1. The Cold War 1945-1991

4. NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization

6. YALTA (in the USSR) Date: Feb 1945 Present: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

7. POTSDAM (Germany) Date: July 1945 Present: Churchill, Truman and Stalin

8. Iron Curtain – A term used by Winston Churchill to describe the separating of Those communist lands of East Europe from the West. Divided Germany

12. Berlin Wall Berlin Wall

15. Wall torn down in 1989.

17. Marshall Plan USA’s plan to send food, blankets, fuel to Europe to help them. AND to keep them from turning communist .

19. Berlin blockade led to Berlin Airlift

21. 1957 Sputnik – first satellite Score 1 for Soviets !

25. Nuclear Missiles!

27. Domino Theory Communism spreads like a disease

29. Communists invaded from the north. China sent a million troops to help reds.

31. What is the United Nations?

36. Vietnam, 1968

37. Helicopters!

38. Napalm!

40. Seeing this on TV led to a loss of support at home

41. Hippie bashing!!!

42. Hippies/Anti-war

48. A U2 spy plane found these missile silos in Cuba, 1962.

49. Kennedy Khrushchev

50. People built more bomb shelters.

54. How did the USA try to contain communism?

55. Marshall Plan – helped countries economically so they won’t go red .

56. Helped anti-communist troops

59. Castro is still alive!