Alliances of the Cold War 1949-1955

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Alliances of the Cold War1949-1955
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Nuclear Bomb

• 1949-Soviet Union Tests their 1st Atomic Bomb
• The world is now faced with possibility of
  complete NUCLEAR WARFARE

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Berlin Airlift Development of Nuclear
Bomb raises Cold War tension
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NATO

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
• Alliances with other countries
• Promised to protect NATO members with armed
  forces
• U.S., Canada 10 western nations
• Great Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, the
  Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway,
  Switzerland, and Italy.

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Warsaw Pact 1955

• Soviets form Warsaw Pact
• Response to threat of NATO
• Pledge to defend each other
• Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Hungary,
  Czechoslovakia, Romania, Albania, and Bulgaria

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NATO Countries
Warsaw Countries
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The World In 1955

• Two Super Powers
• Nuclear Capability
• Two Ideologies
• Communism vs. Democracy
• Each attempt to limit growth
• Each side trying to stop the spread of communism
  or democracy

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Brinkmanship

• A willingness to go to the edge of War
• Example Cuban Missile Crisis
• Each side began producing stockpiles of Nuclear
  Arms
• Became known as the ARMS RACE

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U.S.A Soviet Union

• Democracy Communism
• NATO Warsaw
• Marshall Plan Molotov Plan
• Containment Iron Curtain

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1910
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1920
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1950
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1970
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Conflicts of Cold War

• Korean War (1950 - 1953)
• Ends with a divided Korea (communist in North)
• Cuban Revolution (1959)
• Ends with a communist Cuba
• Vietnam War (1960 - 1973)
• Ends with a communist Vietnam
• U-2 Incident (1960)
• Soviets shot down a U.S. spy plane
• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
• U.S. Soviets go to edge of Nuclear War

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U-2 Incident
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The NEW risk of WAR