1. The cold war

3. The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting of the Allied leaders
during World War II to decide what to do with Germany

4. Germany
Divided
British
Soviet
French
American
● After World War II,
Germany was divided
into four zones,
occupied by French,
British, American,
and Soviet troops
● Berlin, the capital
city, was divided

5. East and West
Germany
formed
East Berlin
West
Germany
East
Germany
West Berlin
● In June of 1948, the
French, British and
American zones were
joined into the nation of
West Germany after the
Soviets refused to end
their occupation of
Germany.

6. The Strategy
Who?
Strategy
United States
Containment
Soviet Union
Satellite
nations
Explanation
The effort to
restrict Soviet
expansion (George
Kennan)
Anti-appeasement
The establishment of a
safe buffer zone of
“friendly nations”
(Communist) on the
western border

7. Letter from U.S. diplomat
George Kennan that led to
the U.S. policy of
containment of
communism.
Kennan said the Russians were concerned
about invasions from the west and wanted a
buffer zone
Russians wanted to spread communism
world-wide
U.S. should use diplomatic, economic and
military actions to keep communism

8. The Iron Curtain
Poland,
Romania,
Czechoslovakia,
Hungary
Bulgaria and
East Germany
became satellite
nations of
Soviet Union
“ An iron curtain has descended across the
Continent”
– Prime Minister Winston Churchill

9. Peep under the
Iron curtain
March 6, 1946
Who is “Joe”?
What part of
Europe is sealed
off?
What does the
wall symbolize?

10. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in
the Adriatic, an iron curtain has
descended across the Continent.

11. ● In response, the
Soviets cut off West
Berlin from the rest of
the world with a
blockade.
Eventual site of the Berlin Wall

12. Berlin Airlift
● President Truman
decided to avoid
the blockade by
flying in food and
other supplies to
the needy people of
West Berlin

13. Berlin Airlift
● The Berlin Airlift
saved the people of West
Berlin from falling
under Soviet Union
control

14. Truman Doctrine
● U.S. foreign policy established by President Truman saying
the U.S. would protect democracies throughout the world
“It must be the policy of
the United States to
support free peoples
who are resisting
attempted subjugation
by armed minorities or
outside pressures”
-- Harry Truman

15. Truman Doctrine
● It pledged that the United States
would fight Communism worldwide
American tanks provided by the Truman Doctrine roll through Turkey

16. Aid for Europe
● Secretary of State
George Marshall
toured Western
Europe.
●Marshall feared
that poor
Europeans would
turn to
Communism
Children in a London suburb, waiting outside the wreckage of what was their home

17. Marshall
Plan
● U.S. plan for rebuilding
Western Europe, and stopping
communism after World War II
● Plan pumped
billions of dollars
into Western
Europe for food
and supplies
George C. Marshall

18. Marshall Plan aids Western Europe
The Marshall Plan proved to be a great success

19. Birth of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
● Formed in
1949 to protect
Western
Europe from
Soviet
aggression

20. The Warsaw Pact
● The Warsaw Pact was
the Soviet Union’s
response to the
creation of the North
Atlantic Treaty
Organization

22. The Equipment
I know what weapons World War II was fought with, but World War three will be
fought with sticks and stones. –Einstein
The Atomic Bomb
(A-Bomb)
The Hydrogen Bomb
(H-Bomb)

23. Cold War spreads to Asia
● Communists
take over in
China
● The country of Korea became
the next battleground in the Cold
War
China
Korea

24. This presentation is a mashup from two slides by:
 Dschall,28 January 2008. Cold War.
http://www.slideshare.net/dschall/cold-war-244261?
qid=2de15c1d-4874-45e1-a5a6d867defc5d5e&v=default&b=&from_search=12
 Weber D, May 2013. Cold War Begins.
http://www.slideshare.net/dustinweber/cold-war18489176?qid=2de15c1d-4874-45e1-a5a6d867defc5d5e&v=default&b=&from_search=5