ColdWarBigPic



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 DEFINITION OF THE COLD WAR **

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 * Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, __Creating America,__ and ABC-CLIO **

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 * **THE YALTA CONFERENCE**
 * Meeting near the end of WWII - 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 || [[image:turningpoints09:yalta.jpg width="275" height="216"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:un.gif width="298" height="211"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * secure world peace
 * peace with the Cuban Missile Crisis
 * talked about trying to not have any war in this world
 * created by Roosevelt ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Churchill says that it is an iron curtain that splits the democratic and communist country
 * George Kennan calls for containment!
 * stop the spread of communism
 * Truman loves the Kennan plan
 * [|ABC-CLIO WEBSITE] || [[image:turningpoints09:kennan.jpg width="246" height="177"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom
 * mainly spoke to Greece and Turkey since it was really close to the reds
 * huge amound of money was spent on this program
 * [|TRUMAN DOCTRINE]
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/0/02/20080612090754!Cold_war_europe_military_alliances_map_en.png width="337" height="213" align="center"]] ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN*** Saying United States is the big dog!!!!!
 * Stop the Spread of communism
 * Offered 13 billion dollars in aid to western and southern Europe
 * Help Europe to rebuild
 * [|MARSHALL PLAN]
 * [[image:http://www.euro-webonline.com/world_cultures/images/marshall_plan.jpg width="410" height="279"]] || [[image:turningpoints09:marshall.jpg width="266" height="282"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**
 * Truman by giving a huge amount of food, fuel and equipment to the city
 * 275,000 Flights
 * Stalin called off the blockade
 * Divide Germany into Communist and Democracy ||
 * **NATO**
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * 1948 alarm in communist control in Eastern Europe
 * Alliance with United States, Canada and ten Western Europeans nations.
 * Soviet Union and Easter Europeans for the Warsaw Pact
 * [|NATO] || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Mao Zedong became head of the new Communist state
 * Americans think of it as a takeover of a Communist plot to rule the world
 * Blame the State Department for failing to stop ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Republican senator of Wisconsin
 * Used the Korean War to fan Americans' fear of communism
 * Said that he had a list of people who were part of the Communist Party
 * Wrecked the careers of thousands of people
 * McCarthyism came to stand for reckless charges against innocent citizens
 * McCarthy accused the U.S. Army of "coddling Communists"
 * Then he faded from view
 * [|JOSEPH MCCARTHY] ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * Soviet Union launch the world's first space satellie, Sputnik
 * Freak Americans out
 * Then American scientists launch a satellite
 * First man in Space
 * Landing on the moon
 * [|SPACE RACE EVENTS] || [[image:http://www.thedctraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/buzz-aldren-on-the-moon-thumb.jpg width="459" height="385" align="center"]] ||