1. TREVOR GUMBI
PRESENTING MATCH-UP PRESENTATION
ON
COLD WAR
SEE
REFERENCES
AT END

2. What is a Cold War?
A State of Diplomatic hostility among nations
without direct armed conflict
USSR
USA

3. COMPETING IDEOLOGICAL
SYSTEMS UNION
UNITED STATES
VS. SOVIET
1. Wanted to spread democracy &
capitalism to Eastern Europe.
1. Continued to occupy Eastern Europe &
turned countries into satellites (puppet
states), to protect the Soviet Union from
2. NATO - North Atlantic
invasion from the west.
Treaty Organization. U.S. &
2. Warsaw Pact - Soviet Union &
several Western European
Eastern European satellite countries.
Countries.
Government controls radio, T.V. & Newspapers
Secret police
One party leadership
Freedom of press
Collectivization
Citizens have basic rights
Government controls all production
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Press
Citizens elect representatives
Dictatorship
Use of propaganda
Censorship
People & corporations can own land
People can form own political parties

4. How do you Fight a Cold
War? power – Arms,
A) Need a threat of force and
technology, influence
B)
Use of Propaganda – created hatred and
paranoia of other side
C)
Send economic aid to weaker nations to spread
influence and gain allies
D)
Support with military aid nations in conflicts to
protect interests or agitate other side

5. •
•
FEBRUARY, 1945
THE YALTA
CONFERENCE
U.S., BRITAIN & SOVIET UNION
GOALS:
1. TO PROMOTE WORLD PEACE
2. TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY RELIEF
3. TO HELP FORM INTERIM
GOVERNMENTS BASED ON THE WILL
OF THE PEOPLE
OUTCOMES:
CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, STALIN
1. GERMANY DIVIDED INTO ZONES OF OCCUPATION
2. GERMANY WOULD PAY SOVIET UNION FOR LOSSES
3. SOVIET UNION PROMISED FREE ELECTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE.
POLITICAL CARTOON ACTIVITY

6. FEAR

Fear was the motivation behind
many decisions made during the
cold war
The West was afraid of
communist USSR
The USSR was afraid of the

7. Why was Communism scary?
“ the communist revolution will not merely be
a national phenomenon but must take place
simultaneously in all civilized countries “Marx

8. “(Communists) openly declare that
their ends can be attained only by
the forcible overthrow of all
existing social conditions. Let the
ruling classes tremble at a
Communistic revolution. The
proletarians have nothing to lose
but their chains. They have a world
to win!” - Marx.

9. Why was the USSR afraid of the West?
The
USA, UK, & France had sent soldiers to
Russia in 1917 to stop the Revolution
Their “communist” revolution was not very
successful
The USSR had just lost tens of millions of people
in the war and Stalin’s purges… they were not
prepared to fight the USA & UK
They were a paper tiger

11. Truman Doctrine in full effect
1) $400 million
in aid to
Greece &
Turkey
2) The Marshall
Plan: $12 billion
in aid to help
western
European
countries
rebuild after the
war

12. Germany
After
the
war, the
Allies
divided
up
German
y into 4
zones
Berlin

13. Operation Vittles

14. THE BERLIN WALL- 1961
USSR supports East German plan to build wall.
 Berlin becomes divided: East Berliners and East
Germans may NOT leave the city or the
country.


15. THE BERLIN WALL- 1961

16. THE BERLIN WALL “DEATH STRIP”
 Towers,
guards, dogs and landmines ( 地雷 )
only in Berlin but between ALL of West &
East Germany
 Not
 200
East Berliners killed in Death Strip, 19611989

17. Berlin Airlift

Berlin (capital
of Germany,
largest city)
was in the
Soviet Zone &
the city itself
was divided

18. BERLIN AIRLIFT
‘47-’48

19. The U-2 Incident (how the Cold War
almost ended early)

The spy plane had been spying on the USSR since 1956.

President Eisenhower knew that the USA had far more
bombers, missiles, & weapons than the USSR.

Because of this,
Ike wanted to end the
Cold War at a peace
conference in Paris
in 1960.

20. Vietnam
Vietnam was a French colony
Vietnamese communists led by Ho
Chi Minh (Uncle Ho) defeated the
French in 1954
International Peace Conference
temporarily divided Vietnam into 2
zones (not separate countries)
North Vietnam (Communist) {USSR}
South Vietnam (Capitalist) {USA}

22. Burma

24. Cuba

Issue: In 1959 Fidel Castro led a successful communist revolution in
Cuba

25. Superpower Actions (part 1)
 The Bay of Pigs Invasion:
The Soviet Union gave
Cuba a lot of $ and
support. The CIA trained a
group of Cuban exiles to
invade Cuba & overthrow
their government. The
invasion was a total
failure.

26. Superpower Actions (part 2)
The Cuban Missile Crisis:
USSR begins building missile
bases in Cuba. Nukes
threatened the US. JFK
warned that he would stop
any Soviet boat carrying
missiles to Cuba. The USSR
backed off.
The closest the world has
ever come to total nuclear
war

27. “The Button”

29. REFERENCES
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
Green, H. S. 2013. The cold war part two.
http://www.slideshare.net/HStevenGreen/b-fall-lecture-6-2013.
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Clouse. C. 2012. The Cold War.
http://www.slideshare.net/CarlClouse1/untitledpresentation-12656504
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