Cold+War+Big+Pic

The Cold War Big Picture and Early Years 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 **



Note to Mr. Taft - The other slide of Cold War notes got deleted. When we were trying to put our war protest posters on our wikispaces, it got messed up and now I can't get the original one with the notes about the Cold War.

Note to Andrew - your note is noted


 * Cold War -** A state of competition, tension, and hostility between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies between WWII and the early 1990s.
 * 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" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:un.gif width="298" height="211" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * Group of nations trying to work together to secure world peace
 * Much stronger than League of Nations becasue United States joined
 * In June 1945, 50 nations approved charther of UN.
 * 5 permanent members of the Security Council - United States, Great
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Truman's policy on communism
 * He wanted to contain communism, or in other words, he was fine if it
 * Military and nonmilitary (diplomatic) actions || [[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**
 * Promised aid to impoverished refugees and struggling civilians
 * They must support democractic freedom
 * Meant to stop the spread of communism ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Named for Secretary of State, George C. Marshall.
 * Offered $13 billion in aid to western and southern Europe.
 * Meant to stop the spread of communism. || [[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**
 * Germany was divided into 4 zones, controlled by France, Great Britain,
 * Western powers meged their zones into Western Germany.
 * Berlin was also split into east and west, but was in the eastern zone.
 * Soviet forces blockaded West Berlin.
 * So, Truman authorized planes to drop food, fuel, and equipment into
 * **NATO**
 * Formed in 1948.
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * Included United States, Canada, and Western European nations
 * For protection against Communist control of Eastern Europe
 * In response, Soviet Union formed Warsaw Pact || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * In September 1949, Communists beat Nationalists in Chinese Civil War
 * Mao Zedong, leader of the Communists, established the People's
 * American fear of Communism grew because China was by far the largest
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Used Korean War to increase fear of Communism
 * In February 1950, he announced he had a list of 250 Communists in the
 * In the spring of 1954, the Senate held hearings of McCarthy against the
 * Senate issued a statement criticizing his conduct and he faded from
 * His "list" ruined the careers of thousands of people.
 * McCarthyism now means reckless charges aginst innocent citizens. ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * Began in 1957, with the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite.
 * Americans spent billions of dollars to research about space and get a
 * Then Soviets got first man into space, Yuri Gagarin in 1961.
 * The conclusion was the American moon landing of Neil Armstrong and