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