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Cuban Missile crisis and the Cold War 

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

What do we remember?

Yalta conference

Truman doctrine

 Plan

Blockade of Berlin

Iron Curtain

Berlin Wall 

Nuclear arms race 

- Creation of nuclear weapons ->

- Competition for supremacy

- Bomb testings !!

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?

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... 

Cuban Revolution (1962)

 - Cuba turns to communism 

- Dictatorship with Fidel Castro 

- Close relationship with the Sovjet Union

And....

Right around the corner... 

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... 

- 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?

- What happend during the Cuban Missile crisis