About This Lesson
This PowerPoint covers the Post-World War II period and the evolution of communism. From this point, the Cold War is covered through the Truman Doctrine, Berlin Airlift, Russia attaining the Atomic Bomb, the fall of China, the Korean War, the Rosenberg's, the Hydrogen Bomb, Sputnik, the rise of Castro in Cuba, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Test Ban treaties, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, Detente, Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, Olympic Boycotts, Josef Stalin, Harry Truman, Mao Zedong, Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khruschev, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Lyndon Johnson, Leonid Breschnev, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the eventual fall of communism.
