Why the Cold War is so important for us?
- After Hiroshima and Nagasaki the Word found out, that thanks to nuclear weapons Word could be destroy in “no time”
- They had to figure out wals that will not lead to armed conflict
BEFORE
Jalta and Potsdam conferentions 1945
o The political tention between USA and Soviet Union begun
· Truman Doctrine 1947
o Conflict of foreign Russian and American politics because of questions of financial support of Turkey and Greece – US effort to stop Russian expansion
DURING
Important characters: H. Truman, R. Reagan, W. Churchill, J.V. Stalin, M.Gorbachev
· Berlin Blockade
o Berlin wall – 1961-1989 (Berlin airlift)
o Berlin was divided into two parts and Soviet Union built the Berliner Wall to control western Berlin, but Allies made „Berlin airlift“ to support western Berliners)
· The Korean war (1950-1953), The Vietnam war (1950-1953) – these wars increased the tention between USSR and USA and served as a demonstration of their power
· Cuban missile crisis 1962
o The tention escaladed because of Russian missiles on Cuba
o Thankfuly the problem was solved peacefuly
· Space race
o 60’s, 70’s
o Race for reaching advance in space technology
§ Satelite TV – 1960s (NASA needed a way to talk with astronauts)
§ Laptops (1983)
§ Programmable pacemakers, blood pressure machina
§ GPS navigation
§ 3D graphics
§ Joystick for video games
o 1957 – Sputnik – first satellite on orbit
o 1961 – Gagarin – firt man on orbit (in space)
o 1969 – first man on the Moon - Armstrong
o 1975 – agreement on cooperation in space technology programms
· Espionage
o A game of „chess“ between East and West
o CIA, KGB, Klaus Fuchs – famous conspirator against USA
END
· 1989
o Soviet Union colapsed
· Consequences of Cold war
o Improvement of technology
§ Nuclear, chemical weapons - International treaties to destroy them
§ Radiation, space technologies – Small computers, transistors
§ Communication technologies
o Influence of international politics
o Economic crisis in Russia and post-soviet countries
fivem
(WilliePex, 2. 1. 2022 6:10)