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1 The Cold War

2 What is it? Cold = tensions Tension b/w USA & Soviet Union
Democracy v. Communism Almost war

3 Alliances NATO: US, France, Great Britain, Canada, & 8 other European nations Warsaw Pact: USSR & Eastern Europe

4 Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill
Means the world is split in two: West & East Not an actual curtain—METAPHOR

5 Berlin Airlift Germany divided after WWII
USSR blocks Allies from Berlin Fly in supplies Eventually build Berlin Wall Photo: Berlin Airlift newsreel

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7 Arms Race We have nukes; they want nukes They get nukes
We get nervous. We build better nukes. (H-Bomb) They build better nukes. We threaten each other with our nukes: Mutually Assured Destruction We agree not to blow each other up…but keep our hands hovered over the BIG RED BUTTON…just in case. Mushroom Cloud: Newsreel of H-Bomb explosion in Bikini Atoll

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9 Cuban Missile Crisis USSR puts nuclear weapons in Cuba
USA threatens to attack 13 days of tension—USSR agrees to back off Almost nuclear WW3 Map of Nuclear Range: NBC coverage of CMC

10 Space Race USA & USSR want beat each other into space
Maybe send weapons? Shows who is powerful USSR: first satellite (Sputnik), first animal (dog) & man into space (Yuri Gagarin) USA: first man to land on the moon Sputnik Picture: newsreel

11 Moon landing video

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13 Cold War Heats Up in Asia
China becomes communist seen as “lost” North Korean tries to become communist  Korean War  UN & US involvement  Korea divides into North and South N. Vietnam tries to become communist  US gets involved Vietnam war lasts 10+ years  US withdraws in 1970s all of Vietnam falls to communism

14 Collapse of USSR Gorbachev comes to power in USSR, allows freedoms
Reagan: anti-communist, calls for fall of Berlin Wall—symbol of freedom Torn down in 1989

15 Collapse of USSR USSR loses territory, people rebel
Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 Flag: news, end of ussr

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