Cold War Tensions (Korean War)

On 25 June 1950, the young Cold War suddenly turned hot, bloody and expensive. Within a few days, North Korea's invasion of South Korea brought about a United Nations' "police action" against the aggressors. That immediately produced heavy military and naval involvement by the United States. While there were no thought that the task would be easy, nobody expected that this violent conflict would continue for more than three years. It ended in July 1953.

Cold War Tensions (Atomic Bomb)

This Atomic Bomb was nicknamed the Manhattan Project. This was talked about when F.D.R was president but he died and Harry Truman became president and he decided to drop the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima. 66,000 people were killed at Hiroshima out of a population of 255,000.

Cold War Tensions (Berlin Airlift)

Starving out the population and cutting off their business was their way of gaining control. The Truman administration reacted with a day-by-day airlift which brought much needed food and supplies into the city of West Berlin. This Airbridge to Berlin lasted until the end of September of 1949. on May 12, 1949, the Soviet government yielded and lifted the blockade.

Cold War tensions (Sputnik)

October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.

Summary of the Cold War

The Cold War began after World War two between United States and Soviet Union. Experts say that they called it Cold War because they didnt want to fight directly at each other. there is alot of disagreement about when the Cold War ended. A few believe it ended when the United States and the Soviet Union improved relations during the nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies. Others believe it ended when the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989, or when the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991.

As the Cold War was goin on, on March 1947 Harry Truman(the president)asked congress for 400 million dollars in aid for Greece and Turkey. He argued for the money and this became known as the Truman Doctrine(a plan to give money and military aid to countries threatened by communism).

Experts say the Cold War started because United States wanted all nations to be capitolism but the Soviet Union didnt want to so, they faught. Once the United States won Soviet Union was still communism.