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The Cold War Unfolds :/

BY: Courtland Anderson

After WWII devasted(destruction to) Japan and Europe two great powers remained: the United States and the Soviet Union. Theses two where known as superpowers!

N.A.T.O

The United States led the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in western Europe.

Warsaw Pact

The Soviet Union led the Warsaw Pact in eastern Europe.

Iron Curtain/Berlin Wall

Berlin

  • Low-paid East Germans unhappy with communism, moved west looking for somthing better
  • East Germany built a Wall in 1961 to stop people form leaving, this wall sealed off West Berlin

Eastern Europe Resists

  • 1953 50,000 workers confronted the Soviet army in the streets of the German capital

  • The uprising spreaded to other german cities, but they couldnt stand up to the Russian tanks

Czechoslovak

In early 1968 Leader of Czechoslovak Alexander Dubcek introduced "Prague Spring"

  • Soviet leaders saw this as a threat to the Communist power and domination

  • Later that year in August the Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovak

Terrifying Arms Race

  • This race started after WWII and the U.S was the only nuclear power

  • By 1949 soviet union had devloped their own nuclear weapons

  • 1953 both sided had devloped hydrogen

Agreements :)

  • 1969 the U.S and the Soviet Union began Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) to limit the number of nuclear weapons held by each side.

  • One limition they signed on was the anti-ballistic missiles, missiles that could shoot down other missiles from hostile countries.

PEACE

The Detente era was known as the relaxation of tensions period durning the 1970's

The era ended in 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

THE END OF THE BEGINNING :)

  • The city was split into Democratic West & Communist East
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