Three weeks worth of work condensed into the bare bones needed to understand the past 60 years.

1. 1945-1991 Our Final Unit The Cold War

2. Quietly write down what you think this symbolizes or what it means Don’t tell anyone

3. Lets list some things that jump to mind when we say the term “Cold War”

7. 1980 Olympics Flyers vs Red Army team

12. No DIRECT fighting between the US / Western Europe and the Soviets Period of high tensions (1945-1991) War by Proxy. (Support others who are fighting) Arms Race – conventional and nuclear Spies / Espionage against one another Propaganda Big Fear: Cold War will become a Hot War. What happens then? What is a COLD WAR?

13. Soviet Union Buffer States Buffer States Buffer States Buffer States Buffer States Buffer Countries (“satalite states”) Europe At the End of World War II

18. THE MARSHALL PLAN – America’s idea to Rebuild Germany

20. Put Germany back together Rebuild towns, roads, cities, railroads Send food, clothing, money to rebuild Germany Soviets see this as a threat “ They are rebuilding the Nazi’s homeland!”

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

25. We are closing the border! Stay out! But what about the people in West Berlin?! HELP!

27. NATO

28. Creation of NATO N orth A tlantic T reaty O rganization – alliance of western nations Warsaw Pact – alliance of USSR and its allies

39. Berlin Wall

40. West German cars

41. East German cars

43. Western Side of the wall Eastern Side of the wall Notice any differences?

44. Soviets put nuclear missiles in Cuba Will the US bomb the missile sites? If they do, the Soviets will retaliate Result – Nuclear War US Blockades Cuba instead Soviets give in – dismantle missiles World breathes sigh of relief

49. What would have happened if the Soviets ever decided to expand into Western Europe? … And it would not have stopped there -

50. What would happen if we ever fought the Soviets Directly?

51. What would happen if we ever fought the Soviets Directly?

55. Note the crater

56. 50 years of living "under the gun"

59. What would have happened to us, here in Ambler??

60. Soviet Nuclear Missile Target Sites

61. You are here

62. This is going to hurt

63. “ Russians” Sting 1985

68. “ Tear Down This Wall!” -Ronald Reagan The US builds up its military. It can afford it. Russia tries to build up its military too. It CAN NOT afford it.

69. Mikhail Gobachev Soviet Premier 1985-1991 Perestroika : means “restructuring” or “New ideas” Glasnost: “Openness” Freedom of the press and Freedom of speech etc

74. December 1991 – The Soviet Union ends