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Cold WarPart l
1945 - 1960
Table of contents
• Definition• Facts• Two Political Ideologies• NATO / Warsaw Pact• Space Race• Arms Race
Definition
Term
No actual fighting between two countries Cold War
Instead: passive war - a war through other means
Facts
Who
WhatStruggle of two controversial political ideologies (communism - capitalism)
When1945 – 1990 (after World War II)
VS.USA Former Soviet Union
(USSR)
The two controversial political ideologies
Capitalism• economic system in
which wealth is privately owned and controlled rather than by the state
• People: J.F. Kennedy
Communism • promotes the
establishment of an egalitarian (everybody is equal), classless, society
• based on common ownership
• People: Lenin, Stalin
The two world powers and their allies
Closer look on the divided Europe
Effects on Germany
After WW II division into• BRD (NATO) and
• DDR (Warsaw Pact)
In 1961• The Berlin Wall is built
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/466?inPopup=true (was soll der link hier?)
Reichstag building in Berlin,1945
Effects in general
USA and USSR display their powers on alternative stages
•The arms race
•The space race
•Nuclear treaties
Space Race
The Sputnik Shock
First man-made satellite (USSR)
Use
Relatively insignificant Instrument for gathering data
Launched on
October, 1957
Size and weight
Basketball, 184 pounds
Effect
Started the new age of spaceExploration and the US/ USSR Space race
Sputnik IISputnik I
USSRUSSR
Arms (Nuclear) Race
• USSR began replacing older intermediate-range missiles (Mittelstreckenraketen) with new ones
• Were able of hitting targets throughout Western Europe
• Threat of a limited nuclear war in Europe was now a possibility
• Race for most effective missiles began
Literature and movies
Sources
• wikipedia.de• investorwords.com• edition.cnn.com• sputnik.de• ibsurvival.com• dhm.de/lemo/html• de.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia• Das Große Duden Lexikon
The EndA presentation by
Lilly and Miriam