THE COLD WAR
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What reasons did the War start?
there was a conflict between the
communist of North and anti-communist
South Korea.
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Was it actually a war?
it wasn’t an actual war.
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What countries were involved?
South Korea, North Korea, United
States, and China
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What was the outcome of the
War?
Korean War
June 25 1950 - Now
The outcome of the Korean War
was the United States had spent lot of
money to support and helping out South
Korea.
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What was NATO's role in the war?
NATO was an organization
designed to provide mutual
assistance in case of war in the
areas around the North Atlantic so it
didn't play any part in the Korean
War.
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Who were the historical
personalities involved and their
roles?
Douglas Macarthur was the
commander of the US and UN forces
combating the North. President
Truman was the president who
decided to intervene in the Korean
conflict, lest Communism
spread Mao Zedong ruled China
and sent military help to North
Korea, Stalin sent fighter planes and
pilots to the North
The Vietnam War
1 November 1955– 30 April 1975 (19 years,
180 days)
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What reasons did the War start?
A conflict between France and
Vietnam because after one hundred
years of colonial rule, a defeated France
was forced to leave Vietnam.
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Was it actually a war?
For Vietnam it was a war, however it
wasn’t a war to the U.S because the U.S
never actually declared war on Vietnam.
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What counties were involved?
France
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
(North Vietnam)
Republic of Vietnam (1950 "State
of Vietnam, AKA South Vietnam)
United States
South Korea
Soviet union
The UK
People's Republic of China
(mainland China)
Republic of China (Taiwan - Cargo
transport support)
Australia
New Zealand
Philippines
North Korea (200 pilot to two
fighter squadrons that defended
Hanoi)
Cuba (anecdotal, as reported by
Sen. John McCain and other
POW's)
Canada (Noncombatant, support
roles)
Poland (Noncombatant, support
roles)
India (Noncombatant, support
roles)
Laos (Pathet Lao)
Cambodia (Khmer Republic and the
Khmer Rouge)
Thailand
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What was the outcome of the
War?
The Geneva Peace Accords, signed
by France and Vietnam in the summer of
1954, reflected the strains of the
International cold war.
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What was NATO's role in the war?
They basically stayed out of it.
They did not interfere.
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Who were the historical
personalities involved and their
roles?
US Presidents: Eisenhower,
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford.
US Vice Presidents: Humphrey,
Johnson, Ford
US Security Advisers: McGeorge
Bundy, Henry Kissinger
US Senator: Robert Kennedy
US Sec. of Defense: Robert
McNamara
US Ambassadors: Maxwell Taylor,
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
US Army Generals, Colonels:
Harkins, Westmoreland, Abrams,
George S. Patton Jr. (son of WWII
GEN Patton), Harry Summers,
Starry.
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The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
17–19 April 1961
1.Why did the United States feel they
needed to invade?
- Communism was taking over them.
2.Who did they get to invade?
- They got to invade Cuba.
3. What countries were involved?
- United States & Cuba.
4. What was the outcome of the
invasion?
- It was a painful loss for the
exiled Cubans, a victory for Castro &
Cuba, but an Embarrassment for the
CIA.
5. What was NATO’s role?
- They helped them by giving
them weapons and food to get what they
need.
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6. Who were the historical
personalities involved, and their
roles?
- Joseph Stalin, Churchill, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1. How were the missiles discovered?
- A spy plane took a picture of where
the missiles were being stored.
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 14 – October 28, 1962
2. Why were the missiles sent to Cuba?
- To protect Cuba from another
United States-sponsored invasion, such
as the failed attempt at the Bay of Pigs in
1961.
3. What counties were involved?
- Cuba, the U.S, and The Soviet
Union
4. Describe what the outcome was.
- The outcome was that the
United States and the Soviet Union came
to find a peaceful solution without
causing a nuclear WWII because JFK
(John F. Kennedy) had sent troops to
make a blockade in Cuba so the nuclear
weapons that were coming from the
soviet union couldn't get through.
5. What was NATO’s role in the war?
- NATO was a military alliance to
counter Soviet union aggression.
6. Who were the historical personalities
involved and their roles ?
- Nikita Krushchev’s proposed the
idea of inserting nuclear missiles in Cuba
John Kennedy announced if there is
a nuclear attack from Cuba would be
responded accordingly.
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What reasons was the Berlin
Wall built?
The reason was to divide the
East from the West.
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What impact did it have on
Germany and its people?
Because there were too many
Berlin Wall
August 13, 1961
well-educated people moving
to the East.
Berlin airlift
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What counties were involved?
United States, Great Britain
and France and other part by
the Soviet Union
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Why was it considered a
symbol of the Cold War
Because it represented the
division between East Berlin
and West Berlin.
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What was NATO's role in the
war?
to establish collective security
against the Soviet Union
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Who were the historical
personalities involved and
their roles?
East German leader Walter
Ulbricht.
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Why did the Airlift have to
take place?
June 27, 1948 to May 12, 1949
To Help the German Rebuild there
country.
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What impact did it have on
the people of Germany and
Eastern Europe?
they were being st raved and taken
from there businesses to main
control
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What counties were involved?
France,Untied States, Britain,
Germany
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Why was it considered a
symbol of the Cold War?
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What was NATO's role in the
war?
to establish collective security
against the Soviet Union
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Who were the historical
personalities involved and
their roles?
The hist umn furry, an
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Explain the growth of atomic
weapons between the two
superpowers.
Space Race/ Arms race
1969,
The growth of the atomic weapons
started when he US made the Atomic
bomb to bomb Japan since Japan didn’t
want to surrender. When making the
atomic bomb Soviet spies infiltrated the
Manhattan project and the Soviets had
the secret to making the atomic bomb
and in 1949 the Soviet Union had the
atomic bomb. And from there both
countries made the best atomic
weapons.
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Who were the two
superpowers during the Cold
War?
America was the capitalist
superpower and the USSR (Russia) was
the communist
superpower. The
USSR also included most of what we now
call east Europe (e.g. East
Germany,
Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, etc.) America
'won' the cold war when Russia gave up
communism in 1991 due to economic
failures
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Why was the launch of
Sputnik so historically
significant toward the space
race? Egar
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List the achievements (firsts)
of the Superpowers involved
in the Space Race
Von Braunand his team successfully
launched America's first spacecraft,
the satellite Explorer 1, on January
31.
Congress authorized the formation of
an agency devoted to spaceflight.
With the birth of the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), the U.S.
space program had the dedicated
resources it needed for the next great
achievement: getting a human being
into space.
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What were the outcomes of
the Space race and Arms race
between the two Cold War
superpowers? The outcome of
the Arms race was the result of
the treaties of SALT I and SALT II
which in simple terms are the
reduction of the weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) the space race
on the other hand it finish with the
treaty of the construction
International Space Station (ISS)
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