1. WELCOME BACK

2. The normal rate of forgetting new information is broadly 80% in 24 hours (red line).
The easiest way to keep high levels of recall is through persistent use of re cap. Eventually this new information becomes hardwired to the brain.

3. Edgar Dale’s Cone of Learning

4. THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
Lobj: to understand what the Cold War was and consider who was to blame for starting it.

5. WHEN YOU THINK OF WAR – WHAT DO YOU THINK OF?
Write down 5 ideas

6. All of those ideas are not true of this war....
The Cold War was a conflict between the two Super Power countries of the time – USA & Russia (USSR)
This conflict never broke out into fighting (a hot war)
But..both sides used every weapon short of actual warfare to attack each other (verbal, competitions etc)

7. What was the U.S.S.R. or Soviet Union?
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the U.S.S.R. or Soviet Union for short) consisted of Russia and....
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldovia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan.

9. C.C.C.P ? THE SAME THING – USSR, SOVIET UNION OR CCCP
In Russian the CCCP is Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик

10. WHY?
The sides (USA v USSR) believed in running their countries in different ways:
These ideas are called an IDEOLOGY

11. COMMUNISM - USSR A one party state (Communists) No free elections
All industry & agriculture was state owned
Led by Joseph Stalin – a totalitarian dictator
Labour camps

12. CAPITALISM – USA & GB
Democratic – people can vote for more than one political party
Industry & agriculture were in private ownership and ran for PROFIT

13. USSR v USA USSR believed the USA wanted to destroy Communism
USA believed the USSR wanted to make the world Communist – they were worried something called the Domino theory

14. THE END OF WW2 & THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR
Before WW2 ended the ‘big 3’ met together:
Yalta
Potsdam
There were open tensions and disagreements
There were Communist governments coming to power in Eastern Europe – with help from Stalin

15. YALTA – Feb 1945
Churchill (GB) Roosevelt (USA) Stalin (Russia)

16. Tensions grow
1946 – Churchill said that these Communist Eastern Europe Governments were an IRON CURTAIN between the democratic West and Communist East
Stalin regarded this as a declaration of War

18. Tensions grow
Even though the USA possessed the atomic bomb and the better army, President Truman decided he had to CONTAIN Communism
gave away lots of money to help Western Europe recover from WW2 and stay away from Communism
Stalin made the Communist countries join his own ‘club’ - Cominform

19. The Cold War
1947 – 48 : Stalin tried to cut off West Berlin from the West – and GB & USA had to supply Berlin by air
Almost led to nuclear war
Korean War ( ) made war even closer – by then the USSR had the atomic bomb

20. THE ATOMIC & HYDROGEN BOMBS
These bombs STRANGELY made the world safer
Neither side would use them – in case of nuclear retaliation
Could mean both countries wiped out
Theory was called MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction