Analyzing Cold War Cartoons. How much tension did these Cold War events cause? p. 192 On the brink...

Analyzing Cold War Cartoons

How much tension did these Cold War events cause? p. 192

On the brinkof war

“sizzling hot”

Medium hot

Simmering onlow heat“mild”

Ernest Bevin - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Great Britain

Molotov – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Clement Richard Attlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1945-1951

Harry Truman, President of the

United States, 1945-1953

Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the Soviet Union

1922-1953

General Douglas MacArthur - United Nations Command (Korea), 1950-1951

Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator, 1947-1957

Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President, 1953-1961

In 1957, Laika became the first animal launched into orbit, paving the way for human spaceflight. This photograph shows her in a flight harness.

Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, 1953-1964

John F. Kennedy,U.S. President,

1961-1963

Kennedy and Khrushchev