Warm Up
 What were the two leading nations involved
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in the Cold War?
What common goal did these nations have
during WWII?
What were Stalin’s two goals after WWII?
What was the “Iron Curtain”? Who coined the
term? Where did he give the speech?
Who dominated the Eastern bloc? The
Western?
What city in Germany was divided much like
the rest of the country?
Cold War Project
1. Find the picture or photo on the wall that
matches your summary card (there are 22
pictures and 22 summary cards)
1. Draw a simple sketch of the picture or photo
at the top or bottom of your paper (pen or
pencil)
Cold War Project
3. Write 5 to 8 key terms, facts, ideas or
concepts from the summary card on your
paper (sentences, notes, or outline form).
Focus on explaining what occurred, which
countries and/or people were involved, and
why it was a Cold War event.
Cold War Project
4. Repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 for all 22 summary
cards
5. Type all 22 summaries (one on each page).
Title of event must be at the top of the page,
text in the middle, photo or picture at the
bottom (picture can be drawn or taken from
Clip Art or internet).
6. Your 22 pages must be in chronological
order
7. Front of packet must have a title page. Type
a table of contents for your second page.
Cold War Project
8. Packet must be arranged in a binder or
folder (DO NOT STAPLE)
9. All summaries must be in YOUR OWN
WORDS. Students with identical summaries
will not receive credit.
Cold War Project
1. Iron Curtain
2. Truman Doctrine
3. Marshall Plan
4. Berlin Airlift
5. NATO & Warsaw Pact
6. Fall of China
7. Korean War
8. Domino Theory
9. Hungarian Revolt
10. Space Race
11. U2 Crisis
12. Bay of Pigs
13. Berlin Wall
14. Cuban Missile Crisis
15. Vietnam War
16. Springtime in Prague
17. Détente
18. Soviet Invasion of
Afghanistan
19. Solidarity
20. Invasion of Grenada
21. Mikhail Gorbachev
22. Massacre at
Tiananmen Square
Iron Curtain
 Churchill coins the term,
“Iron Curtain” in Missouri
 Iron curtain refers to the
line between democratic
and communist nations
 March 5th, 1946
Truman Doctrine
 March 12th, 1947
 Containment
 stated that the U.S.
would support Greece
and Turkey with
economic and military
aid to prevent their
falling into the Soviet
sphere
Marshall Plan
 The Marshall Plan was the
primary plan of the United
States for rebuilding and
creating a stronger
foundation for the allied
countries of Europe, and
repelling communism after
World War II
 Named after secretary of
state George Marshall
 13 billion given to Europe
 July, 1947
Berlin Airlift
 June 24th, 1948
 Soviets blocked all
routes into Berlin
 No supplies could
reach Berlin
 US drops supplies into
Berlin
 Tensions raised
NATO & The Warsaw Pact
 April 4th, 1949
 NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 Warsaw Pact = Soviet’s answer to NATO
 Named after Warsaw in Poland
Fall of China
 October 1949
 Shows that Containment is
not working
 Mao Zedong (Communist)
vs. Chiang Kai-shek
(Nationalist)
 US gives Chiang Kai-shek
money to help fight the
Communists
 Chiang Kai-shek flees to
Taiwan
Korean War
 First military conflict that the US participates
in to contain communism
 38th Parallel divides North and South Korea
 June 25th, 1950 North Korea invades South
Korea
 No victor in the
Korean War
Domino Theory
 1954
 Eisenhower and his secretary of state John
Foster Dulles coin this term
 Nations will fall like dominos if we do not
contain communism
Hungarian Revolt
 1953 Stalin dies
 Khrushchev takes over and trashes Stalin in a
famous speech
 Khrushchev lets satellite countries have more
say in how they run their country
 Hungary has the
greatest reforms
 Hungary wanted
to withdraw from
Warsaw Pact
Space Race
 1957
 Sputnik was launched
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into space
Scared the US and
jolted our confidence
1958 the Soviets put a
dog into space
1961 USSR puts a man
into space
Kennedy wanted to
send a man to the
moon
U-2 Crisis
 U-2 Dragon Lady (spy plane) shot down over the
Soviet Union
 Pilot captured and put on trial
 Francis Gary Powers was the pilot
Bay of Pigs
 April 1961
 Kennedy promised to “defend
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freedom in its hour of maximum
danger”
“Pay any price, beat any burden”
Fidel Castro leads revolution in
Cuba and changes their govt. to
communist
CIA trains Cuban ex-patriots to
lead revolution in Cuba
Ex-patriots are slaughtered
 US did not help in the invasion
Berlin Wall
 August 1961
 East and West Berlin was
divided by barbed wire
 Not very effective – 1000’s
fled
 Berlin Wall was much more
effective
 Wall becomes ugly symbol
of communism
 Kennedy, “Ich bin ein
Berliner”
Cuban Missile Crisis
 “Arms Race”
 October 14th, 1962
 U-2 spy plane takes
pictures over Cuba and
discovered nuclear
missiles
 Naval blockade
 Soviets removed missiles
 US had to promise they
wouldn’t invade Cuba
 US had to remove their
missiles from Turkey
Vietnam
 1965-1973
 French colonized in
Vietnam
 Vietnamese leader – Ho Chi
Minh
 North Vietnam =
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communist
South Vietnam =
democratic
US sends troops to South
Vietnam
Frustrating war
Containment not working
Springtime in Prague
 1968
 Alexander Dubcek – leader of
the Czech republic
 Great reforms against
communism
 Soviets come in and restore
their dominance
 Manifesto Against Aggression
 Sounds much like the Bill of Rights
 Brezhnev Doctrine – Soviets
could intervene in your govt. at
any time
Detente
 French word meaning relaxing
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or easing
1972
Short lived understanding
between communist and
capitalistic worlds
Nixon travels to Beijing and
Moscow
Ultimately our differences were
too great
The US boycotts the 1980
summer Olympics due to the
Soviets invasion of Afghanistan
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
 December 1979
 War between Soviets and
 Soviets invade Afghanistan
Mujahedin
 This is the Soviet Union’s
Vietnam
and execute the President
and his family
 Babrak Karmal becomes
the new President
 President Jimmy Carter
suspends arms control
race, cuts off all grain
supplies and boycotts the
1980 Olympic games
Solidarity
 September 1980
 Struggle against communist
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regime in Poland
Lech Walesa leads the
movement against
communism
1981 they call for free
elections
The Red Army was ready to
strike
Soviets institute Martial Law
and Solidarity is outlawed
The Invasion of Grenada
 October 1983
 Maurice Bishop (leader of
Grenada) became friendly
with Fidel Castro and the
communist government
 Wanted to put a communist
airbase on their island
 Communists kill Maurice
Bishop after his visit to the
United States
 Reagan orders the invasion
of Grenada
Mikhail Gorbachev
 1985
 Glasnost = openness
 Perestroika = economic and
political reform
 Free market system introduced
 Ethnic division and nationalism
within the Soviet Union
 Signs intermediate Nuclear
Force (INF) treaty
 Pulls soldiers out of Afghanistan
 Berlin Wall is torn down
Massacre at Tiananmen Square
 June 1989
 Tiananmen located in Beijing China
 Communist economy in China very weak
 Overly harsh and dictatorial government
 New Communist leader Deng Xiaoping lets in
a small amount of capitalism and allows
students to study abroad
 When students get back they protest
peacefully at Tiananmen square
 Chinese military breaks up the protest and
kills 500 to 1000 people