthur F Chinese Intervention

5. End of Korea Conflict F Truman fires ___________ F Armistice (July 1953) –Cease Fire –______________ Zone –“Someone else’s War”

6. F Eisenhower elected... 52,56 F Nuclear Age –Nikita Khrushchev –______________... Francis Gary Powers F SuperPowers and _______ World Countries

7. The Kennedy Era F Election of 1960 F _________________ 1961 –Kennedy’s Big Blunder F _________________ 1962 –Kennedy’s Big Victory

8. Kennedy’s Assassination F Nov 22, 1963...Dallas TX F Suspect... __________________ F Oswald killed by Jack Ruby F ___________ Commission F Lyndon B. Johnson...new Pres.

9. Space Race F Sputnik 1957 F “Mercury Seven” –____________...first man in space –Alan Shepard...first American –___________...first Amer. to orbit –Neil Armstrong...first on Moon u Apollo 11...July 1969