Cold War “The Ideological War” Capitalism v. Communism

Cold War“The Ideological War”

Capitalism v. Communism

Economic SystemsCapitalism Communism

United Nations

• Created: 1945• Purpose:• Security Council– 15 Members– 5 Permanent Members: U.S., U.K., France, U.S.S.R

and China• Veto Power

U.S.S.R.

Germany Divided

Berlin Divided

Winston Churchill’s

Iron Curtain Speech

Truman Doctrine• 1947• Economic Aid • Greece• Turkey• $400M

Marshall Plan• 1948• $12B• Effects

Berlin Airlift• 1948

Number of Flights Tons of CargoUnited States 189,963 1,783,573Britain 87,841 541,937France 424 896Total 278,228 2,326,406

Berlin Airlift Statistics

Alliances of the Cold WarNATO

12 founding members of the Alliance: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. 

28 Members today

Warsaw Pact

Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and the German Democratic Republic

Klaus Fuchs

Between 1945 and 1947, working with a courier code-named Raymond, Fuchs delivered high-level information to Moscow about the atomic bomb, then later the hydrogen bomb.

Japan

Philippines

Chinese Civil WarNationalist Party

• Chiang Kai-shek

Communist Party

• Mao Tse-tung