1. The Cold War:

2. What’s the term mean?
“Cold War” refers to the era, , of extreme tension between the U.S. and its allies and the Soviet Union and its Allies.

3. Today’s Outcomes:
What was “The Iron Curtain” and why did it emerge after 1945?
What are some key Cold War terms?
HW: How did the Cold War begin?

4. Iron Curtain
In a speech in Missouri, Churchill first articulates the division of Europe

5. What did Churchill mean?
“Iron Curtain” is a metaphor—Churchill meant the invisible line that divided communist Europe and (mostly) democratic Europe

6. Vocab Term
Those nations behind the Iron Curtain—Poland, Hungary, East Germany, etc.—are called satellite nations
Why?

7. To U.S. President Truman and the West, this “Iron Curtain” represents a betrayal
At the Yalta conference in 1945, Stalin had implied he’d allow elections in nations occupied by his forces

8. Is Stalin pulling a Trotsky?
That is, is he attempting to spread Communism beyond Russia’s borders—that “Permanent Revolution” stuff?

9. Or was Stalin’s motive defensive?
Russia had always faced enemies from the West. Stalin may have been determined that next war be fought in Poland or Germany, and not in a U.S.S.R. that had just lost 22 million people

10. More Cold War vocab

11. Containment
The policy first enunciated by President Truman: America will stop the spread of communism through diplomacy, military and economic aid to nations threatened by communism

12. “Client Wars”
Will be a hallmark of containment: The two sides fight indirectly in third countries: Against China in Korea; against China and the Soviet Union in Vietnam

13. Flashpoints

14. BERLIN

15. CUBA

16. East Asia

17. And even South Asia
Where we supplied and funded Muslim fedayeen, like this one, fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan

18. The Arms Race

19. A space race

20. Espionage

21. A propaganda war: A North Korean poster; an American film

22. A children’s war…

23. Would this be those children’s future?