Cold+War+Big+Pic



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 **

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 * 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
 * keep peace at a "table" instead of with guns
 * 5 permanent members US, USSR, GB, France, China- have veto power
 * US and GB, China
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * Iron curtain descends on Europe, communism spreads through Europe
 * George Kenan US
 * contain, stop from growing
 * || [[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
 * aid countries with money
 * Turkey and Greece
 * Think they are the protector of the world
 * Great power comes with great responsibility
 * Get in other country's business
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * named after secretary of state george marshall
 * rebuild and revive southern and western europe from war
 * offered 13 million dollars to countries || [[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**
 * German was separated in 4 zones for the US, France, Great Britain and USSR
 * Western powers megered zones and Stalin were affraid that this might threatent the soviets
 * Berlin, the former capitol of Germany, was also divided
 * Stalin wanted to get the western powers out of the city so he blocked the western powers from coming in
 * US sent an airlift that gave supplies and food to residents in Berlin ||
 * **NATO**
 * alarm of communist control in Europe
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * Alliance with US, Canada, and western countries in europe
 * Soviet union and eastern europe 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 1949 communists took rule over Chinam led byMao Zedong
 * US thought this was a part of world domination
 * Nationalists in CHina fled to Taiwan headed by Chiang Kai-shek
 * Fear of communism grew, along with fear about Korea ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * Fear of communism grew, along with fear about Korea ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Senator from WI
 * pointed fingers at officials saying that they were the trouble behind this because they were communists
 * McCarthyism- charges against innocent people
 * Senate criticized his conduct he faded away from the public ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || * USSR sent the first satellite into space, Sputnik
 * US was scared, had a missle in space that could bomb us
 * set aside lots of money to get a US satellite into space
 * Talk instead of fire, didn't work
 * USSR attacked american spy plane, wanted apology but Eisenhower refused ||