Cold+War

=**//"The success of this occupation can only be judged fifty years from now. If the Germans//**= =**//at that time have a stable, prosperous democracy, then we shall have succeeded".//**= =Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945=

NATO Countries Vs. Warsaw Pact Countries Early //**NATO**// countries: **//US, Canada, UK, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, W. Germany, Spain, Turkey//** Original **//Warsaw Pact//** Countries: **//USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East. Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania//**
 * Cold War Terms:**
 * Capitalism, Communism Nuclear Arms Race, The Iron Curtain, Berlin Airlift, The Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Containment, NATO & Warsaw Pact, McCarthyism, Sputnik, Satellite nations, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg**

Click below to see an animated map of Europe during the Cold War [|Cold War Map] = = //**"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain**// //**has descended across the Continent".**// Winston Churchill- 1946 speech at Westminster College in MO. "Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. //**Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government**// //**except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".**// Winston Churchill-1947 speech President Harry Truman- 1950 (Special message to Congress about dealing with communism) and //**"The Buck Stops Here"**// see the actual sign that sat on President Truman's desk here [|Desk Sign]
 * //[[image:churchill.jpg width="349" height="353"]]Winston Churchill photo google images//**
 * //"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition,//**
 * //it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures,//**
 * //until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone//**
 * //lives in fear".//**

[|President Harry S. Truman] Executive order 9981 is signed in the summer of 1948 ending desegregation in the military after a long fight about the issue within the Democratic Party. "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." More on the desegregation of the US Military here [|Executive Order 9981] Go here to read a great article explaining the desegregation of the US military. [] After reading the article, please answer these questions: 1. When was the US military desegregated? 2. Who was the President? 3. What "executive order" was it? 4. How did some Democrats respond?


 * Communism (USSR)- System in which all property and resources are collectively owned by a “classless” society and not by individual citizens based on philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Socialism is a less intense form of communism. **
 * Capitalism (US)- Economic system based on private ownership of (capital, land, labor) employed for the purpose of making profits. It is the oldest and most common of all economic systems also known as the “free market system”. **

East and West Germany and Berlin (East and West) after WW2

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media type="youtube" key="9gpYsK90aio" width="560" height="315" History of the [|U.N.] [|What was the Berlin Airlift?] Read about the famous "Candy bomber" also known as "Uncle Wiggily Wings" here [|Operation Little Vittles] media type="youtube" key="iKEmFYJdBQw" width="560" height="315"

"Reds", Hollywood and Senator McCarthy [|President Dwight D. Eisenhower] //**"In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics you never know".**// //**"A people that values it's privileges above its principles soon loses both".**// President Eisenhower See the notes on "Ike" here:

Race to Space Operation Castle on the Bikini Atoll [|Atomic Tests] Fallout: media type="custom" key="14688856"media type="custom" key="15455296" media type="custom" key="23060352"

Brief notes on Korea

Mr. Johnson's dad on the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea circa 1953 He was a radar man in Grumman AD4W aircraft seen below.

1950s Pop Culture

[|Levittown information] about "Levittowners" media type="youtube" key="OoQmCMUDB_4" width="560" height="315"

The Civil Rights Movement: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Castro newsclip media type="custom" key="9478924" "If in doubt...kill him" Che Guevara "Cuban boat people" photo taken by Alexa Hoffmann

Kennedy Vs. Nixon. The first televised presidential debate.media type="custom" key="9454702"media type="custom" key="23103374" media type="custom" key="16989988" media type="custom" key="16990246"media type="custom" key="23119648" "It was the TV more than anything that turned the tide" Said by President Kennedy four days after winning the presdential election. map found on thinkquest.

Thirteen Days

Go here to read the important facts on Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: [|Eyewitness to President Kennedy's assassination]

[|President Lyndon B. Johnson] Map of the Vietnam War: Vietnam

1960s music media type="custom" key="11939434"Bob Hope and the Troops! July 20th, 1969 the United States is the first and only country (so far) to land humans on the Moon! []

Construction for the Berlin Wall begins [|August 15, 1961] Great introduction to the Berlin Wall: media type="custom" key="6333999"

"Walled In"-Great animated documentary about the Berlin Wall: media type="custom" key="6333859"

Photo of the Berlin Wall in the west. Notice the graffiti.

The Berlin Wall []

Photos Mr. J took in 1984