Transcript THE 1950s: Background factors of the cold war

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The Berlin Blockade and airliftwhat happened?
THE 1950S: BACKGROUND
FACTORS TO THE COLD WAR
Y10 GCSE History
Lesson Objectives
• Describe NATO and Warsaw Pacts
• Analyse sources about the creation of
NATO
• Evaluate whether the creation of defence
treaties only increased tensions between
the East and the West
Important Events
•NATO
•The Korean War
•The Arms Race
What is NATO?
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• After the blockade of Berlin, Western powers met in
Washington and signed the North Atlantic treaty on April
4th 1949
• The treaty meant that member states would work together
on a number of issues
• The main issue was collective defence- its member states
agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any
other nation/s
Task
• Using the sources on P333, answer
the following question:
• What evidence is there in sources 37-
41 to indicate that NATO was a purely
defensive alliance?
Interpretations:
Source Analysis and Evaluation
Source 37
• Article 3: To achieve the
aims of this Treaty, the
Parties will keep up their
individuals and collective
capacity to resist armed
attack.
• Article 5: The Parties agree
that an armed attack against
one or more of them in
Europe or North America
shall be considered an
attack against them all”
• Extracts from the NATO
charter
Source 38
• “The Soviet government did
everything it could to prevent
the world from being split into
two military blocks. The soviet
Union issued a special
statement analysing the grave
consequences of affecting the
entire international situation
that would follow from the
establishment of a military
alliance of Western powers. All
these warnings failed, however,
and the North Atlantic Treaty
came into being.”
• Stalin commenting on the
formation of NATO, 1949
Source 39
Source 40
Source 40-“Your play, Joe”
How did the Soviets and its allies react?
• In 1955, The Warsaw Pact was signed by The Soviet
Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary
Poland, Romania and Albania
• It was a mutual defence treaty-similar to NATO and was
operate alongside COMECON
• But it was seen as being primarily motivated by the
Soviets’ desire to maintain control over military forces in
Central and Eastern Europe
Question
• Did the establishment of the two treaty
organisations in the 1950s only stand
to increase tensions between the East
and the West?
• Write one argument FOR and one
argument AGAINST
The Korean War
Lesson Objectives
• Explain what happened in the
Korean War
• Evaluate the USA’s role in the
conflict
The Korean War
• The Korean War
• Using information from the video and
P338 of the textbook, answer the
questions on the worksheet
Review
• 1. How were North and South Korea formed?
• 2. Why did the conflict start?
• 3. Why did the USA want to intervene?
• 4. What role did the United Nations play in the conflict?
• 5. What other country became involved in this war?
• 6. How did the war eventually come to an end?
How well do you think the USA reacted to the war in
Korea? Analyse both sides of the argument
Positively
Negatively
Plenary
• NATO is…
• The Warsaw Pact was…
• The Korean War was…