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John F Kennedy
Born in May 1917, John F. Kennedy came from an illustrious political family. He oversaw one of the most crucial moments in the Cold War (Cuban Missile Crisis) and sought to affirm America’s beliefs in basic human rights by calling for civil rights legislation and an attack on poverty and degradation. Assassinated in November 22, 1963, his tragic death shocked America and the world. -
Fidel Castro
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was born near Birán, Cuba, in 1926. Beginning in 1958 Castro and his forces began a campaign of guerrilla warfare to successfully overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, and Castro became the country's new leader. His communist domestic policies and military and economic relations with the Soviet Union led to strained relations with the United States that culminated in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev was born in March 1931 in Stavropol, the North Caucuses to a poor peasant family. Mikhail Gorbachev was general secretary of the Soviet Union Communist Party from 1985-1991. He was also the first democratically elected President in 1990. Mikhail Gorbachev played a key role in dismantling the Communist grip on power in both the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. His aspirations for democracy and reform opened up the way for the end of the Cold War and the bringing down of the Berlin Wall -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
United Nations
In June 1945, The US and USSR joined 48 other countries to form an organization. Intended to protect its members from aggression -
Iron Curtain Forms
"Iron Curtain" is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. To the east of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the former Soviet Union. This included part of Germany Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania. -
The Defibrillator
Defibrillation is the definitive treatment for the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Defibrillation consists of delivering a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to the affected heart. Dr. Claude Beck invented the defibrillator in 1947. Doctors could now shock jolt someone back to life and save many lives. -
Cold War World Map
Map of the world during the Cold War that shows who was on what side. -
Communism Propaganda 1
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US Propaganda 2
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Communist Progaganda 2
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US Propaganda 1
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Arms Race Cartoon
Depicts US and USSR in a literal arm race at the equal point to signify how equal we were with the USSR in terms of nuclear and arsenal build up. Whoever loses, their missile goes straight into the opposing continent -
Cold War World
Shows how impactful the Cold War really was. The Cold War literally split the world into two : Communists vs Non Communists -
Or Else Cartoon
Shows US and USSR making peaceful agreements. There is a giant nuclear bomb over watching to signify the alternative route each could take if they did not want to come to an agreement and sort things out -
Containment
Truman adopts a policy that directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild a war-devastated region, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again. -
The Berlin Airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. the blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. The allied response was a unbelievably massive air supply- flying night and day to feed the city. -
Creating NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). -
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The Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea. -
Warsaw Pact
he treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was formed in response to NATO. -
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Vietnam War
The cold war was a fight between the United States and the USSR over the world's resources. South Vietnam was an allied of the US and North Vietnam was an allied of the USSR. The US feared if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would also fall to Communism. -
Sputnik
The Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program. It was a key Cold War event that began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. The launch of Sputnik I and the failure of its first two Project Vanguard launch attempts rattled the American public; President Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to it as the “Sputnik Crisis”. Although Sputnik was itself harmless, its orbiting scared the people of the US -
The U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its intact remains and surviving pilot. -
US Strategic Nuclear Arsenal Build Up
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The Bay of Pigs
The Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute as US was not in war with Cuba then. Though the US planned to appear “not being involved” in this attack and declared about their non-intention to intervene in Cuban affairs, Cuba had already approached the UN with the facts about the US training mercenaries for this planned invasion. -
Berlin Wall
In 1961, The East Germans built a wall to separate East and West Berlin. Symbolized a world separated into rival camps -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. Luckily, thanks to the bravery of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted. -
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Prague Spring
Prague Spring Jan - Aug 1968, was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union; -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops." -
SALT I
July 1972
the first treaty between the United States and the USSR; limited the number of missiles each side could own. Eased some tensions -
Mikhail Gorbachev Becomes Leader of the USSR
1985 Made reforms to revive the degenerating USSR, promising to fix things up -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Dec 1979, A nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting the Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan government against the Mujahideen resistance. -
US Spending During the Cold War
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Ronald Reagan Becomes President
Jan 1981 Continued the fight against communism and promised to defeat the USSR -
Cold War Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qbRHY1l0vc
The song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe. In September 1953 the clock reached 2 Minutes to Midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight, when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Nov 1989,
Berlin wall taken down; Beginning of the fall of communism and the Soviet Union - symbolized the failure of communism and massive socialism -
Post Cold War Europe Map
Map of Europe after the Cold War -
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