Early+Cold+War



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.**
 * Copy this page onto a new page in your online notebook. To get an overview of the origins of the

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** tomorrow's activity. Use the first entry as an example for detail.**
 * Copy this page onto a new page in your online notebook. To get an overview of the origins of the Cold
 * for each event or idea from the early years of the Cold War.** **This information will help set the stage for
 * **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" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||  ||
 * **THE UNITED NATIONS * a International Organization that works for world peace. Started in 1945 after WWII to replace the league of nations. USSR is one of the permanent members. All the allies are permanent members.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif width="282" height="210" align="center" caption="un.gif"]] ||
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * Stop the spread of communism
 * Use military and non-military tactics
 * First implemented by the United States in 1947
 * The iron curtain descends on europe. Russia is bring countries in to its government.
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:kennan.jpg width="234" height="185" caption="George Kenean"]] ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * Promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom
 * From President Harry Truman in a message to Congress in 1947
 * Used containment to stop communism.
 * Give money to Turkey and Greece. to bring them to democracy.
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * Plan to revive the war-torn economies of Europe
 * Named for Truman's Secretary of State, George C. Marshall
 * Offered $13 billion in aid to western an southern Europe
 * Helped nations of Europe rebuild
 * Give a lot of money to southern European nations.
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg width="149" height="159" align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||  ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg width="270" height="201" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT
 * Germany, divided into four zones, was controlled by U.S., Soviet Union, France, and Britain
 * Western powers merged their zones and planned to unite them as West Germany
 * Stalin feared a united Germany as a threat to the USSR
 * 1st major international crisis of the cold war.
 * people died; cold war is heating up
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization organized to defend member nations against possible aggravation of USSR
 * NATO originally anticommunist
 * North Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949
 * work toward reaching agreement with Warsaw Pact countries on equitable and verifiable arms reduction and to cooperate within the alliance in economic, scientific, and cultural areas
 * Defensive alliance.
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png width="159" height="165" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||  ||
 * **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC
 * Red Scare was the fear of communist takeover of the government that swept the United States
 * Fall of China to communism and Rosenberg trial led to Red Scare
 * USSR tests an atomic bomb.
 * People are going crazy.
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg width="132" height="133" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] ||  ||
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** * Communists took control of China in 1949 after defeating anticommunists in a civil war
 * The Nationalists were supported by U.S.
 * Mao Zedong became head of the new Communist state
 * Nationalists ran away to Taiwan || [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||  ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * Nationalists ran away to Taiwan || [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||  ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || ||   ||
 * **MCCARTHYISM** * McCarthy, politician from Wisconsin, used Korean War to fan Americans' fear of communism
 * February, 1950, he said he had a list of over 200 state officials who belonged to the Communist Party, the charges were never proven
 * The claim launched a hunt for Communists that ruined thousands of people's care || [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg width="126" height="149" align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||  ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE
 * Began in 1957 between the superpowers
 * Soviets launched the world's first space satellite, which also mean that the Soviets had a missile powerful enough to reach the United States
 * First satellite was called Sputnik, and after it, Americans raced to put a satellite into orbit around Earth
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg width="81" height="99" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] ||