Cold war

By Heath Maatman
How did the cold war start?
The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. couldnt agree on how
we should have rebuilt Europe.
We came to a disagreement, which brought an
era of tension.
This also brought bitter rivalry to the United
States against the Soviet Union

Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States found out that soviet Union was building nuclear
missile bases in Cuba.
In 1962
Consequences of the Cold War
The effects of the military budget cuts were very large.
After Russia embarked on capitalist economic reforms in the 1990s, it
suffered a Financial Crisis and a recession more severe than the
United States and Germany had experienced during the Great
Depression.
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the
United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to
provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States
entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. After the
destruction of the Second World War, the nations of Europe struggled
to rebuild their economies and ensure their security.
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in
Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania,
Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members.
The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any
member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military
command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union. The
introduction to the treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact indicated the
reason for its existence. This revolved around "Western Germany,
which is being remilitarized, and her inclusion in the North Atlantic
bloc, which increases the danger of a new war and creates a threat to
the national security of peace-loving states."
How did the Cold War impacted
Vietnam, Afghanistan, and
Korea
Most people will say the wars in Korea(1950-
1953) and in Vietnam (1946-1954 and again
1961-1975) were direct results of the Cold War.
That is the competition for control and influence
between the capitalist side and the communist
one that lasted from the end of WWII until the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990.
Duck and Cover
Duck and cover is a method of personal protection against the effects
of a nuclear explosion, which the United States government taught to
generations of United States school children from the early 1950s
until 1991, which marked the end of the Cold War.
It was intended to protect them in the event of both an unexpected
nuclear attack, which, they were told, might come at any time
without warning, and in the more likely event of sufficient warning of
a few seconds to minutes being given, but not enough advance notice
to permit an effective evacuation.