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 **



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

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**
 * Was a Result of the Yalta Conference
 * Permanent Members: U.S., The U.K., France, Soviet Union, and China.
 * Goal was to keep peace and prevent another war.
 * Help countried rebuild from after WWII ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * 'The Iron Curtain
 * War of Communism vs. Democracy
 * Attempted to Contain and stop the spread of comunism.(failed)
 * The U.S. is the Super Power vs. USSR || [[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 people struggling to resist theats of communism.
 * Non-military way to compat communism. ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * To Prevent Spread of Communism
 * Helped Econmies of War-Torn Nations in Europe.
 * George Marshall Started it.
 * Offerd 13,000,000,000 to aid these nations and help them resist 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**
 * Was to Get rations to West Berlin
 * Berlin Divided West(Democratic) and East(Communist)
 * Berlin Wall Built
 * May, 1949 stalin cancels blockade. ||
 * **NATO**
 * The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed in 1948 as there was an alarm over communism in Western Europe.
 * The NATO alliance included U.S., Canada, and Western Europe.
 * The U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe formed the Warsaw Pact in response to NATO. || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Lead by Mao Zedong
 * Americans were shocked at the events in China
 * Believed it was a Communist Plot to take over the world.
 * Americans FEARFUL of the "Reds" ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Blaimed People of being communist with normally no evidence or backround of this
 * Ruined many many peoples lives (includeing my GreatGrandfathers)
 * Joseph Mccarthy was a Wisconsin Republican Senator.
 * Charged With inproper Conduct.
 * Eventually just faded away. ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * The Space race was a race to space between the U.S. and the USSR begins in 1957.
 * Russians get first orbital satelite called "Sputnik".
 * Cost BILLIONS OF us taxpayer dollars.
 * Yuri Gagarin first Human in space (Russian)
 * Soviets started with large lead but it quickly was demolished.
 * Neil Armstrong: First Human to touch the surface of the Moon, 1969.... With Buzz Aldrin. ||  ||

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