WELCOME TO DAY ONE OF THE

COLD WAR UNIT!

Ms. Haibach will be your teacher for the rest of the Unit…

MY TEENAGE FALLOUT QUEEN

1964 - George McKelvey

THE BUTTER BATTLE BOOK

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE COLD WAR:

ATOMIC AGE

“If they [the Japanese] do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this air attack will follow sea and land forces in such numbers and power as they have not yet seen…” President Truman, Press

Release 1945

ATOMIC AGE US, Germany and Russia are working on

Atomic Bombs… The First Public Show of the Atomic

Bombs: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, JapanAugust 6th, 1945August 9th, 1945August 14th, 1945

Atomic Cafe (1982) (9 minutes ish)Docudrama

All material is authentic to the time…

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI The world had never seen this type of

man-made destruction before! Roughly, 190,000 people died from the

bombings. ((How can you count how many people

died when radiation can kill in in days, weeks or years?))

The cities were used to measure the amounts of damage caused by the A-bombs… We were testing on the Japanese!

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF ABOMBS I hated for people to stare at me…. I

secluded myself at home and spent hours before the mirror, looking at my own face. What I saw was ugly hunks of flesh, like lava oozing from a crater wall, covering the left half of my face, with the eyebrow burned off and my eye pulled out of shape. My neck was pulled over to one side, and however much I tried to straighten it out, it wouldn't move back to the normal position.

(Nakayama Shiro, Shi no kage [The Shadow of Death])

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF ABOMBS Just after the atomic bombing, we moved to the

country. From that time I couldn’t do any housework, but went regularly to the doctor for treatment of my injuries and severe diarrhea. About one year after my exposure to the A-bomb, I felt a kind of prick in my body… [My Doctor] said that I had a piece of broken glass in my body… It was a 3 cm (1 inch) long triangular piece of glass … …Almost half my life has been spent in the hospital. The reason for my suffering from one illness after another is simple: my exposure to the A-bomb. Oh, how many times did I wonder, “Why didn’t I die at that time …?”

Shizuko Nishimoto

YALTA CONFERENCE

February 4-11, 1945

Big Three: Stalin, Roosevelt,

Churchill Purpose:

Reorganize Europe

Keeping peace

DECISIONS AT YALTA “democratic institutions of their [a

liberated country’s] own choice” Including Poland… (later slide)

Russian aid in the Pacific War United Nations Creation of four occupation zones in

Germany

RIFT BETWEEN WEST AND EAST Atomic Café:

“Year of Division”

RUSSIA AND THE WESTERN WORLD Russia had previously been thought of

as weakWWI…

Russia held most of Eastern and Central Europe at the end of WWII!

Stalin wanted a “buffer zone” between Russia and the West.Protection

Stalin thought the West wanted to maintain imperialism

THE WEST’S OPINION OF RUSSIA

The Soviet actions were “part of a worldwide Communist conspiracy.” –According to US POVWe thought they wanted to take over the

globe…

West wanted free elections (to have democracies instituted) throughout Europe

"[I]t was not a question of what… [the West] would let the Russians do, but what we could get the Russians to do.“ --James F. Byrnes–

((What Byrnes trying to describe?)) ((What is the significance? OR what

significant problems can you hypothesize he is alluding to?))

POLAND- SOURCE OF CONFLICT As discussed in Yalta, Stalin had agreed

to let Poland have free elections. The Polish gov’t in exile was not

welcomed back into Poland. The Polish gov’t was being reformed

with only Communists members After complaints by the US, Russia

conceded to allow 2 of the previous Polish gov’t back into Poland.

COALITIONS TO COMMUNIST In many of the post-war countries,

coalitions with communists were present After all, the Communists had helped to

fight against the Nazis. After a year or two of relatively equal

coalitions, Communist members would take the majority of the political power.