the cold war 1945-1991. important terms of cold war

The Cold War The Cold War 1945-19911945-1991

Important Terms of Cold War

POSTWAR PLANS• UNITED NATIONS

FORMED, JUNE 1945– International organization

intended to protect members against aggression

– Based in New York– General Body and a

Security Council made up of 11 nations

– (5 permanent USA, USSR, CHINA, GB, FRANCE)

United Nations

RIVAL ALLIANCES

NATO• Nations promised to meet

an attack on a NATO member with armed force

WARSAW PACT• Soviet alliance system as

part of their own containment policy

SOME COUNTRIES STAYED OUT OF THE ALLIANCES LIKE INDIA & CHINA

After World War II, the world changed!

• Many countries became communist after World War 2 including:

- Czechoslovakia (1948)- Poland (1947)- Hungary (1947)- China (1949)- Cuba (1959)- North Korea (1945)

Harry Truman

1.Berlin Wall2.Berlin Airlift3.Nuclear Bomb4.Nuclear drills5.Fallout Shelters6.Korean War7.Napalm8.Vietnam War9.Fall of Saigon10.My Lai Massacre11.Cuban Missile Crisis12.Bay of Pigs invasion13.Nixon visits China14.Kennedy and the Cold War15.Khrushchev16.Stalin17.Glasnost and Perestroika18.Solidarity19.Tiananmen Square20.Sputnik21.The Space Race22.Man lands on the Moon23.U2 plane

USA POLICY

• Truman thinks it’s time to stop “appeasing” the Soviets…new policy

• CONTAINMENT– Directed at blocking

Soviet influence and expansion of communism

DecolonizationDecolonization

Harry Truman Douglas MacArthur

Vietnam War 1960-1965

Leonid Brezhnev Jimmy Carter