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Post-WWII Major Themes. Cold War Massive military expenditures Rise of nuclear weapons. Crash Course: http:// www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI. Tension leading up to cold war. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Post-WWII Major Themes
Cold WarMassive
military expendituresRise of
nuclear weapons
Crash Course: http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI
Tension leading up to cold war
Soviets occupied and installed communist governments in several eastern European countries
Stalin’s speech (1946) declaring that communism and capitalism could not exist in the same world
Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
Germany’s split
Hot Wars related to the Cold War
Propaganda on both sides
Red Scare http://www.designer
-daily.com/examples-of-american-cold-war-propaganda-2918
Soviet Propaganda http://englishrussia.
com/2006/09/20/soviet-propaganda-against-usa-posters/
Containment
Excerpt from Truman’s speech to Congress (March 12, 1947):
“Our way of life is based upon the will of the majority and is distinguished by free institutions…free elections…and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression…fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free people, resisting attempted subjugation (control) by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”
Marshall Plan
NATO versus Warsaw Pact
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): defensive military alliance
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Wall: symbol of a world divided into rival camps
Warsaw Pact
Other forms of cold war competition
James Bond: popular culture was influenced by global conflicts http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=RaEU_A405zA
Consumerism in the U.S.
USSR Lag in Consumer Goods
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3z3eSVG7A
Ronald Reagan new car joke