Vocabulary

The Cold War (1940s-50s)Joseph Stalin vs. Harry Truman

Battle of Berlin, 1945

Germany, 1945

Key ConceptsWhat is communism?What is a satellite nation?What is the iron curtain?What is containment?CommunismAn economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of propertySatellite Nation

Satellite Nation

Iron Curtain

Iron Curtain

ContainmentThe blocking of another nations attempt to spread its influenceespecially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s.Early Cold War TimelineWhat was Sputnik?What is The Marshall Plan?What is the Truman Doctrine?What happened in Berlin?What is NATO?What was the Warsaw Pact?What happened in China?What happened in Korea?What is the arms race?

The Marshall Plan, 1947

Truman Doctrine, 1947

Berlin

Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948

Berlin Blockade

NATO, 1949Military alliance of 12 nations formed in response to the Cold War. Intended to defend against Soviet aggression. Original members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Warsaw Pact, 1955Military alliance of Soviet-bloc countries to defend against NATO. Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the U.S.S.R.Created in Warsaw (the capital of Poland)

NATO vs. Warsaw Pact

Peoples Republic of China, Oct. 1949Red ChinaMao ZedongAllies itself with Soviet Union

Korean War, 1950-53Divided at 38th parallelNorth Korean invades South Korea in 1950Soviet Union supports NorthU.S. supports SouthStalemate, 1953

The Forgotten War, 1950-53

Atomic vs. Hydrogen BombHiroshima atomic bomb = 20,000 tons of TNT

Hydrogen bomb = 10,000,000 tons of TNT

Creates arm race

Hiroshima13 kilotons of TNT25Hydrogen Bomb,1952 (U.S.) 1953 (U.S.S.R.)

Fall-Out Shelters

25 megaton bomb

Modern Bomb28

Modern Bomb

29Number of Nuclear Warheads

30

32Whos Got Them Now?

33Whos Got Them Now?

34Sputnik, 1957

Berlin Wall, 1961

Key People/OrganizationsJoseph StalinHarry TrumanThe United NationsDwight D. EisenhowerJohn F. KennedyNikita KhrushchevNikita Khrushchev vs. John F. Kennedy

Joseph Stalin vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower