The document summarizes the key events and developments of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 to the late 1980s. It discusses how the Cold War began with the occupations of Germany and Japan by the Western allies and Soviet Union following World War II. It then covers the major flashpoints and crises of the Cold War era, including the Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, as well as political and ideological developments in China and Eastern Europe. It concludes with the period of détente between the US and Soviet Union and the ultimate fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe and dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.

1. WARS OF IDEOLOGY
Cold War Hits US, Central America, Europe, and Asia

2. Communist
Country in the
Making
“A journey of a
thousand miles
begins with a single
step”
– Chinese saying

3. Cold War Begins: Negotiating the End of WWII
Occupation of Germany Occupation of Japan

4. Cold War Begins: Iron Curtain

5. SLIDECAST SUMMARY QUESTION
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Q1. What two countries did the US and their
WWII allies occupy after WWII?

6. COLD WAR BEGINS
Berlin Blockade and Airlift

7. Cold War Begins: Seeking Security
NATO Arms Race
Above: NATO member countries in 1949
Right: Fallout shelters were built in fear of
a nuclear attack, you can see the signs from
this time period today. Click here to see the
video kids watched in school to prepare

8. Cold War Begins: Korean War

9. Cold War Heats Up
Berlin Wall
Above: Building of the Berlin Wall in August of 1961
Left: Completed Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate

10. Cold War Heats Up: Hungarian Revolt
Click here to listen to
testimony of a man
who lived through
the revolt

11. Cold War Heats Up
Mission: Space China’s Great Leap Forward
Left: Scientist working on Sputnik before its
launch into space
Above: Propaganda poster for steel
production, “Take steel as the principle,
lead forward in all fields.”

12. SLIDECAST SUMMARY QUESTION
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Q2. What was the Space Race? Who was the first
country to have a satellite in space?

13. COLD WAR HEATS UP
Cuban Missile Crisis

14. Cold War Heats Up: China’s Cultural Revolution
Above: Propaganda poster
Far Left: Students pledging allegiance to
Zedong
Left: Cultural Revolution propaganda
poster that depicts Mao Zedong above a
group of soldiers called the Peoples
Liberation Army with the caption “The
People’s Liberation Army of China is a
great school for Mao Zedong Thought.”

15. SLIDECAST SUMMARY QUESTION
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Q3. Who led China’s Great Leap Forward and
Cultural Revolution?

16. COLD WAR HEATS UP
War in Vietnam

17. Cold War Heats Up
Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia Man on the Moon
Left: Life covers the story of the Soviets crushing the “Prague Spring”
Top Left: Czech youngsters holding Czechoslovakian flags stand atop of an
overturned truck as other Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in
downtown Prague, Aug. 21, 1968
Right: Neil Armstrong is the first man on the Moon

18. Cold War Comes
to an End
Helsinki Accords
Détente
Soviets Invade
Afghanistan
Above: Nixon visits Brezhnev in the Soviet Union
Far Left: Time Magazine depicts détente with Ford and Brezhnev
Left: Soviet tanks enter Afghanistan

19. SLIDECAST SUMMARY QUESTION
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Q4. What does détente mean? How was it good
for the Cold War?

20. Cold War Comes to an End:
Changes in the Soviet Union
Berlin Wall Falls,
Summit Diplomacy
Gorbachev Resigns
US President Ronald Reagan and
Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev

21. SLIDECAST SUMMARY QUESTION
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Q5. Which American and Soviet leader practiced
summit diplomacy in the 1980s?

22. Picture Citations
 Slide 2  Slide 9
 newspaper.li  cs.utah.edu
 Slide 3  bbc.co.uk
 sodahead.com  Slide 10
 commons.wikimedia.org  en.wikipedia.org
 hdg.de  libcom.org
 Slide 4  nytimes.com
 johndclare.net  Slide 11
 uncyclopedia.wikia.com  mentallandscape.com
 Slide 6  en.wikipedia.org
 britannica.com  Slide 13
 spiritoffreedom.org  johndclare.net
 Slide 7  mitchellarchives.com
 britannica.com  unimaps.com
 ourlovelywords.wordpress.com  picturehistory.com
 delagostti-industries.com  spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
 imprint.printmag.com  Slide 14
 Slide 8  wikipedia.org
 users.erols.com  members.fortunecity.com
 archives.gov  yesnet.yk.ca
 sydwalker.info

23. Picture Citations Continued . . .
 Slide 16
 wikipedia.org
 dmschwessinger.edu.glogster.com
 tampabay.com
 vietnampix.com
 Slide 17
 soviethammer.info
 discussions.mnhs.org
 inspiremykids.com
 Slide 18
 wikipedia.org
 historyspalding.blogspot.com
 Slide 20
 padresteve.com
 time.com
 vanityfair.com
 evropskemesto.cz
 riotsqurrrl.tumblr.com
 lindsayfincher.com

24. SLIDECAST EXIT SUMMARY
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