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1945 • YALTA CONFERENCE- PLANS FOR POST-WAR EUROPE (ITALY), ROOSEVELT ATTENDS FOR U.S. • TRUMAN • ROOSEVELT DIES IN APRIL, REPLACED BY HARRY TRUMAN • NO KNOWLEDGE OF SOVIET RELATIONS, ATOMIC BOMBS, ETC… • BOMBS-ONCE GERMANY SURRENDERS, OPTIONS ARE LIMITED TO STOP JAPAN • GERMANY • DIVIDED INTO 4 ZONES AT POTSDAM CONFERENCE (CITY OF BERLIN DIVIDED) 1946 • WINSTON CHURCHILL • GIVES HIS “IRON CURTAIN” SPEECH • CONTAINMENT • PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM • DOMINO THEORY 1947 • TRUMAN DOCTRINE • HIS FOREIGN POLICY PLAN TO GIVE $ TO COUNTRIES RESISTING SOVIET INFLUENCE • IN PARTICULAR THREAT WERE TURKEY & GREECE • MARSHALL PLAN • $13 BILLION TO REBUILD WESTERN EUROPE (MORE LIKE $130 BILLION TODAY) • FURTHER PREVENT THE APPEAL OF SOVIET UNION 1948 • BERLIN BLOCKADE • SOVIETS ALLOWED NO TRAFFIC INTO THEIR “SIDE” OF BERLIN • LATER LED TO THE CREATION OF A PHYSICAL BORDER • BERLIN AIRLIFT • 15 MONTHS- 2 MILLION TONS OF SUPPLIES WERE DROPPED ON BERLIN • MOSTLY FUEL & FOOD • “CANDY BOMBERS” 1949 • NATO • RESPONSE TO SOVIETS CLOSING OFF BERLIN, SHOWING THEY INTENDED TO BE HOSTILE • NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION • CHINA • REBELLION ENDS WITH CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER MAO ZEDONG • PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC) • SOVIET UNION 1950 •KOREAN WAR (1950-1953) •JAPANESE SPLIT KOREA BETWEEN SOVIETS & AMERICANS WHEN THEY SURRENDERED •38TH PARALLEL- DIVISION BETWEEN N. KOREA & S. KOREA •NORTH (COMMUNIST) INVADES THE SOUTH KIM IL-SUNG 1948-1994 KIM JONG-IL 1994-2011 KIM JONG-UN 2011-PRESENT 1952 •U.S. EXPLODES A HYDROGEN BOMB •“ARMS RACE” IS IN FULL SWING! 1953 •BRINKMANSHIP: “TAKE THE SITUATION TO THE “BRINK” OF DISASTER TO GET THE ADVANTAGE 1955 •WARSAW PACT: EASTERN EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO NATO • “COLLECTIVE DEFENSE” FOR SOVIETS & THEIR SATELLITE NATIONS 1958 • FIDEL CASTRO OVERTHROWS BATISTA IN CUBA • CUBA OFFICIALLY COMMUNIST REMEMBER CUBA IS ONLY 90 MILES FROM U.S. SOIL! CASTRO IN POWER 1959-2008, NOW IS BROTHER RAUL. 1960 •U2 INCIDENT: AMERICAN SPY PLANE SHOT DOWN BY SOVIETS •PILOT LANDED AND WAS CAPTURED •NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (NEW SOVIET LEADER) •CALLED OFF A VISIT WITH TRUMAN BUTTER BATTLE BOOK •DR SEUSS BRINGS THE ARMS RACE TO LIFE… 1961 •BAY OF PIGS INVASION • FAILED US INVASION TO OVERTHROW CASTRO IN CUBA • PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD JUST TAKEN OFFICE • THE CIA TRAINED AND ARMED 1400 CUBAN EXILES AND ATTACKED •BERLIN WALL IS BUILT! 1962 •CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS • US HAD STATIONED NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN TURKEY • SOVIETS HAD NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN CUBA • KENNEDY ANNOUNCES A BLOCKADE- SOVIETS THREATEN NUCLEAR WAR! • CLOSEST CALL IN THE ENTIRE COLD WAR… 1965 • US TROOPS SENT TO VIETNAM • VIETNAM SPLIT INTO 2 PARTS (LIKE KOREA ALL OVER AGAIN!) • NORTH BACKED BY CHINA- COMMUNIST • SOUTH BACKED BY THE US • US TROOPS STAY UNTIL 1974… 1972 •S.A.L.T. • STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TREATY • DEAL SLOWS DOWN ARMS RACE • (PRESIDENT NIXON) 1989 •NEW SOVIET LEADER: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV •BERLIN WALL COMES DOWN! 1991 •COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION •GORBACHEV PROMISES FREE SPEECH AND OPEN ELECTIONS • SATELLITE NATIONS GAIN INDEPENDENCE