Cold War, 194563

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? starter activity
By the 1970s the US and the USSR each had enough
nuclear weapons to blow the world up several
times over. Can you explain this cartoonists
joke?
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Characteristics of Cold War

• Suspicions between capitalists communists
• Propaganda
• Espionage
• Nuclear arms race
• Space race

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Why did the wartime alliance breakdown?

• Background to the Cold War

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Damage caused by WWII

• Houses, factories, shops entire cities
  destroyed by bombing
• By 1945, millions of sick, hungry homeless
  refugees across Europe
• Millions had lost their lives

Which country had suffered most? How did this
affect its relations with other countries after
the war?
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Conflicting ideologies

• Before the war many countries could claim to be
  superpowers USA, USSR, Britain, Germany, Japan,
  France, Italy
• By 1945 only 2 clear superpowers US USSR
• Conflicting ideologies capitalism communism

What joke is this cartoonist saying about
relations between the Grand Alliance after 1945?
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Political changes in Europe

• Most European countries occupied by Germany run
  by governors
• With no German govt., who would govern Europe?
• Resistance movements communist, e.g. Greece
  Turkey or non-communist e.g. France?

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Rise of US

• 1941, Germany invaded Russia
• Western allies delayed opening of 2nd front
• US developed atomic bomb independently
• US economic threat (50 global manufacture)
• US air naval supremacy
• Communism undemocratic

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? Your task

• List the differences between capitalist and
  communist ideologies
• Create a short timeline outlining the key events
  of the Cold War era.

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Key events
Berlin Wall last days

• 1945, Yalta Potsdam conferences
• Soviet expansion in E. Europe
• 1946, Iron Curtain
• 1947, Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan
• 1949, NATO
• 1955, Warsaw Pact
• 1961, Berlin Wall
• 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis