Mason Kim, JH, Wing Fung 9T

Cold War script

Intro slide

Mason: Hello, today we’re going to talk about what happened in the cold war.

Wing Fung: Cold War was basically an arms war with the US and the Soviet Union. They were just showing off how many bombs and how many weapons they had and their technological advancements.

JH: Shall we start the presentation?

2^nd slide

Mason: First a little history of the cold war. Many people believed that the cold war started during WW2 but some people also believe that the Cold War started during the First World War but why is that so?

JH: The Cold War was first mentioned in a book by George Orwell called ‘The Atomic Bomb and You’. Before it was just called a Communist Manifesto but then they decided to call it a Cold War after that as it fitted the ‘war’ perfectly.

3^rd slide

Wing Fung: On June 1945 a conference was held in Potsdam to try and smoothen out their relationships but that didn’t turn out very well… Instead it made their relationship a bit more worse since they accused each other for breaking the treaty.

Mason: Since both sides didn’t want to negotiate Winston Churchill referred to this hostility as an ‘Iron Curtain’

JH: On March 1946 at Fulton Missouri, Winston Churchill explained to the public how the USSR and the US failed to reach an agreement. President Truman of the US thought of this as admirable but Stalin regarded this as a confirmation as a threat to the USSR.

4^th slide

Mason: A week before WWII Germany and the Soviets signed a pact called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which split Poland between the both of them after Germany invades it. Over the next year and a half the 2 traded vital war materials until Germany broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and tried to invade the Soviet’s side of Poland.

5^th slide

Wing Fung: Poland was a very strategic area against the USSR and the US and USSR had been fighting over it. The USSR claimed they were not going to absorb it but make it a free country. However the US wanted Poland back to its rightful owners, The British.

6^th slide

JH: The Cold War didn’t involve actual conflict; it was actually about countries expressing their power and hatred to their enemies. It was a war fought in the shadows and was never officially declared.

Mason: In 194, Britain, France and the US aimed to rebuild Germany’s economy and the democracy on Germany but the USSR refused to help. This angered the US.

7^th slide

Wing Fung: The Soviets believed that the Allied Forces left USSR alone and let them fight Germany alone.

JH: This left the US a really strong impression on the Soviets and this is also the reason of the USSR’s hostility towards the Allied Forces.

8^th slide

Mason: One of the more important areas in the Cold War was an actual war, The Korean War, a free south country with the UN on the side and a communist North with China and Russia.

Wing Fung: The UN brought in troops from countries from the US and even from Ethiopia to fight communism in Korea and stop the invasion.

JH: The war is referred to as the Forgotten War as it is forgotten by many people but in Korea it’s called Yoog ee oo meaning 6-2-5.

9^th Slide

Mason: Although there was a second cold war we won’t go in to much detail on it but it did mainly include the USSR and the US.

10^th slide

Wing Fung: In 1991 the Cold War had finally ended. In the end USSR was fatally weak and therefore on December 25^th of 1991 the Soviet Union was officially dissolved and the Cold War had finally ended.

JH: The picture on the bottom we haven’t talked about it but it’s the Berlin Wall. Once it came tumbling down it marked the near end of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall and many other places show the symbols of the Cold War.

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