cold war tensions (korea)

Korea is a cold war tension because it was split in half by communists and nationalists. The communist leader was Mao Zedong and the nationalist leader was Chaing Kai-Shek. It was separated by the US, the nationalists were in the south and communists were in the north. The US did this because of our foreign policy of containment. The US split the country with a line called the 38th parallel. later on though the north had invaded the south and started the korean war. The US suported the south so they could hopefully stop the spread of communism.

cold war tension (U-2 INCIDENT)

the US was flying planes over the USSR investingating there weapons over there using U-2 planes. before that though the US tried to ask the USSR if they would agree to "open skies". the USSR said no though but we still flew over it anyway. the U-2 was the type of plane that we picked to do the spying with. But one day they had found out about one of our planes and threatened that if they did it again they would shoot it down. we still did it anyway and on the day of May 1, 1960 they did shoot it down thus killing one of our people named Francis Gary Powers.

cold war tensions (H-bomb)

The H-bomb was made from hydrogen isotopes which is basically what the H means. The H-bomb was made during the arms race against the soviet union to see who could make the most powerful weapon the fastest. the H-bomb uses nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes as its energy. it is more powerful than the A-bomb. it was made by the same person who had invented the A-bomb(Robert Openheimer). it was first tested on November 1, 1952. the soviet union had launched there first one on August 1953.

cold war tensions (McCarthyism)

McCarthyism was created by a man named McCarthy. He would basically just accuse people who he would assume believed in communism even though there wouldn't be any evidence. He was against it of course but he just kept scaring citizens of the US about. he would say things such as that the government would be doing nothing to help with it. people being blamed for the sympathizing communism were being questioned and were being investigated by the government. the main people being targeted by the people who believed in McCarthyism were employees who worked for the government.

Cold War Tension (SPUTNIK)

Sputnik was a satellite that was made by the USSR and was launched October 4, 1957. It was made so that the USSR could be better than the US and it worked because it made us feel inferior to the USSR most likely because it was the first one launched that was man-made. After they made they had started the space race. So we decided to try and make our own satellite to try and beat them but a lot of our attempt had failed. On the date of January 31, 1958 we finally got to launch our own first satellite into space.

covering cold war

After ww 2 Russia(a former alli of the U.S.) wanted to spread its influence of communism across the globe. The united states didnt like it so we decided to try and stop russia from spreading there influence across the world and so the U.S. and Russia became enemies. the U.S. created created plans/laws to help other countries in europe so that they would not be convinced into communism and some countries went into communism for the fact that they needed something or could have used another larger country to stablize there own country. some countries could have needed food or money and that was what Russia would bribe the countries to join them. and so the cold war was started.


People in the U.S were worring about wether or not communism would take control over the united states as it did to the other countries in europe. Along with the fact of communism spreading a man named McCarthy was also helping scare the people of the U.S. by telling them some bad facts about the government and communism which probley wasnt even meant to be said at all. Thus he started McCarthyism. later on in the cold war china fell to communism and there new leader was Mao Zedong. The United States tried to help the other part of nationalists but failed trying. soon after north korea went into communism while the south didnt and the U.S. helped south Korea but later north korea declared war on south korea by invading. also in the cold war russia and the united states had to decide who got germany because they were both responsible for beating germany during ww 2. russia ended up splitting germany in half with the berlin wall because the wall was built between the capital city of germany which was Berlin. the united states also aided them by doing the berlin airlift and aiding people in Berlin.