Another Clash of Ideologies: The Cold War

History 104 / April 19, 2013

The United Nations: an extension of the wartime alliance

The UN General Assembly: near-universal membership

The UN Security Council: the forum for consensus-building among the five permanent members

Harry S. Truman with George C. Marshall(soon to become Secretary of State)

The Marshall Plan: a loan program to

kick-start Europe’s economies

(participating countries writtenin yellow letters)

The Four Powers’ occupation zones

in Germany

The Berlin Airlift1948-49

Communist victory in China,

1949

here:“Chairman Mao”

The Cold War turns hot

(June 1950)

Landings at Inchon: the United Nations at war

The founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),

April 1949

The Warsaw Pact is proclaimed (May 1955)

Europe divided into two alliances(1955-1990)

Sputnik:the first satellite in orbit

(Oct. 1957)

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968)

An inter-continental ballistic missile

John F. Kennedy with Nikita Khrushchev(Soviet premier, 1953-1964)

Building the Berlin Wall (1961)

Soviet missiles in Cuba (Oct.-Nov. 1962)