The+Cold+War 



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

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

> communism to spread No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || ||
 * **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" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:un.gif width="298" height="211" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * To solve conflicts without war
 * Headquarters in New York
 * U.S., France, Great Britain, and China have veto power ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Iron Curtain has descended on Europe, and U.S. doesn't want
 * George Kenan calls for containment
 * America's Policy: containment || [[image:turningpoints09:kennan.jpg width="246" height="177" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * Stop the spread of communism
 * By giving people money
 * Mostly Turkey and ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Marshall has a plan to give foreign countries money to stop the spread of red
 * Marshall thinks the U.S. is Spider man. || [[image:turningpoints09:marshall.jpg width="266" height="282" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**
 * America brought planes during the airlift
 * In 1948 Stalin hoed to force the Western powers to abandon the city
 * His forces blocked areas of Berlin
 * Truman approved of an airlift of food, fuel and other supplies into the city
 * For about a year U.S. and British cargo planes were used
 * Went to the city's residents
 * By May 1949 Germany was spilt into two, East communist, West Republican ||
 * **NATO**
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * Each memeber of nation would treat an attack on any other member as an attack on itself
 * In response the Soviets formed the Warsaw Pact against its allies
 * Soviets developed nuclear weapons
 * A race for military dominence began || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Communists took over China
 * Thousands of Chinese Communists troops attacked a river in North Korea ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * accusing people of being disloyal
 * poeple thought that other people were spies
 * everybody was pointing fingers at eachother
 * kind of like the Salem Witch Trials ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || * The Soviets got the first man in space
 * Us got the first two manned spaceship into space
 * Us were the first people on the moon ||