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Chapter 31 – Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Cold War Era

Chapter 31 – Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Cold War Era. General Dwight D. Eisenhower tours bombed out Warsaw, Poland. WWII caused massive destruction throughout the European continent.

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Chapter 31 – Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Cold War Era

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  1. Chapter 31 – Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Cold War Era

  2. General Dwight D. Eisenhower tours bombed out Warsaw, Poland. WWII caused massive destruction throughout the European continent.

  3. Prime Minister Winston Churchill views the remains of the bombed out House of Commons chamber in London, England

  4. The Eastern Bloc (Territory either directly controlled by the U.S.S.R. of under its influence)

  5. The Iron Curtain • From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. …all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.

  6. The Iron Curtain

  7. The Marshall Plan

  8. Marshall Plan

  9. Partition of Berlin

  10. NATO Countries

  11. Warsaw Pact Nations

  12. Cold War Arms Race U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev continued a massive build-up of weapons in fear of an impending nuclear war during the Cold War crisis.

  13. Containment Measures • 1) The Truman Doctrine – aimed at Greece and Turkey • 2) Marshall Plan – aid to W. Europe • 3) Central Intelligence Agency – to gather info. worldwide on communist espionage activities. • 4) The Berlin Airlift • 5) Korean War • 6) Cuban Missile Crisis • 7) Vietnam Conflict • These are just a few of the main ones.

  14. Korean War

  15. Cuban Missile Crisis

  16. Cuban Missile Crisis(Range of Missiles)

  17. Vietnam War (1968-1975)

  18. Ho Chi Minh Trail

  19. Vietcong Tunnels

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