1. Harry Truman
•Truman DoctrineThe United States
gave financial and
military aid to Greece
and Turkey to prevent
them from falling
under the rule of the
Soviets. Truman also
began the
containment policy.
Image: Harry S. Truman. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 12:16, Nov 23,
2013. from http://www.biography.com/people/harry-s-truman-9511121.
2. Doris Day
Image: Musto,M. (2010) http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2010/06/doris_day_is_no.php
3. Red China
•The People’s
Republic of
China was
formed due
to the Soviet
Spread of
Communism.
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party.svg
9. Richard Nixon
•Member of HUAC and
Vice President to Dwight
D. Eisenhower. He
continued Truman’s
policy of containment
regarding the spread of
communism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Richard_Nixon
11. Television
•The Cold War
was the first
war to be
documented
and
broadcasted on
television.
Image: http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950%20QF.htm
12. North Korea, South Korea
•North Korea
became a
Communist
country in 1925.
North Korea and
South Korea are
separated by the
38th Parallel.
Image: http://ksnvienna.com/2013/05/13/north-and-south-korea-a-students-opinion/
14. Rosenbergs
•United States citizens
convicted of
conspiracy to commit
espionage. They were
accused of passing
information about the
atomic bomb to the
Soviets, and were
executed for their
crime.
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
15. H-Bomb
•The United
States, as well as
the USSR, had
the H-bomb in
case of the even
of a nuclear war.
Image: http://www.viewzone.com/hbomb.html
19. The King and I
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I_(1956_film)
20. The Catcher in the Rye
Image: http://blog.cksf.org/page.cfm/scholarships/catcher-in-the-rye
21. Eisenhower
•Dwight D. Eisenhower
continued Truman’s
containment policy. He
was also president
during the first result
of that policy, The
Korean War.
Image: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_David_Eisenhower
28. Joseph Stalin
•Second
Communist
leader of the
USSR. Stalin was
the leader during
World War II and
the start of the
Cold War in
1947. (See essay
for details.)
Image: http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/joseph-stalin-51.php
29. Malenkov
•Close friend and
successor of Stalin.
Malenkov only held
office for six months,
until he was
succeeded by Nikita
Khrushchev.
Image: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19521006,00.html
31. Prokofiev
•Sergei Prokofiev was a
Russian composer who
publicly denounced
the communist party.
He was declared an
enemy of the Soviet
Union.
Images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
35. Roy Cohn
•Close friend of
Joseph McCarthy. He
was also an attorney
on the prosecution
team during the
Rosenberg Trials.
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn
39. Dien Bien Phu falls
•Battle between
the French and
the Viet Minh
communist
revolutionaries.
This battle lasted
for a month and
was ended by
the Geneva
Accords. The city
fell to the Viet
Minh
Image: http://www.lpusd.k12.ca.us/rm1/online/hotpotatoestav/TAV17-1/17-1b.htm
40. Rock Around The Clock
Image: http://2011wedidntstartthefire.wikispaces.com/Rock+Around+the+Clock
49. Budapest
•The capital of
Hungary. In
1954, Hungary
fell to
communism
and many
landmarks in
Budapest
were
destroyed.
Image: http://www.americanhungarianfederation.org/1956/photos.htm
51. Khrushchev
•The successor of
Malenkov and communist
leader of the USSR for
nine years. He was also
the leader during the
start of the space race
and the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
Image: http://www.answers.com/topic/nikita-khrushchev-large-image
54. Trouble in the Suez
Image: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csistudies/studies/vol51no2/the-art-of-strategic-counterintelligence.html
57. Pasternak
•Russian author of Doctor
Zhivago. This novel took
place in Russia between
1905 and World War II.
Pasternak won the Nobel
Prize for Literature after
Doctor Zhivago was
banned from publication
in the USSR. The fact that
he won the Nobel Prize
greatly angered the USSR.
Image: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1958/pasternak-bio.html
59. Kerouac
•Author and rebel
who constantly
denounced
communism,
Catholicism and
other forms of
organization and
conformity.
Image: http://alexdonald.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/what-happened-to-kerouac/
60. Sputnik
•First satellite
in space
happened to
be a Soviet
satellite. This
was the first
development
in the space
race between
the US and
USSR.
Image: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/satellites.php
61. Chou En-Lai
•Was the first leader of
Communist China from
1949 until 1976. he
served under Chairman
Mao and was critical in
controlling the rise of the
Communist Party.
Image: http://www.lisasee.com/dreamsofjoy-inside/historical-links/
62. Bridge on the River Kwai
Image: http://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Summaries/B/Bridge%20on%20the%20River%20Kwai,%20The.htm
74. Edsel is a no-go
Image: http://www.answers.com/topic/edsel-large-image-1
75. U-2 (not the band)
•A United
States aircraft
that was shot
down while
flying over the
USSR, causing
a major crisis
during the
Cold War.
Images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident
87. Berlin
•The USSR
refused to
merge their
portion of
Germany. As a
result, West
Berlin was free
and East Berlin
was ruled by
communism.
Image: http://americanhistory.unomaha.edu/module_display.php?mod_id=86&review=yes
88. Bay Of Pigs Invasion
•The invasion
of Cuba that
was
unsuccessful.
It was an
attempt of
the United
States to
overthrow
Castro’s
reign.
Images: http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2010/10/operation-northwoods-trick-us-citizens/
90. British Beatlemania
•While popular,
the Beatles were a
very controversial
band. They wrote
songs about the
Cold War and the
reign of
Communism (ie,
Back In The USSR,
Revolution, etc.)
Many also accused
John Lennon of
being a
communist.
Image: http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=16500
100. Ho Chi Minh
•Leader of the
Communist party in
Vietnam. He
founded the
Democratic
Republic of
Vietnam, the
People’s Army of
Vietnam, as well as
the Viet Cong.
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh
101. Richard Nixon Back Again
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Richard_Nixon
107. Reagan
“Mr. Gorbachev,
tear down this
wall!”
•Reagan
challenged
Gorbachev, the
leader of the
USSR. Due to his
actions, the Soviet
Union fell and
Berlin Wall
crumbled.
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1984
111. Russians In Afghanistan
•A nine year
war
between the
USSR and
Afghanistan.
Many
Afghan
people were
forced to
flee the
country.
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
116. Homeless Vets
•Due to economic
situations, many
veterans of the
Vietnam War
were left poor
and homeless.
Image: http://feminspire.com/why-are-so-many-veterans-in-the-us-homeless/
120. Hypodermics on the Shore
Image: http://2011wedidntstartthefire.wikispaces.com/Hypodermics+on+the+Shore
121. China’s Under Martial Law
•To end the
Tiananmen
Square
protests,
China
declared that
the military
could use
armed forces
against the
students.
http://ciccib.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/today-we-remember-the-massacre-in-tiananmen-square-photos/
123. CHORUS (seriously though this is the
last time)
Image: Image: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/22/todays-top-10-songs-for-jfk-slideshow/we-didn’t-start-the-fire-billy-joel/
124. THANKS BILLY!!!!!
•
All credit for this song goes to Billy Joel, Mick Jones, and Colombia Records (1989).
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BillyJoel_StormFront.jpg