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Yalta
The "Big Three" allied leaders , American president Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill met at the Yalta Conference to make arrangements for the postwar world order.The agreements included a declaration to respect democracy throughout Europe, but also to recognize the Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. At Yalta the Allies also finalize plans to divide Germany into separate zones of occupation(East and West). -
Winston churchill May 10 1940 (bio #1)
Churchill was the prime minister of Britain. Winston served in the British military before going into politics.Led Britain during WWII to defeat the Axis powers and craft post-war peace. He was the figure that lead British out of the hard ships they had just went through in World War ll.He allied himself with President Roosevelt and was a powerhouse in many of the Allied conferences.He was referred to as the "Bulldog". -
The "Iron Curtain"
Stalin did not allow free elections which was a violation of those countries rights so the U.S decided to fight in favor of those countries. In speech inn early 1946, Stalin declared that communism and capitalism could not exist in the same world.It became East and West..Germany was completley split, the east was run by the soviets creating a communist side and the west was a Democratic Republic.Churchill decided to phrase this as the "Iron Curtain". -
Truman Doctarine
After World War 2 the president at the time (Truman) decided he wanted to stop communist nations from spreading and decided to defend all those who opposed communism. He created this as a way for the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. Which bassically was a sign of war for the Soviets being they were communist. -
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Cold War
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Soviets make an impact
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia.President Eduard Benes allowed a communist-dominated government to be organized. The Soviet Union did not physically go into their territory and fight them to become communist. It was a bloodless communist transformation it was an example of Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe. -
Soviets fight back
The Berlin Airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allies part of Berlin to force/starve the population into converting to the Soviet alliance. The blockade was the soviet attempt to starve the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was an important event in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. The allies response was to keep strong and send foods/goods almost every night to keep the people from feeling hopeless. -
Nato is formed
In 1949, the communist expansion made the United States and 11 other Western nations to form a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Those countries would ally themselves and protect each other against communist countries. -
Russia wanted to Intimidate
Russia tested its first atomic bomb.Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist had helped the United States build their first atomic bombs, was arrested for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets. Fuchs gave the Soviets precise information about the U.S. atomic program, which included a blueprint of the “Fat Man” atomic bomb that was later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and everything the Los Alamos scientists knew about the hypothesized hydrogen bomb. -
Harry S. Truman Bio #2
Harry S. Truman was sworn into office after President Roosevelt died he was vice president before.He won at the end of WWII by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.The Korean War broke out in June of 1950, and Truman sent U.S. troops to the conflict. He thought hat North Korea’s invasion of South Korea was a challenge from the Soviets, and that, if left alone, it could escalate to another world war and to further communist aggression. Proposed to have containment strategy. -
MacArthur Fired
After General Douglas MacArthur publicizes his disagreements with President Truman's "limited war" policy, which prevented MacArthur from using nuclear weapons, Truman accuses MacArthur of insubordination and removes him from command of American forces in Korea. The removal of MacArthur an iconic and popular World War II leader provoked a huge public outcry in the United States, where MacArthur is greeted as a hero upon his return. -
America Aids Vietnam
The cold war was a fight between the United States and the USSR over the world's resources(capitalist vs communist). South Vietnam was an allie of the US and North Vietnam was an allie of the USSR. The US was scared that if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would also convert to Communism. -
Warsaw Pact
Seeing NATO as a threat the Soviets decided to form their own alliances.Later in 1961 they built a wall in the middle of Berlin to separate east and west and get other countries to pick a side. -
Sputnik
American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program was not good at all.It put us in a position where we questioned our technology. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. With the launch of Sputnik,President Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to it as the “Sputnik Crisis”. Although Sputnik was harmless, orbiting scared the people of the US. -
The U-2 incident
The U-2 incident occurred during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union territory. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then caught in a lie they were forced to admit its true mission after the Soviet government found its remains and surviving pilot. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay Of Pigs was an invasion carried out by the CIA to attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a risky plan to do because the US was not in war with Cuba yet. The US planned to say they were “not being involved” in the attack and declared they would not intervene in Cuban affairs, Cuba had already told the UN about the US training mercenaries for this planned invasion. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
after the Soviets moved missles onto the island of Cuba.It became the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were ready to fight at all times and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were also prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded.President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, were able to averted war. -
Photo 1
Shows that the Cold War was really only between the U.S and Russia yet we were able to involve almost the whole world. -
Photo 2
Women decided to protest.This is how most of America felt during the Cold War. Most important to me was the Peace or Perish because the Cold War is seen as one of the least bloody battle and I think that sign perfectly describes it. -
Photo 3
This represents the past and future.The US and Russia were separated then and now by communism.This infers that if the two will work with each other they can complete the puzzle and possibly be great. -
Chart 1
Shows the number of Warheads produced by both sides.Shows Russia always had more, but ironically the U,s one the battle of the Cold War. -
Propaganda 1
This is obviously something that the U.S would have put out or supported.Since almost every battle began with communist vs capitalist this was a constant fear people would have because the US branded communism to be the worst thing possible. -
Propaganda 2
Stalin will clense the Earth.In this we see Stalin one of the soviet leaders sweeping The 3 main Allied powers infering that they need to be swept away in order for russia to stay in order. This could have been very convincing in the Cold war era because Russia was constantly hearing about the U.S and incidents like the U-2 only made propaganda like this more plausible. -
Video 1 Back story
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Berlin Wall comes Down
There had been signs that the Communist bloc was weakening, but the East German Communist leaders insisted that East Germany just needed a moderate change rather than a drastic revolution. As Communism began to become weak in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in 1988 and 1989, new points were opened for any East Germans who wanted to go to the West.The Soviets no longer were strict with the segregation of East and West Germany. -
Song
[Cold War Rap song]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KXIN1WqjYk&feature=share) Not the best but explains all major events. -
After Cold War(Cold War Tech)
