RECAP Cold War

• History
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

NATO

Warsaw Pact

UK

Czechoslovakia

Austria

Greece

Hungary

Poland

East Germany

Belgium

Italy

1945

1948

1949

1961

1962

1963

first Soviet atomic bomb

China communist state

Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin Blockade

Yuri Gagarin in space

Jalta Conference

Berlin Wall built

Marshall Plan

NATO founded

1969

1985

1988

1989

1990

1991

Poland non-communist government

end of the Soviet Union

German Reunification

Gorbachev resigns

Gorbachev new leader SU

first man on the Moon

Hungary non-communist government

Mr Sanders visits East Berlin

Fall of Berlin Wall

Honecker

Gorbachev

Kennedy

Helmut Kohl

Fidel castro

"Ich bin ein Berliner"

Perestroika

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!"

Berlin Wall

Missile Crisis

TERMS

policy Soviet leader Gorbachev to change the communist planned economy into a free market economy

TERMS

military alliance of the USSR and its satellite states

TERMS

policy initiated by Soviet leader Gorbachev to give Soviet people more freedom of speech

TERMS

political reform in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin in 1953 that rejected Stalin’s cult of personality.

TERMS

a state that is officially independent but is under heavy political, economic and military control of another country

Which term best suits this cartoon?

1. Berlin Blockade
2. spheres of influence
3. Marshall Plan
4. Iron Curtain

In groups of three discuss the
artist's message.

One answer per group

Which term best suits this cartoon?

1. space race
2. Iron Curtain
3. arms race
4. M.A.D.

In groups of three discuss the
artist's message.

One answer per group