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1 Another Clash of Ideologies: The Cold War History 104 / April 19, 2013

2 The United Nations: an extension of the wartime alliance

3 The UN General Assembly: near-universal membership

4 The UN Security Council: the forum for consensus-building among the five permanent members

5 Harry S. Truman with George C. Marshall (soon to become Secretary of State)

6 The Marshall Plan: a loan program to kick-start Europe’s economies (participating countries written in yellow letters)

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9 The Four Powers’ occupation zones in Germany

10 The Berlin Airlift 1948-49

11 Communist victory in China, 1949 here: “Chairman Mao”

12 The Cold War turns hot (June 1950)

13 Landings at Inchon: the United Nations at war

14 The founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), April 1949

15 The Warsaw Pact is proclaimed (May 1955)

16 Europe divided into two alliances (1955-1990)

17 Sputnik: the first satellite in orbit (Oct. 1957)

18 Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968)

19 An inter-continental ballistic missile

20 John F. Kennedy with Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet premier, 1953-1964)

21 Building the Berlin Wall (1961)

22 Soviet missiles in Cuba (Oct.-Nov. 1962)

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