Cold War Hits US, Central America, Europe, and Asia

WARS OF IDEOLOGY

Communist Country in the

Making

“A journey of a

thousand miles

begins with a

single step”

– Chinese saying

Occupation of Germany

Cold War Begins: Negotiating the End of WWII

Occupation of Japan

Cold War Begins: Iron Curtain

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Q1. What two countries did the US and their WWII allies occupy after WWII?

COLD WAR BEGINSBerlin Blockade and Airlift

NATO

Cold War Begins: Seeking Security

Arms Race

Above: NATO member countries in 1949

Right: Fallout shelters were built in fear of a nuclear attack, you can see

the signs from this time period today. Click here to see the video

kids watched in school to prepare

Cold War Begins: Korean War

Cold War Heats Up

Berlin Wall

Above: Building of the Berlin Wall in August of 1961Left: Completed Berlin Wall in front of the

Brandenburg Gate

Cold War Heats Up: Hungarian Revolt

Hungarians gather around a

toppled head of a Stalin

Monument

Click here to listen to testimony of a man who lived through the revolt

Mission: Space

Cold War Heats UpChina’s Great Leap Forward

Left: Scientist working on Sputnik before its launch into space

Above: Propaganda poster for steel production, “Take steel as the principle, lead forward in all fields.”

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Q2. What was the Space Race? Who was the first country to have a satellite in

space?

COLD WAR HEATS UPCuban Missile Crisis

Cold War Heats Up: China’s Cultural Revolution

Above: Propaganda poster

Far Left: Students pledging allegiance to Zedong

Left: Cultural Revolution propaganda poster that depicts Mao Zedong above a group of soldiers called the Peoples Liberation Army with the caption “The People’s Liberation Army of China is a great school for Mao Zedong Thought.”

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Q3. Who led China’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution?

COLD WAR HEATS UPWar in Vietnam

Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia

Cold War Heats Up

Man on the Moon

Left: Life covers the story of the Soviets crushing the “Prague Spring”Top Left: Czech youngsters holding Czechoslovakian flags stand atop of an overturned truck as other Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in downtown Prague, Aug. 21, 1968Right: Neil Armstrong is the first man on the Moon

Cold War Comes to an

End

Helsinki Accords

Détente

Soviets Invade

Afghanistan

Above: Nixon visits Brezhnev in the Soviet UnionFar Left: Time Magazine depicts détente with Ford and BrezhnevLeft: Soviet tanks enter Afghanistan

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Q4. What does détente mean? How was it good for the Cold War?

Summit Diplomacy

Cold War Comes to an End: Changes in the Soviet Union

Berlin Wall Falls, Gorbachev Resigns

US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev

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Q5. Which American and Soviet leader practiced summit diplomacy in the

1980s?

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Slide 8 users.erols.com archives.gov sydwalker.info

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Slide 11 mentallandscape.com en.wikipedia.org

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Slide 14 wikipedia.org members.fortunecity.com yesnet.yk.ca

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Slide 17 soviethammer.info discussions.mnhs.org inspiremykids.com

Slide 18 wikipedia.org historyspalding.blogspot.com

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