1.  starter activity
By the 1970s the US and the USSR each had enough nuclear weapons to blow the world up several times over. Can you explain this cartoonist’s joke?

2. Characteristics of Cold War
Suspicions between capitalists & communists
Propaganda
Espionage
Nuclear arms race
Space race

3. Why did the wartime alliance breakdown?
Background to the Cold War

4. Steps to the political, economic and military division of Europe

5. The Breakdown of the Grand Alliance
STEP 1: The Wartime Conferences
Note the changes of personnel
TEHRAN
YALTA (Churchill ) (Roosevelt)
POTSDAM (Truman) (Atlee)
What was agreed at each?

6. STEP 2 Kennan’s Long Telegram- 1946
Soviet view of the world was one of insecurity
Soviet path was one of Stalinism rather than Marxism
Cruelty and repression of the Soviet system

7. Step 3- The Iron Curtain Speech

8. Step 4- The Truman Doctrine

9. Step 5- The Marshall Plan

10. Step 6- Red Army Occupation of Europe 45-47

11. Step 7 Czechoslovakian Coup

12. Step 8- The Berlin Crisis of 1948

13. Who was responsible for the Cold War?

14. Orthodox View- ‘Soviets to blame’
Revisionist View – US ‘Dollar Diplomacy’
Post Revisionist View- Misperceptions on both sides- ‘action and reaction’ –both sides ‘improvising’
Soviet View
Balance of Power v Ideology

15. Key events 1945, Yalta & Potsdam conferences
Berlin Wall – last days
1945, Yalta & Potsdam conferences
Soviet expansion in E. Europe
1946, Iron Curtain
1947, Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
1949, NATO
1955, Warsaw Pact
1961, Berlin Wall
1962, Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile
Crisis