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 **






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

-formed by the Yalta conference -group of nations supposed to end problems through discussion -sends troops to Korea anyway || -The goal of containment was to stop the spread of communism. -This was the Truman Administration's main strategy in the war. -The United States would work in military and nonmilitary ways to contain communism. || || -Truman announced the Truman Doctrine, which promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom. || -The United States hoped to prevent the spread of communism and needed to come up with a plan to revive the war-torn economics of Eurpoe. -The Marshall Plan offered $13billion in aid to western and southern Europe. -The plan helped the nations of Europe rebuild. || || -Berlin is divided into East and West Berlin and controlled by Soviets - 1948: Stalin wants western powers to abandon city - orders troops to block access -Truman approves airlift of food, fuel, equipment and other needs into city -about 275,000 flights to Berlin made by U.S. and British cargo planes - 1949: Stalin calls off blockaden || -North Atlantic Treaty Organization -formed in 1948 -alliance that included the United States, Canada, many West European nations -prompted Soviets and East Europeans to send Warsaw Pact || || -In 1949, the Communists defeated the anticommunist Nationalists in a civil war in China -Mao Zedong became the head of the new Communist state. -Americans viewed the takeover as part of a Communist plot to rule the world. -American fear of communism grew. || No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || || -February 1950 said he had a list of 205 State Department officials who belonged to the Communist party. - also accused army of "coddling communists" - Senate held hearings, no one was proved -ruined jobs and lives for many people - was finally criticized by congress || || -1957 began the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States - the Soviet Union put Sputnik into orbit, scaring the U.S. - United States responded, putting billions of dollars away for research ||
 * **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**
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**
 * **NATO**
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * **THE SPACE RACE**