The+Cold+War

C opy this page onto a new page in your online notebook. To get an overview of the origins of the Cold War, begin by reading [|Allies to Enemies: Origins of the Cold War] from ABC-CLIO. **Use pages 794-799 in //Creating America// and** **[|“The Cold War” research list on ABC-CLIO]** **to** **develop a complete description** **for each event or idea from the early years of the Cold War.****This information will help set the stage for tomorrow's activity. Use the first entry as an example for detail.**


 * **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
 * USSR is given great influence over Eastern Europe, and new government must be "Soviet freindly"
 * the roots of the Cold War are established || [[image:turningpoints2010:yalta.jpg align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * -Stabilized world relations and peace between countries.**
 * -Created during WWII.**
 * -Created October 24th.**
 * - Contains a General Assembly.**
 * - The United Nations is composed of multiple different councils.**
 * - The Secretariat is in charge of different policies and programs throughout the UN, as well as the five other major "organs".** ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * - Implemented in 1947 by the U.S.**
 * - This policy helped prevent and limit communist ideas throughout the world.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:kennan.jpg align="center" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * -Contained two parts of Cold War strategy.**
 * - A foreign policy created by U.S President Harry Truman.**
 * - Lead to the Marshall Plan.**
 * - Greece needed financial support for their country.**
 * - Greece's government, agriculture, and cities were all ruined and harmed.**
 * - The Doctrine also helped Turkey.** ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * -President Truman supported democratic spread in East Europe.**
 * -Protected Europe from Communist problems and ideas.**
 * -Repaired European economy.**
 * - Money from the Marshall Plan helped Europe come back.**
 * - Mainly for the South and Western European cuntries.**
 * - Helped American economy because loans were paid back.**
 * - Soviet Union and Poland did not take the loans from America.**
 * - We are tying European and American policies together, because if they get hurt, we get hurt.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT**
 * - Western allies were kept out of Berlin through the blockade.**
 * - The airlift was the only way for the people to survive the blockade.**
 * - The airlift supplied the city with food and equipment so that they could live during the blockade.**
 * - Stalin stopped the airlift a year later and created a division between East and**
 * West Germany.** ||
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**
 * - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.**
 * - If one country in the group is attacked, it is like all of the other countries were attacked to and they have to help fight.**
 * -Strong militaries and political ideas would stop the Soviets from attacking.**
 * - The Soviet Union created the Warsaw pact in response to the increased military and nuclear building in the U.S and Europe.**
 * - This lead to the race for military dominance between the allies and the Soviets.**
 * - Contained U.S., Canada, and Western Europe.**
 * -NATO is the Soviet Union's pact.**
 * - The iron curtian.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC**
 * - The red scare was the fear of communism throughout the United States during the Cold War.**
 * - Americans were scared about world spread of communism.**
 * - The Rosenberg Trial was one about espionage.**
 * - Was the source of the second red scare.**
 * - Alger Hiss had made communist statements.**
 * - An army engineer was arrested for supplying Soviet Russia with plans.** ||
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** **- The growth of communism lead to America being scared of communism even more.** **- America and the allies thought that this was part of the communist plan to take over the world.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] || **THE KOREAN WAR**

- Suspected innocent citizens of being communists. - Was an extreme anti-communist group. - Fear of communism. || || xxxxx
 * No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** ||
 * **MCCARTHYISM** - Used the Korean War to spread the fear of communism.
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] || **THE SPACE RACE**
 * - Soviet Russia began to release multiple satellites into space called Sputnik.**
 * - The second Sputnik contained a dog.**
 * - Soviet space success lead America want to do better than the Soviets.**
 * - Apollo 13 was put into space.**
 * - Apollo 13 was the first spaceship to the moon.**
 * - The U.S. and Russia were in competition for who could get a man to the moon first.** ||