kathleen krall's List: Cold War

• Negotiation 1945

   
   
  • Yalta - The Cold War Begins 
  • End of the War in Europe May 7 
  • End of the War in Asia Aug. 15 
  • First Year of the Cold War

• What was the Cold War
• Causes of the Cold War in 1945
• Europe in 1945
• 1945-1950
• Berlin after 1945
• The Hungarian Uprising of 1956
• The Berlin Wall
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Prague Spring of 1968
• Detente
• Russian invasion of Afghanistan

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• In the late 1980s, the Cold War came to a dramatic end. The economies of nations behind the Iron Curtain were in trouble. People in East Germany, for instance, could see the prosperity and wealth of their West German neighbors. In Russia, there were long lines of people waiting to buy food. They had to have coupons from the government just to buy socks. Some historians believe that the trillions of dollars that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. spent on nuclear arms and conventional armies had caused the problems in Russia. There was also a lot of pent up demand for freedom in the citizens living behind the Iron Curtain.

• Part I: The Beginnings of the Cold War
• Part VI: Nuclear Dangers
• Part VII: The End of the Cold War
• Part IV: At the Brink

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