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Post WWII

Origins of the Cold War - THE SEGUE YEARS (1945-1950)!!!. Post WWII. Who is this guy??????. COLD WAR. US versus Soviet Union War of Words Dominated global affairs and US foreign policy until 1945-1991 (breakup of the Soviet Union)

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Post WWII

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  1. Origins of the Cold War- THE SEGUE YEARS (1945-1950)!!! Post WWII

  2. Who is this guy??????

  3. COLD WAR • US versus Soviet Union • War of Words • Dominated global affairs and US foreign policy until • 1945-1991 (breakup of the Soviet Union) • Political and Military TENSIONS!!! US/USSR

  4. Ray Price: This Cold War With You • The sun goes down And leaves me sad and blueThe Iron Curtain falls On this Cold War with you, For you won't speak And I won't speak, it's true Two stubborn people With a cold, cold war to go through…. Why, oh, why should love ever come To couples, like you and me Whose cold, cold wars are never done And whose hearts just can't be free So let's make up Or let's just say we're through I just can't stand another Cold, cold war with you (Repeat last two verses) I just can't stand another Cold, cold war with you

  5. WARMUP: INTERPRET THIS CARTOON

  6. WHAT was the U.S. relationship with Stalin???? Clement Attlee, Harry Truman, Josef Stalin

  7. TREATY ENDING WWII • Yalta Conference • February 1945 • In Soviet Union • FDR, Churchill, Stalin • Temporary division of Germany into 4 zones

  8. Southern Ukraine

  9. GERMANY AFTER WWII

  10. Germany : May 1948 • WEST • Britain, France, US decide to combine zones • Federal Republic of Germany • EAST • German Democratic Republic • Soviet created

  11. BERLIN

  12. Berlin BLOCKADE & Airlift • Stalin closed all highway and rail routes • blockade • Berlin Airlift: helped East and West Berlin survive; We dropped care packages into East Berlin • May 1949 Soviet stopped blockade

  13. BERLIN WALL GOES UP 1961; COMES DOWN 1989

  14. Western side: Graffitti

  15. Mrs. Topusat the Berlin Wall

  16. UNITED NATIONS

  17. United Nations • Signed April 1945, replacing League of Nations, 50 countries joined • A “King Arthur’s Round table” 5 permanent members: main victors of WWII: • U.S. • United Kingdom • U.S.S.R • France • Republic of China

  18. Satellite Nations • Military Alliance between the USSR & the countries that bordered to her WEST • Stalin installed Communist gov’t-IRON CURTAIN COUNTRIES • Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania , Poland, Albania. • Justification: • Stop Eastern front Invasions, especially Germany • Suffered devastation on soil from war

  19. Marshall Plan 1947 • Provide aid to all western European nations • 1952: Western Europe flourished • USSR turned down receiving aide furthering their detachment from the West! George Marshall Proposed plan Secretary of State

  20. Containment • **Truman’s foreign Policy** • Taking measures to stop the expansion of Communism • Europe divided: IRON CURTAIN ** • West: Democratic • East: Communism • Divided Warsaw and NATO countries

  21. Truman Doctrine 1947-1950 • $400 million for Turkey & Greece • Economic & military aid • Prevent spread of communist, ---the DOMINO THEORY

  22. North Atlantic Treaty Organization • NATO April 1949 • Defensive Military Alliance • US • Canada • Western European Nations • Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal.

  23. Warsaw Pact 1955 • Military alliance by Soviet Union & Eastern European Satellites.

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