1. Yalta Conference

2. July 1945
Potsdam Conference

3. Germany Broken Up Germany Split 4 zones British (pink) US (yellow)
1945
Germany Broken Up
Austria, too
land given to Poland/USSR
later becomes East and West Germany
Germany Split
4 zones
British (pink)
US (yellow)
French (blue)
Soviet (green)

4. Churchill and the Iron Curtain
1946
Churchill and the Iron Curtain

5. Containment and Truman Doctrine
1947
Containment and Truman Doctrine

6.
The Berlin Airlift

7. Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan
1947
Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan

8. NATO and the Warsaw Pact
1949
NATO and the Warsaw Pact

9. The Bomb USA A-Bomb 1945 USSR A-Bomb 1949 USA H-Bomb 1952
USSR H-Bomb 1953
The Bomb

10. 1947
CIA and KGB

11. Iran, Mossadegh and the Shah
1953
Iran, Mossadegh and the Shah
Misleading, huh?

12. China and the Korean War
1949(China) (Korea)
China and the Korean War
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai Shek (Jiang Jieshi)
Douglas MacArthur
Kim Il-Sung (Jong-Il)

13. Dulles, Eisenhower, MAD and Brinksmanship

14. Living Happily with Nuclear Holocaust

15. 1957
Sputnik
Yuri Gagarin
US Reaction
1st man on the moon

16. 1959
The Kitchen Debates

17. 1961

18. 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis

19. Domino Theory and Vietnam
Domino Theory and Vietnam

20. Bay of Pigs 1961
Invasion of Hungary 1956
U2 shot down 1960
Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968
Invasion of Afghanistan 1979
“freedom fighters”
dictators

21. Détente 1989 Nixon Sino-Soviet Split “Opening” of China
Détente with the Soviet Union

22. The End 1989-91 Solidarity Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika Glasnost
Ronald Reagan
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Dissolution of the Soviet Union