Transcript Unit: The Cold War Topic: Crisis in Germany

Unit: The Cold War
Topic: Crisis in Germany
1. Puzzle
Pieces
A. The division
and
occupation of
Germany after
WWII was
supposed to
be temporary.
B. Soon, Britain,
France and
the U.S.
combined
their zones to
form West
Germany.
C. Stalin refused to reunite
East Germany because
he feared a strong,
united Germany.
D. Berlin, the divided
German capital, was
located in East Germany.
2. The
Berlin Airlift
A. The Soviet
Union blocked
the Western
Allies' railway
and road access
to the parts of
Berlin under
Allied control to
force the
Western powers
to allow the
Soviet zone to
start supplying
Berlin with food
and fuel,
thereby giving
the Soviets
control over the
entire city.
B. In response, the
West mounted an
airlift; for almost
a year, supplies
were flown into
W. Berlin.
C. This forced Stalin to end the blockade.
The Berlin Airlift
3. Goodbye,
East
Germany!
A. Stalin
installed a
Communist
gov’t in East
Germany.
B. He built the Berlin Wall in 1961, separating free
West Berlin from communist East Berlin.
Berlin Wall
5. NATO and
the
Arms Race
A. In 1949,
the U.S.,
Canada,
and nine
other
nations
formed
the North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organization
(NATO)
to protect
themselves
from
Communism.
C. In response,
Stalin formed the
Warsaw Pact,
in which
Communist
nations protected
each other from
democracy.
D. Both the U.S. and the
Soviet Union
participated in an
arms race, spending
billions in developing
new and better
weapons.
"The nuclear
arms race is
like two sworn
enemies
standing waist
deep in
gasoline, one
with three
matches, the
other with
five."
 - Carl Sagan

Nuclear Arms Race
Cold War DBQ Essay Test!
DBQs:
6 points each
Essay: 52 points
YOU MUST USE 5
DOCUMENTS IN YOUR ESSAY!
DUE: Friday, March 4 – THIS
WILL NOT COUNT for your 5
week progress reports!