Yalta Conference July 1945 Potsdam Conference 1945 Germany

Yalta Conference

July 1945 Potsdam Conference

1945 Germany Broken Up • Germany Split 4 zones British (pink) US (yellow) French (blue) Soviet (green) • Austria, too • land given to Poland/USSR • later becomes East and West Germany

1946 Churchill and the Iron Curtain

1947 Containment and Truman Doctrine

1947 -48 The Berlin Airlift

1947 Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan

1949 NATO and the Warsaw Pact

The Bomb USA A-Bomb 1945 USSR A-Bomb 1949 USA H-Bomb 1952 USSR H-Bomb 1953

1953 Iran, Mossadegh and the Shah Misleading, huh?

China and the Korean War Mao Zedong Chiang Kai Shek (Jiang Jieshi) Douglas Mac. Arthur Kim Il-Sung (Jong-Il) 1949(China) 1950 -53(Korea)

Dulles, Eisenhower, MAD and Brinksmanship

Living Happily with Nuclear Holocaust

1957 Sputnik Yuri Gagarin US Reaction 1 st man on the moon

1959 The Kitchen Debates

1961

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

1950 s Domino Theory and Vietnam

• Bay of Pigs 1961 • Invasion of Hungary 1956 • U 2 shot down 1960 • Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968 • Invasion of Afghanistan 1979 • “freedom fighters” • dictators

1989 Détente Nixon Sino-Soviet Split “Opening” of China Détente with the Soviet Union

1989 -91 The End Solidarity Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika Glasnost Ronald Reagan Fall of the Berlin Wall Dissolution of the Soviet Union