1. ONLY TWO WINNERS IN WORLD WAR II: UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION
COLD WAR – Burning Heart - Nikita
ONLY TWO WINNERS IN WORLD WAR II:
UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION
Nikita

2. ONLY TWO WINNERS IN WORLD WAR II: UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION
COLD WAR
ONLY TWO WINNERS IN WORLD WAR II:
UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION
The US post-war goals:
... encourage the growth of democracy
... gain access to European markets
... rebuild Europe
... reunite Germany

3. ONLY TWO WINNERS IN WORLD WAR II: UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION
COLD WAR
ONLY TWO WINNERS IN WORLD WAR II:
UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION
The US post-war goals:
... encourage the growth of democracy
... gain access to European markets
... rebuild Europe
... reunite Germany
The USSR post-war goals:
… control eastern Europe
… encourage the growth of communism
… rebuild the USSR
… keep Germany divided

4. COLD WAR The Cold War divided the world in half
Those allied with the US
Those allied with the USSR (Soviet Union)

5. not allowing communism spread
“Containment”
not allowing communism spread
1946

6. not allowing communism spread had fallen across Europe
“Containment”
not allowing communism spread
1946
“Iron Curtain”
had fallen across Europe
– Winston Churchill, 1946

8. To prevent the spread of Soviet Communism
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II
To prevent the spread of Soviet Communism

9. Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine
American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II
To prevent the spread of Soviet Communism
March 12, American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Would lead to the formation of NATO

10. Germany Berlin Blockade and Airlift 1948 - 49

11. Germany Berlin Blockade and Airlift 1948 - 49
the Soviet Union blocked the railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control
Their aim was to become the supplier of
food, fuel, and aid to Berlin

12. United Nations Founded in order to avoid conflict.
United States, Soviet Union, China, France, and Great Britain
Permanent seats with veto power
Security Council decides on peace keeping operations

13. United Nations The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Today the United Nations has expanded:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“a common standard of Achievement…”

14. NATO COLD WAR ALLIANCES
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1949
Western Democratic nations allied with one another
to provided collective security.

15. Warsaw Pact COLD WAR ALLIANCES NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
western Democratic nations allied with one another and provided collective security.
Warsaw Pact
1955
USSR and its allies’ answer to NATO
United the communist countries of Eastern Europe

16. Arms Race

17. Arms Race “Brinkmanship” Trim the Army and Navy Expand the Air Force
Buildup of nuclear bombs
The Soviet Union followed suit

18. John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
The Berlin Wall (Germany)
Germans were escaping the Communist East
Nikita Khrushchev wanted to stop the flood of people

19. John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
The Berlin Wall (Germany)
Germans were escaping the Communist East
Nikita Khrushchev wanted to stop the flood of people
The Berlin Wall was constructed
It became the symbol of Communist oppression

20. John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
October, 1962
Soviet Union begins to move nuclear missiles into Cuba
the Decision
F-8 Fighters take pictures

21. John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
October, 1962
Soviet Union begins to move nuclear missiles into Cuba
Kennedy tells Khrushchev and Fidel Castro (Cuba) to remove them…or else.

22. John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
October, 1962
After 13 days the USSR began to remove the missiles
The United States and the Soviet Union were hours away from Nuclear War.

23. The Cuban Missile Crisis

24. “Duck and Cover”
Fall Out Shelters

25. Cold War Music Salvadoran Civil War Bullet the Blue Sky –U2
originally written about the United States' military intervention during the 1980s in the Salvadoran Civil War
Cold War Events
"We Didn't Start the Fire" - Billy Joel
Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song was also a No. 1 hit in the United States.