Historical photos with music. On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the atomic bomb Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total estimated casualties to 140,000. Approximately 69% of the city's buildings were completely destroyed, and about 7% severely damaged.
CAMBRIDGE A2 HISTORY: THE MANHATTAN PROJECT 1948. Content: Splitting uranium atoms, Einstein and Fermi, the Manhattan project, first nuclear chain reaction, Los Alamos, total secrecy, soviet spies, the detonation of the first atomic bomb, the nuclear age.
By Mohamed Amine Ben Aicha
And
Job Eloka Lenaie
Topics
- Timeline
- Global view
- Important peoples
- Nikita Kruschev
- John F. Kennedy
- Ronald Reagan
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Primary source
The Timeline:
August 6th 1945-United States dropped bomb on Hiroshima
August 14, 1945- End of the WW II
June 24, 1948- The Berlin blockade begins
April 4, 1949- NATO is formed
May 12,1949- Berlin blockade ends
June 1950-July 1953- Korean war begins and endsThe Cold War
May 1955- Warsaw Pact formed
May 1960- U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
November 1960- John Kennedy became president
April 1961- Bay of Pigs
August 13,17- The border or Berlin is closed off;construction begins of the Berlin Wall
October 1962- Cuban Missile Crisis
November 1963- President Kennedy assassinated
July 20, 1969- Apollo 11 wins space race by landing on the moon
November 1989- Fall of the Berlin Wall
August 1991- End of the Cold War
Globale view:
The Cold War began to form after World War II. The disagreements started between 1947-1951. The world split into two large organizations NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the Warsaw pact. Many people believed at that time that a nuclear war would start. The main tensions were between The Soviet Union (Russia) and The United States. Both sides and their allies were building up their weapons but did not use them. It was a fight between political systems for power.
Important people:
Nikita Kruschev (1894->1971)
John F. Kennedy (1917->1963)
Ronald Reagan(1911->2004)
Mikhail Gorbachev(1931-> )
Nikita Kruschev (1894-1971)
Nikita Kruschev was born on April 17, 1894 and died on September 11, 1971. After Joseph Stalin died Nikita Khrushchev became chief director of the Soviet Union. He was a strong believer in the communist party, and he became the First Secretary from September 7, 1953 to October 14, 1964. Khrushchev was Premier of the Soviet Union from March 27, 1958 to October 14, 1964. When he was 77 years old. He was notorious for his rudeness of interrupting speeches and removing his shoe to bang it on the podium during debates at the United Nations.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He was in office from January 20, 1961 until November 22, 1963. Kennedy was the president during the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Vietnam war and the American Civil rights movement. On November 22end ,1963 Kennedy was in Dallas, Texas and was assassinated.
Ronald Reagan(1911-2004)
Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States on January 20, 1981 and left office on January 20, 1989. He was the governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Regan served two terms also partly during the cold war. He ordered a massive military buildup while racing against the Soviet Union. He later spoke with Mikhail Gorbachev and they shrunk the US and Russ
Historical photos with music. On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the atomic bomb Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total estimated casualties to 140,000. Approximately 69% of the city's buildings were completely destroyed, and about 7% severely damaged.
CAMBRIDGE A2 HISTORY: THE MANHATTAN PROJECT 1948. Content: Splitting uranium atoms, Einstein and Fermi, the Manhattan project, first nuclear chain reaction, Los Alamos, total secrecy, soviet spies, the detonation of the first atomic bomb, the nuclear age.
By Mohamed Amine Ben Aicha
And
Job Eloka Lenaie
Topics
- Timeline
- Global view
- Important peoples
- Nikita Kruschev
- John F. Kennedy
- Ronald Reagan
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Primary source
The Timeline:
August 6th 1945-United States dropped bomb on Hiroshima
August 14, 1945- End of the WW II
June 24, 1948- The Berlin blockade begins
April 4, 1949- NATO is formed
May 12,1949- Berlin blockade ends
June 1950-July 1953- Korean war begins and endsThe Cold War
May 1955- Warsaw Pact formed
May 1960- U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
November 1960- John Kennedy became president
April 1961- Bay of Pigs
August 13,17- The border or Berlin is closed off;construction begins of the Berlin Wall
October 1962- Cuban Missile Crisis
November 1963- President Kennedy assassinated
July 20, 1969- Apollo 11 wins space race by landing on the moon
November 1989- Fall of the Berlin Wall
August 1991- End of the Cold War
Globale view:
The Cold War began to form after World War II. The disagreements started between 1947-1951. The world split into two large organizations NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the Warsaw pact. Many people believed at that time that a nuclear war would start. The main tensions were between The Soviet Union (Russia) and The United States. Both sides and their allies were building up their weapons but did not use them. It was a fight between political systems for power.
