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1 The Cold War 1945-1991

2 Important Terms of Cold War

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5 New Leaders: 8 Future Presidents were veterans of WWII

6 POSTWAR PLANS UNITED NATIONS FORMED, JUNE 1945 – International organization intended to protect members against aggression – Based in New York – General Body and a Security Council made up of 11 nations – (5 permanent  USA, USSR, CHINA, GB, FRANCE)

7 United Nations

8 CCOT CAP 262-272 Strayer Chapter 22 How did the Cold War manifest itself from an economic and political position from 1945 to the present? The Cold War dominated much of American and Soviet foreign and domestic policy during the latter-half of the twentieth century.

9 RIVAL ALLIANCES NATO Nations promised to meet an attack on a NATO member with armed force WARSAW PACT Soviet alliance system as part of their own containment policy SOME COUNTRIES STAYED OUT OF THE ALLIANCES LIKE INDIA & CHINA

10 After World War II, the world changed! Many countries became communist after World War 2 including: -Czechoslovakia (1948) -Poland (1947) -Hungary (1947) -China (1949) -Cuba (1959) -North Korea (1945)

11 Harry Truman

12 1.Berlin Wall 2.Berlin Airlift 3.Nuclear Bomb 4.Nuclear drills 5.Fallout Shelters 6.Korean War 7.Napalm 8.Vietnam War 9.Fall of Saigon 10.My Lai Massacre 11.Cuban Missile Crisis 12.Bay of Pigs invasion 13.Nixon visits China 14.Kennedy and the Cold War 15.Khrushchev 16.Stalin 17.Glasnost and Perestroika 18.Solidarity 19.Tiananmen Square 20.Sputnik 21.The Space Race 22.Man lands on the Moon 23.U2 plane

13 USA POLICY Truman thinks it’s time to stop “appeasing” the Soviets…new policy CONTAINMENT – Directed at blocking Soviet influence and expansion of communism

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23 Harry Truman Douglas MacArthur

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25 Vietnam War 1960-1965

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