Yalta Conference

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Yalta Conference
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Potsdam Conference
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• Cold War
• US vs. USSR

Terrorists vs. Freedom Fighters
Cold War Events
Greece 47 Korea 50-53 Cuba 61 Hungary 56
Vietnam 63-75 Czechoslovakia 68 Afghanistan
79 Dozens of others
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Germany Broken Up

• Austria, too
• land given to Poland/USSR
• later becomes East and West Germany

• Germany Split

4 zones British (pink) US (yellow) French
(blue) Soviet (green)
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The Atom Bomb
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Containment
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The Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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The Korean War
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The H-Bomb
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Dulles, Eisenhower and MAD
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The Kitchen Debates
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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• Bay of Pigs
• Invasion of Hungary
• U2 shot down
• Invasion of Czechoslovakia
• Invasion of Afghanistan
• Vietnam War
• freedom fighters
• dictators
• NATO/Warsaw Pact