What countries were called “super powers”

following WWII?

USA & USSR

In 1946, Winston Churchill described this as coming down across Europe. It separated the nations in the “Soviet sphere”

from the capitalistic democracies of the West

The Iron Curtain

1946

Countries that were in supposedly independent but in actuality were told what to do and how to do it by the Soviet

Union

Satellite States

The effort to block Soviet influence by making

alliances and supporting weaker nations.

1950: April 17Containment

a policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry S Truman stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey

with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. Historians often consider it as the start of the

Cold War.

1947, March 12th

Truman Doctrine

An economic and political power struggle from 1945 to

1989 between the democraticideals of the United States and the communist government of

the Soviet Union.

The Cold War

Why would it be called the “Cold” War?

It was “cold” in that the Soviet and U.S. armies

never directly fought each other.

Massive program of American aid to help European nations

rebuild after World War II. Helped solidify western

European opposition to the Soviet Union

1947, June

Marshall Plan

On May 14, 1948, at 4:00 p.m., the leaders of the Jewish community in

what was then called Palestine gathered to declare the establishment of an old/new country. What was the

country?

Israel1948, May 14

One day after Israel had become a nation, Egypt, Syria,

Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia declared

1948, May 15

War on Israel

American and British joint effort to supply residents of West Berlin with food

and other necessities after the Soviet Union

blockaded the small, free enclave in the middle of

East Germany.

Berlin Airlift

1948, June 24 – 1949, May 11th

In 1949, the United States and 11 other Western nations to formed a

defensive alliance to protect Western Europe against an invasion by the

Soviet Union. The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival

alliance in 1955. What were these two alliances known as?

For two decades the Chinese Nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek opposed the Communist forces led by this

man

1945-1949

Mao Zedong

By 1949, Mao Zedong and the Communists had chased Chiang Kai-shek and the

Nationalists to this island off of China’s coast

Taiwan

At the end of World War II. Japanese forces in Korea surrendered to the Soviet

Union in the north and to the United States in the South. Two

nations developed in Korea, they were separated by this

The 38th Parallel

North Korea became this type of nation

Communist

In June of 1950, North Korea invaded

South Korea

The United Nations agreed to help south Korea. Troops from

16 nations – most of them American – were sent to South Korea. They were led by this

man

General Douglas MacArthur

A ceasefire went into effect in 1951. Dwight Eisenhower was elected with a promise that he would end the fighting. In 1953

an armistice was assigned which established this a

dividing line between North and South Korea

38th Parallel

The United States and the Soviet Union both began

making more and more nuclear weapons. The nuclear build up by both sides became known

as this

The arms race

June 22, 1950-1953

____________-a defense treaty between eight communist states in Eastern Europe, which was established at the USSR’s initiative

1955

May,1961

• May 1961 - President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret 'Special Advisors' to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of 'counter-insurgency' in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas.

1961

1962

President Kennedy ordered the Soviets to remove their missiles and for several days the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Eventually, the Soviet leadership “blinked” and removed their missiles.

• In Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo) gain independence.

August 2nd, 1964

1975