Cold War

The Real ​Star Wars

Learning Targets

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• I can explain the arms race, including the development of nuclear weapons and efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons.

Review

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• May 7, 1945 - V-E Day

• July 25, 1945 - Potsdam Conference

• September 2, 1945 - V-J Day/MacArthur Plan

• October 24, 1945 - United Nations

• March 12, 1947 - Truman Doctrine

• February 1948 - Fall of Czechoslovakia

• April 1948 - Marshall Plan

• June 1948-May 1949 - Berlin Blockade/Airlift

• April 4, 1949 - NATO

• May 14, 1955 - Warsaw Pact

Lead up to Cold War

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• July 1945 - Truman hears success of atomic bomb in NM

  • "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd of Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful."

• February 9, 1946 - Stalin's speech - E/W war inevitable

• February 22, 1946 - "long telegram" - USSR hostile to USA

• March 5, 1946 - Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

  • "From Szczecin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."

Nuclear Arms Race

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• August 1942-August 1945 - Manhattan Project

  • $2 Billion spent developing atomic bomb

• August 1949 - Soviet's have nuclear technology

• November 1952 - USA - first hydrogen bomb

• August 1953 - USSR - hydrogen bomb

• August 1957 - USSR - first ICBM

• October 1957 - USSR - Sputnik launches (start of the Space Race)

• MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction

Stop the Spread

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• October 1963 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  • USA, USSR, UK

  • Banned testing nukes in the atmosphere, space, and underwater

  • Goal: reduce environmental impacts of radiation

• July 1968 - Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

  • Signed by 137 countries

  • Goal: limit the spread of nuclear weapon technology

• Disarmament efforts continued into the 1970's but met resistance from military and manufacturers

Assignment

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• Funko Pops - SPACE RACE

• 4 important individuals involved in the Space Race - USA or USSR (does not have to be human)

• Your main one MUST have at least 5 facts in the biography RELATED to the Space Race. If you tell me when they were born/died that does NOT count as a fact.

• All boxes MUST be filled in

• You need 2 DRAWN accessories

• YES - it MUST have color