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The Cold War. Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) The Yalta Conference and Soviet control of Eastern Europe.

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1 The Cold War

2 Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) The Yalta Conference and Soviet control of Eastern Europe

3 Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) Rivalry between the United States and the U.S.S.R. Democracy and the free enterprise system vs. dictatorship and communism

4 Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) President Truman and the Policy of Containment

5 Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) Eastern Europe –Soviet satellite nations –The Iron Curtain

6 Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vs. the Warsaw Pact

7 Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Korean Conflict

8 Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Vietnam War

9 Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Berlin and significance of Berlin Wall

10 Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Cuban Missile Crisis

11 Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Nuclear weapons and the theory of deterrence

12 Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1989- ) Soviet economic collapse Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries Tearing down of Berlin Wall

13 Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1989- ) Breakup of USSR Expansion of NATO

14 Containment Policy for preventing the expansion of communism

15 Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in China Division of China into two nations at the end of the Chinese civil war Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)- Nationalist China (island of Taiwan)

16 Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in China Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong)- Communist China (mainland China) Continuing conflict between the two Chinas Communist China’s participation in Korean Conflict

17 Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam Role of French imperialism Leadership of Ho Chi Minh

18 Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam Vietnam as a divided nation Influence of policy of containment

19 Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam The United States and the Vietnam War –Political cartoon by John Frith The Herald, June 1968 from the National Library of Australia

20 Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam Vietnam as a reunited communist country today


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