The+Cold+War

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It's a big topic - so let's try to get it down to the bare essentials. Cut and paste this page into a new page on your Unit 8 notebook and use it as the beginning of a new set of notes on the early years of the Cold War.

** AN ILLUSTRATED DEFINTION OF THE COLD WAR **





** Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, Creating America, and ABC-CLIO ** · Meeting near the end of WWII (February 1945) - big 3 meet to discuss post war Europe · Germany will be divided, controlled by the Allies · Liberated Eastern European countries will have new elections · United Nations will be formed || ||  || yalta.jpg || || un.gif || || kennan.jpg || || truman.jpg || || marshall.jpg || || airlift.jpg || || nato.png || || PRCFounding.jpg || || korean67.gif || || 180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg || || ||
 * THE YALTA CONFERENCE**
 * THE YALTA CONFERENCE**
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 * THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * --Approved in June 1945 by delegates from 50 nations**
 * - five permanent countries with veto power**
 * -United States, Great Britain, USSR, France, China**
 * -Becomes three vs. two**** ||
 * -CONTAINMENT**
 * --Truman’s approach to the spread of communism**
 * - 'Iron Curtain' on Europe**
 * -Soviet Union (Russia) controlled the 'satellite'**
 * -communism is spreading, but United States wants to contain it to stop another Hitler from rising**
 * -They can's stop it, but they can control it**
 * -Keenan's plan**** || || [[image:file://localhost/Users/cateziegler/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image012.jpg width="304" height="241" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * -Keenan's plan**** || || [[image:file://localhost/Users/cateziegler/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image012.jpg width="304" height="241" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
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 * THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * --Truman’s goal was to contain the spread of communism.**
 * --The Truman Doctrine promised aid to any nations struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom.**
 * -Began by giving Turkey and Greece money and help**
 * -expanded to offer aid to any country**** ||
 * THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * -named for Truman’s secretary of state, George C. Marshall**
 * -Any country offered Aid to contain Communism**
 * -Marshall believes that it is in the U.S.’s power to protect everyone**
 * -Goes against George Washington on foreign policy**** || || [[image:file://localhost/Users/cateziegler/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image016.jpg width="287" height="304" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * -Goes against George Washington on foreign policy**** || || [[image:file://localhost/Users/cateziegler/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image016.jpg width="287" height="304" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
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 * THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**
 * --In 1945 the Allies agreed to divide Germany into four zones, controlled by the U.S., Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The Western powers merged their zones. The Soviet Union felt threatened and blocked access to Berlin which lay within its zone.**
 * --Truman ordered a huge airlift of food, fuel and equipment into Berlin. For nearly a year, US and British cargo planes made 275,000 flights into Berlin until Stalin finally called off the blockade in 1949.**
 * --In May 1949, Germany formally divided into communist East Germany and democratic West Germany.** ||
 * NATO**
 * --The North Atlantic Treaty Organization**
 * --Formed in 1948 as a result of concern over communist control of Eastern Europe.**
 * --The alliance included the U.S., Canada, and 10 Western European nations.**
 * --Member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.** || || [[image:file://localhost/Users/cateziegler/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image020.jpg width="437" height="449" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * --Member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.** || || [[image:file://localhost/Users/cateziegler/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image020.jpg width="437" height="449" caption="nato.png"]] ||
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 * COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * --Communists took over China in 1949 in a civil war**
 * --Mao Zedong became head of the new Communist state.**
 * --Chiang Kai-shek, the Nationalist leader backed by the U.S., fled to Taiwan**
 * --Americans viewed the fall of China as part of a Communist plan to rule the world.** ||
 * THE KOREAN WAR**
 * No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity**** || || [[image:file://localhost/Users/cateziegler/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image024.png width="359" height="450" caption="korean67.gif"]] ||
 * No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity**** || || [[image:file://localhost/Users/cateziegler/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image024.png width="359" height="450" caption="korean67.gif"]] ||
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 * MCCARTHYISM**
 * --Joseph McCarthy was a Republican senator from Wisconsin**
 * --He used the Korean War to fan Americans’ fears of communism**
 * --In 1950 he made a list of 205 State Department officials who he claimed belonged to the Communist Party and launched a hunt for Communists that ruined the careers of thousands of people**
 * --The term McCarthyism came to stand for reckless charges against innocent citizens.**
 * --In 1954, the Senate held televised hearings in which McCarthy accused the US Army of coddling communists. The American public was shocked by McCarthy’s conduct in those hearings, and he faded from public view.** ||
 * THE SPACE RACE—**
 * --In 1957, the superpowers began a race to conquer space**
 * --The Soviet Union launched the world’s first space satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the world.**
 * --American scientists raced to respond and Congress authorized billions of dollars for space research.** ||
 * --American scientists raced to respond and Congress authorized billions of dollars for space research.** ||