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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
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