1. THE COLD WAR
How can a war be ‘cold’?
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2. SS6H7
The student will explain conflict and change in Europe to the 21st century.
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3. Essential Question
Why did the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the world’s two “superpowers”?
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4. It’s Cold Out There!
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5. had been conquered by Germany.
At the end of World War II, the Allied armies freed all the nations in Western Europe that
had been conquered by Germany.
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6. Then the allies left Europe.
They helped them form new governments, and gave them money to rebuild their cities.
Then the allies left Europe.
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7. Things were different, however, in Eastern Europe.
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8. Soviet troops moved into countries like Poland, Romania, Hungary, and the eastern half of Germany and set up a political system known as
COMMUNISM.
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9. Government controls everything
COMMUNISM:
Government controls everything
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10. After the war, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world’s two “superpowers” with the military and political strength to influence worldwide events.
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11. country dominant in military and political strength
SUPERPOWERS:
country dominant in military and political strength
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12. Distrust developed between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The U.S. did not like the way the Soviets were expanding their territory.
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13. The two countries had different beliefs and political systems, and both of them stockpiled weapons in case of war.
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14. These feelings grew into a state of tension called the “Cold War”
because it never involved fighting.
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15. tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
COLD WAR:
tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
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16. The “Iron Curtain” Falls
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17. People living in countries controlled by the Soviet Union
COULD NOT LEAVE.
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18. Armed guards watched over the borders.
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19. In a 1946 speech, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warned that an “Iron Curtain” had fallen across the continent of Europe.
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20. dividing line between Eastern and Western Europe
IRON CURTAIN:
dividing line between Eastern and Western Europe
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21. IRON
CURTAIN
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