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 DEFINTION OF THE COLD WAR **


 * 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
 * successor of League of Nations
 * countries work together to secure global peace
 * 5 permanent member = original allies from WW2 = US, Britain, France, Russia, and China
 * headquarters in New York City
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * stop the spread of communism
 * military and nonmilitary ways to stop communism
 * || [[image:turningpoints09:kennan.jpg width="246" height="177"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * promised aid to people and countries with threats to their democracies
 * meant to enforce US policy of containment
 * majority of aid was financial to Greece and Turkey
 * precursor to the Marshall Plan
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * named for Truman's Secretary of State, George C. Marshall
 * $13 billion in aid to western and southern European countries
 * helps nations rebuild to avoid takeover by communist governments
 * || [[image:turningpoints09:marshall.jpg width="266" height="282"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT
 * Berlin is divided into east and west. East = Soviets & West = Allies
 * Soviets blockade all access to Berlin in 1948
 * Truman responds w/ airlift to Berlin with food, fuel, and equipment
 * over 270,000 flights by U.S and British planes made to Berlin
 * Blockade ends 5/12/49 when Soviets concede defeat
 * **NATO
 * In 1948, with fear of communism in Europe North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed
 * members - US, Canada, and 10 other Western European countries
 * Warsaw Pact formed as a response to NATO
 * "ultimate symbol for NATO's existence " = demolition of Berlin Wall
 * North Atlantic Council (NAC) - highest civilian authority of NATO
 * || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA
 * 9/49 - Mao Zedong and Communists defeat US support Nationalists in Chinese Civil War
 * Zedong becomes first leader of Communist China
 * Nationalists flee to Taiwan and Americans blame State department
 * American fear for communism increases (Red Scare) with containment policy failure
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * Nationalists flee to Taiwan and Americans blame State department
 * American fear for communism increases (Red Scare) with containment policy failure
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg]] || **MCCARTHYISM
 * definition - reckless charges against innocent citizens
 * Senate hearings held with McCarthy v. Army, but McCarthy was unsuccessful in every single case
 * Both Army and US Senate ask for McCarthy to stop and he fades away from the public
 * **THE SPACE RACE
 * Soviets send first satellite in space with Sputnik in October 1957
 * USSR sends first human to space and also has the first human orbit the Earth
 * US wins the big one by send Apollo 11 to the moon
 * Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
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