Cold WarPart l

1945 - 1960

Table of contents

• Definition• Facts• Two Political Ideologies• NATO / Warsaw Pact• Space Race• Arms Race

Definition

Term

No actual fighting between two countries Cold War

Instead: passive war - a war through other means

Facts

Who

WhatStruggle of two controversial political ideologies (communism - capitalism)

When1945 – 1990 (after World War II)

VS.USA Former Soviet Union

(USSR)

The two controversial political ideologies

Capitalism• economic system in

which wealth is privately owned and controlled rather than by the state

• People: J.F. Kennedy

Communism • promotes the

establishment of an egalitarian (everybody is equal), classless, society

• based on common ownership

• People: Lenin, Stalin

The two world powers and their allies

Closer look on the divided Europe

Effects on Germany

After WW II division into• BRD (NATO) and

• DDR (Warsaw Pact)

In 1961• The Berlin Wall is built

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Reichstag building in Berlin,1945

Effects in general

USA and USSR display their powers on alternative stages

•The arms race

•The space race

•Nuclear treaties

Space Race

The Sputnik Shock

First man-made satellite (USSR)

Use

Relatively insignificant Instrument for gathering data

Launched on

October, 1957

Size and weight

Basketball, 184 pounds

Effect

Started the new age of spaceExploration and the US/ USSR Space race

Sputnik IISputnik I

USSRUSSR

Arms (Nuclear) Race

• USSR began replacing older intermediate-range missiles (Mittelstreckenraketen) with new ones

• Were able of hitting targets throughout Western Europe

• Threat of a limited nuclear war in Europe was now a possibility

• Race for most effective missiles began

Literature and movies

Sources

• wikipedia.de• investorwords.com• edition.cnn.com• sputnik.de• ibsurvival.com• dhm.de/lemo/html• de.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia• Das Große Duden Lexikon

The EndA presentation by

Lilly and Miriam