COLD WAR: HISTORY

OF THE COLD WAR

Directed by: Hannah Green
Contents

American VS Soviet Union

The Leader of Soviet Union; Joseph Stalin
The development of Atomic Weapons
Going into the Space Race
Kennedy makes a bold public clam to US
Communism; McCarthyism, Red Scare
The Distrust between America and Soviet Union
AMERICA VS SOVIET UNION
America Vs Soviet Union

Soviet Union’s tyrant ruler, Joseph Stalin

The long refusal help for the USSR from America

Ten million deaths of Russians was the cost of no help

Was a hostile atmosphere to have but it was impossible to stop

JOSEPH STALIN
Soviet Union’s Dictator
Joseph Stalin, Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

He served first on Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party

Stalin continued to climb up the political power
1922, Stalin became secretary general of Central Committee of the Communist Party
By the late 20’s Stalin had become dictator of the Soviet Union
Stalin’s government took control of the farms
Many farmers were either shot or exiled for their punishment
From this lead to the widespread of famine across the Soviet Union that lead to kill
millions
He had a totalitarian grip on the government in order to eliminate anyone that stood in
his way
JOSEPH STALIN
Joseph Stalin, Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Soviet Union, he sent people to the Gulag system

People were forced into labor camps
His rule lead to the cities that were renamed in his honor
Soviet history books were rewritten to give Stalin a more prominent role in the
revolution and mythologize other aspect in his life
The government took control of the Soviet media
Finally on May 5th in 1953 died at the age of 74 by suffering a stroke
His body was preserved in Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square until 1961
Joseph Stalin, Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
ARMS RACE
Development of Atomic Weapons
Arms Race

America developed a more destructive atomic weapon: hydrogen bomb, or the

“Superbomb”
The first H-bomb test was on Eniwetok, Marshall Islands
 This showed how fearsome the nuclear age could be come
 The blast created a 25- square-mile fireball that vaporized a whole entire island
 Also blew a hole in the ocean floor

With the nuclear annihilation, this effected on the American’s domestic life
Families built bomb shelters in their own backyards
Schools practiced attack drills and other public places
SPACE RACE
Space Exploration

1952- International Council of Scientific Unions was establish

From July 1st, 1957 to December 31st, 1958 was the year of IGY
 IGY- International Geophysical Year

July 1955, the White house plans to launch an Earth-orbiting satellite for IGY

This proposal was solicited form various Government research agencies to undertake
development

September 1955, the Naval Research Laboratory's Vanguard proposal: chosen to

represent the U.S. during the IGY
Space Exploration

On October 4th, 1957 the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I
 World’s first artificial satellite
 Size was about a beach ball

This technical achievement caught the American people off guard

 The public feared the Soviets’ ability to have such technology

Soviet’s struck again with Sputnik II

 This could carry a heavier payload
 Including a dog name Laika

U.S. Defense Department responded by approving funding for another U.S. satellite
project
Space Race

January 31st, 1958, the tides have change; United States launch Explorer I

By the same year President Eisenhower signed a public order, which created the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration aka NASA

Soviets were one step closer on launching the first man in outer space in April 1961

Month after Alan Shepard became the first American man was launch into space
PRESIDENT F.
KENNEDY
His bold public claim: the U.S. would land a man on the
moon by the end of the decade
PRESIDENT
KENNEDY’S MOON
SPEECH
Space Race

President F. Kennedy spoke at the Rice Stadium on September 12th, 1962

He claim that U.S. can send a man to the moon by the end of the decade

Kennedy’s prediction came true in 1969

Neil Armstrong of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission; he was the first man to step in the moon

Which effectively winning the Space Race for Americans

NEIL ARMSTRONG’S
SAYING
RED SCARE
McCarthyism, Communism, etc.
Red Scare

It began in 1947, as the House of Un-American Activates Committee (HUAC) brought
the Cold War home
Fewer the 50,000 Americans out of the U.S. population of 150 million ere members of
the Communist Party.
From late 40’s to the early 50’s American’s feared of the international communism that
reached a nearly hysterical pitch
Teachers, steelworkers, sailors, lawyers, and social workers lost their jobs on thinking
that they were communist
Libraries pulled books that ere considered to leftist from their shelves
 These banned volumes included the classics as Robin Hood, Henry David Thoreau’s Civil
Disobediences, and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
McCarthyism

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin

 A short, dumpy, balding Irish-American
 A fatal passion for alcohol

McCarthy possessed the charm and temperament of a storm trooper

He was put in charge of Committee on Government Operations
The fall of McCarthy was that he tried to accused the U.S. Army of being communist
He kept his job but lost his power
Age of 48, dies of an illness exacerbated by alcoholism
JOSEPH MCCARTHY
Until Next Time