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Cuban Missile crisis and the Cold War

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Cuban Missile crisis and the Cold War

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At the end of the lesson you know

- How the Cold War resulted in the Space race and the nuclear arms race

- What changed during the De-Stalinisation

- The causes and consequences of the Cuban Revolt

- What happend during the Cuban Missile crisis

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What do we remember?

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Yalta conference

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Truman doctrine

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Plan

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Blockade of Berlin

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Iron Curtain

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Berlin Wall

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Nuclear arms race

- Creation of nuclear weapons ->

- Competition for supremacy

- Bomb testings !!

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Space race

- Who would win the most 'firsts'

1957= Sovjets send first satelite into space

1957= Sovjets send dog (Laika) into space

1961= Sovjets send first man into space

What happend in 1969? How did it end?

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De-Stalinisation (1953-)

- Losing Stalins 'cult of personality' created by propaganda

- Destroying statues and renaming cities

- Reducing hostility

- New leader 'Chroesjtsjov' --->

- Peaceful coexistence with USA...

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Cuban Revolution (1962)

- Cuba turns to communism

- Dictatorship with Fidel Castro

- Close relationship with the Sovjet Union

And....

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Right around the corner...

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Cuban missile crisis

- Sovjet-Union wanted nuclear weapons in Cuba

- Blockade of Cuba, USA

- Sovjet-Union agreed to turn around

- Very close to nuclear war...

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- How did the Cold War result in the Space race and the nuclear arms race?

- What changed during the De-Stalinisation?

- What where the causes and consequences of the Cuban Revolt?