balance of terror (cold war)
TRANSCRIPT
A bAlAnce of terror
to get you in the mood
- Lyrics
- People
- …
Attero dominAtus
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sAbAton
What is it about?
Who did you see?
What do they mean with: ‘the eagles wings and beak are broken’?
discuss the song
When was this?
May 1945 (8th) The end of WWII in Europe
But...
15 August (2 September) Japan surrenders = nuclear bombs Hiroshima + Nagasaki.
the war iS over now …
Problem = Soviet Union & others
1949
• DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik; East Germany)
• BDR (Bundesrepublik Deutschland; West Germany)
First atomic bomb of Soviet Union
Korean war
1950 Korean War = North = Soviet Union + China (communism)
= South = UN-force led USA (capitalism)
1953 = Armistice; but hate between SU and USA
The arms race
1952 => first test of an H-bomb by American scientists
1000 x stronger than an atomic bomb
John Foster Dulles
1953 = Stalin died Nikita Khrushchev leader of the Soviet Union
1954 VieTnam War
1965 hungary reacTed
end of 1950’s
Balance of terror
1961 high-educated people - leaving East side of Germany. build the Berlin wall (DDR & BDR)
1962 Cuba = the communist Castro, the USA sent planes
Saw missiles of SU, almost war, negociations
•SU took away missiles + tore down launching areas
•US called of the blockade + missiles away from Turkey
1972 = SALT = SU and UN stop making more weapons