Easy and "interactive" presentation on the balance of terror.

1. A bAlAnce of terror

2. to get you in the mood
- Lyrics
- People
- …
Attero
dominAtus
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sAbAton

3. What is it about?
Who did you see?
What do they mean with: ‘the eagles wings and beak
are broken’?
discuss the song
 When was this?

4. May 1945 (8th
)  The end of WWII in Europe
But...
15 August (2 September)
 Japan surrenders = nuclear bombs Hiroshima + Nagasaki.

5. 4 StageS of an atomic bomb
http://www.wouldisurviveanuke.com/

6. the war iS over now …
Problem = Soviet Union & others

7. 1949
• DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik; East Germany)
• BDR (Bundesrepublik Deutschland; West Germany)
 First atomic bomb of Soviet Union

8. Korean war
1950  Korean War
= North = Soviet Union + China (communism)
= South = UN-force led USA (capitalism)
 1953 = Armistice; but hate between SU and USA

9. The arms race
1952 => first test of an H-bomb by American scientists
1000 x stronger than an atomic bomb
John Foster Dulles
1953 = Stalin died
Nikita Khrushchev  leader of the Soviet Union

10. 1954 VieTnam War
1965  hungary reacTed

11. end of 1950’s
Balance of terror

12. 1961  high-educated people - leaving East side of Germany.
 build the Berlin wall (DDR & BDR)
1962  Cuba = the communist Castro, the USA sent planes
Saw missiles of SU, almost war, negociations
•SU took away missiles + tore down launching areas
•US called of the blockade + missiles away from Turkey

13. 1972 = SALT = SU and UN stop making more weapons