H4 Cold war start & Cuba Crisis

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The Cold War

Lesson goals

At the end of the lesson:

- Can you describe the essence of the Cold War

- Do you understand the impact of the use of nucleair weapons

Tekst

What to do with Germany??

After ww2

Berlijn is, net als Duitsland, verdeeld in 4 bezettingszones. Omdat Berlijn in de Sovjet-zone ligt, liggen de Berlijn-bezettingszones van Frankrijk, Engeland en de Verenigde Staten dus ook in de Sovjet-zone.

Conference Yalta

feb 1945

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President van de Verenigde Staten

Jozef Stalin

Leider van de Sovjet-Unie

Winston Churchill

Minister-President van Groot-Brittannië

• Churchill (GB), Roosevelt (US) en Stalin (SU)

Why did they clash?

Read page 82: 
from 'an important cause...' and the text 'increasing differences'

The Cold War is a war between the USA and

1. Europe
2. China
3. Soviet Union
4. India

Agreements of Yalta conference
that are similar to Treaty of Versailles

1. Garmany demilitarised
2. Nazi war criminals put to trial
3. Garmany had to pay reparations
4. Germany had to split into four occupation zones

Truman doctrine meant to avoid more coutries having a communist goverment

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

According to Marshall, poverty could lead to communisme

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

Marshall refused to offer Marshall aid to Eastern bloc coutries

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

Truman Doctrine was to help coutries economical and military wise, to keep them from communism

1. True
2. False

Waschau pact and NATO are alliances in case countries would be under attack

1. True
2. False

Why was Berlins wall built

1. to prevent people from West Berlin entering East Berlin
2. to protect East Berlin from possible invasion
3. to prevent people from East Berlin entering West Berlin
4. to protect the communist economy of East Germany

Difference between BDR & DDR =

What do you see here? 

Describe the keyword 'Cold War' in one sentence.

Google 'Checkpoint Charlie'
What is Checkpoint Charlie?

Reasons for the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

• How important were the respective security concerns of the superpowers in creating the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• To what extent was ideology a cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• “Kennedy laid the blame for the Cuban Crisis firmly at the Soviet Union’s door, saying that Chairman Khrushchev had to ‘halt this clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace.’” How far do you agree with the view that Khrushchev and the Soviet Union were to blame for the Cuban Crisis?

Which statement is false

1. USA & SU became involved in a space race
2. SU was the first nation to send a satellite into space
3. Neil Amstrong wasa the first human in space
4. Space race was very expensive for USA & SU

First Chinese communist leader was

1. Ho Chi Ming
2. Mao
3. Lenin
4. Tito

This is

1. Kennedy
2. Mao
3. Chroesjtsjov
4. Reagan

These man are ...

Reasons for the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 ...

• How important were the respective security concerns of the superpowers in creating the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• To what extent was ideology a cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• “Kennedy laid the blame for the Cuban Crisis firmly at the Soviet Union’s door, saying that Chairman Khrushchev had to ‘halt this clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace.’” How far do you agree with the view that Khrushchev and the Soviet Union were to blame for the Cuban Crisis?

Why did the USA lose the war in Vietnam?

• To what extent were American military tactics responsible for their failure in Vietnam?

• How important was negative public opinion in America as a reason for the USA’s loss in the Vietnam War?

• To what extent did the American forces fail in Vietnam due to weaknesses in their South Vietnamese allies?

Truman 

•  bloc formation
  
  
• 1945: new president:
  Harry Truman (US) :containment
  
  
  
• Marshallplan: helping out Western(!) countries

Bloc forming

German Democratic Republic (GDR) and

Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

Militairy pacts

NATO (north atlantic treaty organization 

Warschaw Pact 

Atomic tension 

Cuba crisis 1962