The War is over
The Cold War begins immediately
The Cold War
Two super-powers emerge after WWII
United States
Capitalism
vs
vs
Soviet Union
Communism
 It is a war of Nuclear threats
Both societies are completely opposed
economically and politically.
America
Soviet Union
Two party system
One party elections
Democratic
Autocratic / Dictatorship
Capitalist
Communist
‘Survival of the fittest’
Everybody helps everybody
Richest world power
Poor economic base
Corporate control disguised as
Personal freedom
Society controlled by the
Communist Party
& Secret Police
Media controlled by the
wealthy
Government control of the
media
 The two never go to war but back disputes and wars all
over the world for the next 50 years
 Communism is determined to spread and Capitalism
is determined to stop it from spreading.
 Communism takes hold in impoverished countries
 Many impoverished countries have brutal dictators put
in place with Capitalist support
 Brutal Dictators were also put in place by Communists
 1945: East and West Germany are segregated and
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militarized
1949 : NATO established
1949: USSR exploded her first ‘A’-bomb;
1949: China becomes communist
1950 : Korean War started.
 1952 : USA exploded the first hydrogen bomb.
 1953 : Korean War ended.
 1953: USSR exploded their first hydrogen bomb.
 1955 : Warsaw Pact created.
 1957 : Sputnik launched.
 1959 : Cuba becomes a communist state.
 1961 : Military aid sent to Vietnam by USA for the
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first time.
1961 Berlin Wall built.
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion
1962 : Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 : Huge increase of American aid to Vietnam.
Cuban Missile Crisis
To this day you will only see pre-embargo American cars in Cuba
And you can’t legally buy Cuban cigars in the U.S.
 1965 : USA openly involved in Vietnam.
 1968 : USSR invades Czechoslovakia.
 1973 Americans withdraw from Vietnam
 1979 : USSR invaded Afghanistan.
 1986 : Meeting in Iceland between USSR
(Gorbachev) and USA (Reagan).
 1987 : INF Treaty signed.
The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and ShorterRange Missiles.
 1989: Berlin Wall comes down
 1990: The Cold War Ends
 1991: Soviet Union Implodes
 One Super power is left
What’s Next?
War on Terror
U.S. invades Iraq 2001
 The U.S. uses spying ,terror and torture through out
the world.
Cold War II
 2014 Russia annexes Crimean region of the Ukraine
 NATO imposes sanctions on Russia
 NATO also mobilizes armed forces as a show of force
and intimidation.
Russia is not intimidated
Expansion in Ukraine continues
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