Important people:
Nikita Kruschev (1894->1971)
John F. Kennedy (1917->1963)
Ronald Reagan(1911->2004)
Mikhail Gorbachev(1931-> )
Nikita Kruschev (1894-1971)
Nikita Kruschev was born on April 17, 1894 and died on September 11, 1971. After Joseph Stalin died Nikita Khrushchev became chief director of the Soviet Union. He was a strong believer in the communist party, and he became the First Secretary from September 7, 1953 to October 14, 1964. Khrushchev was Premier of the Soviet Union from March 27, 1958 to October 14, 1964. When he was 77 years old. He was notorious for his rudeness of interrupting speeches and removing his shoe to bang it on the podium during debates at the United Nations.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He was in office from January 20, 1961 until November 22, 1963. Kennedy was the president during the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Vietnam war and the American Civil rights movement. On November 22end ,1963 Kennedy was in Dallas, Texas and was assassinated.
Ronald Reagan(1911-2004)
Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States on January 20, 1981 and left office on January 20, 1989. He was the governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Regan served two terms also partly during the cold war. He ordered a massive military buildup while racing against the Soviet Union. He later spoke with Mikhail Gorbachev and they shrunk the US and Russ
A Review Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis for St Gabriel's Secondary School using political cartoons. This presentation looks at the following inquiry question:
1. Why did the CMC break out?
2. Why did the CMC almost lead to nuclear conflict?
3. How was the CMC resolved?
4. What was the impact of the CMC?
1. Bay of Pigs-
• In 1959 rebels under the leadership of Fidel Castro overthrew Cubaʼs dictator and installed a
Communist government.
• Castro made close ties with the Soviet Unionʼs leader Nikita Khrushchev. He established a
planned ___________. He actions worried the United States.
• Cuba is very close to Florida and the alliance with the Soviet Union brought the Cold War
really close to America.
• America secretly trained an invasion force of 1,500 Cubans who had fled Castroʼs regime. In
April 1961, this force came ashore at Cubaʼs Bay of Pigs.
• President Kennedy and American officials believed that the Bay of Pigs invasion would start
a massive Cuban uprising against Castro. However, the invaders were quickly defeated.
U-2 incident-
1. The U2 incident was the shooting down of a United States U2 Aircraft near Degtyarsk,
Soviet Union.
2. The U2 incident occurred on May 1st 1960, during the height of the cold war. At the time
Dwight D. Eisenhower was president of the United States and Nikita Khrushchev was
leader of the Soviet Union.
About the Aircraft
3. The aircraft shot down was a United States single engine, high altitude reconnaissance,
Lockheed U-2 aircraft. This basically means the aircraft had one engine, flew at very high
altitudes and was used solely for military purposes.
4. The aircraft was piloted by Francis Gary Powers. He survived the incident but died in 1977,
at the age of 47 in a helicopter crash in Southern California.
5. According to the flight plan, the aircraft was to take off from a United States Air-force base
in , Pakistan and travel over several locations in Western
and then land in , Norway. Places that were to be flown over included the Aral
Sea and Yekaterinburg.
EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE INCIDENT
6. In July 1957 , U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower requested permission from Pakistan's
Prime Minister Huseyn Suhrawardy for the U.S. to establish a secret intelligence facility in
Pakistan.
7. On April 9th, 1960, the United States performed a successful secret intelligence mission in
the Soviet Union.
8. In this operation, a United States U2-C spy plane, piloted by Bob Ericson flew through the
Pamir Mountains in the southern part of the Soviet Union and over four of the Soviet Unionʼs
top secret military objects.
9. The sites included...the Semipalatinsk Test site, where the Soviet Unionʼs cold war nuclear
weapons were tested; Dolon Air Base, where Soviet Tu-95 bombers were stationed; The
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2. Surface to Air Missile test sites, where Soviet missiles were tested and the Tyuratam Missile
range at Baikonur Cosmodrome; the worldʼs first and largest operational space launch facility.
10. During this mission, the aircraft was spotted by Soviet Air Defense Forces after it had flown
nearly 250 kilometers over Soviet Air Space. Several hours after being warned to leave, the
aircraft flew out of Soviet Airspace and landed at and Iranian airstrip
Berlin Wall -
-After Communist East Germany and democratic West Germany formed in 1949, tens of
thousands of East Germans left their country by crossing from East Berlin into West Berlin.
Some wanted to live in a free, democratic nation, while others simply crossed the border in
search of work. By 1961 as many as 1,000 people a day were making the daily trip between
their homes in East Germany and jobs in West Berlin.
-To stop this exodus, East Germany began building a tall barrier between the two halves of the
city. This barrier, known as the Berlin Wall, was heavily guarded. Anyone attempting to cross it
risked being shot by East German guards.
-When Hungary opened its border with Austria in August 1989, thousands of East Germans
traveled to Hungary to cross this open border to the West.
The East German Government opened the gates of the Berlin Wall in November 1989,
because it couldnʼt stop people from going into West Germany.
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