COLD WAR

WHY THIS TOPIC?

WHAT IS IT?

• It was actually not a war
• Bad relation between:
• United States & Soviet Union
• Started approximately in 1940
• "It has not ended"

CAUSES

• WWII
• Different political ideas
• Hunger for power
• Fear between the nations
• Imperialism

CLIENT STATES

• Germany
• Cuba
• Hungary
• Korean (South & North)

GERMANY

• 1945-1990
• Division of Germany into east and west
• West-USA
• East-URSS
• Sucess with capitalisim

CUBA

• October, 1962
• Missile crisis
• Cuba had the NATO support
• The Cold War almost nuclear conflict
• John F. Kennedy

HUNGARY

• Hungarian Revolution of 1956
• It used to be democratic
• The USSR had the control
• Communism was expanded

KOREA (SOUTH & NORTH)

• 1950-1953
• Southern part-USA
• Northern part-URSS
• There was already a crisis
• Expand their political ideas

CULTURAL EFFECTS

• The Berlin Wall was demolish
• The two Germanys: unify
• Many cultures were sacrificied
• Division between client states

ECONOMICAL EFFECTS

• Economical crisis
• The Soviet Union collapsed
• The military blocs NATO and The Warsaw Pact
• Construction of huge arsenals of:
• Atomic weapons and ballistic missiles

POLITICAL EFFECTS

• Client states lost their sovereignty
• Communism was spread out
• United Nation it was more involved
• NATO and Warsaw Pact

CONCLUSION