10.+Early+Cold+War





Copy 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.**

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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
 * 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 height="227" align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] ||< **THE UNITED NATIONS
 * Created in 1945 after WWII
 * It was made to replace the League of Nations
 * Made to stop such wars between countries and tries to complete world peace
 * < **CONTAINMENT
 * Policy formed in US in 1947
 * Made to prevent political, economic, and diplomatic methods in the US
 * Also made stop US influenced from others
 * Prevent hostile territory from expanding more
 * ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:kennan.jpg height="218" caption="George Kenean"]] ||<  ||
 * < George Kenean ||<  ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] ||< **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * March 12, 1947
 * Made US to stop the ways of communism spreading
 * Wanted to help Turkey and Greece from Communism too because
 * Wanted to help Turkey and Greece from Communism too because
 * It was $400 million for the two countries help
 * Lead to Marshall Plan
 * Backbone for Cold War policy and helped with Korean and
 * < **THE MARSHALL PLAN


 * George Marshall saw the Truman did well, so that gave him confidence
 * He presented aid to Europe with okay politics because it was not doing every well at the time
 * He wanted support from the US financially
 * Give US items and goods
 * 16 countries joined in for it
 * Took a lot of US money and loans from us
 * He said they wanted to help 17 nations, BILLIONS of dollars to all of them
 * This makes the federal deficit gets huge
 * they even offered it to soviet union but they said none of them could take the money
 * ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg height="261" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] ||< **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT

century everyone freaked out and tried to prevent it.** ||
 * soviets tried to block berlin from getting stuff so US decides to help
 * Supplies flown into Berlin from US and British forces
 * Very important in the Cold War
 * Tons of food! for sooo many people in Berlin
 * Did not want them to get through, so 75 people were killed
 * < **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT
 * In 1948, NATO was an alliance which included the US, Canada, and Western Europe and total of 12 countries
 * This made the Soviet Union and eastern Europe form the Warsaw pact
 * This was known as the north atlantic treaty organization also
 * ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png height="286" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] ||< **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC
 * The red scare was the fear of communism that swept over US in the 20th
 * The red scare was the fear of communism that swept over US in the 20th
 * People did not want communism to acummulate in the US and so
 * < **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** * Communism in China was very bad because the leaders took control
 * The leaders killed any people who had opposition and they had everything their way ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] ||< **THE KOREAN WAR

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || it meant they could send a missile all the way to the US
 * < **MCCARTHYISM** * McCarthy was against all people who were communists and ruin peoples lives
 * The term stood for reckless charges against citizens
 * There were many hearings for helping people who had been effected my communism and helped all those people alot ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg height="225" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] ||< **THE SPACE RACE
 * This begun in1957
 * The soviet union sent up a satellite into space which scared people because
 * This made congress start on the NASA program and starting to set a side lots of money for this cause