Another Clash of Ideologies: The Cold War History 104 / April 19, 2013
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Another Clash of Ideologies: The Cold War History 104 / April 19, 2013
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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Another Clash of Ideologies: The Cold WarHistory 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)
