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 **

A state of competition, tension,, and hostility between the US and their allies (the West) and the Soviet Union and their allies (the East) between WWII and the early 1990s. no direct conflict on the battlefield.


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

- President Roosevelt urges people to join Un to stop another World war - delegates from 50 nations meet in April 1945 - all 50 states approved the peace making organization charter and it became known as the United Nations.** || - Truman administration's main strategy during the Cold War - goal was to stop the spread of Communism - US would work in military and nonmilitary ways to contain Communism** || || - promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom - used to help stabilize economies in struggling countries to stop them from falling to Communism - helped US make friends with foreign countries by helping their economy** || - used to combat the spread of Communism and help out war-torn economies of Europe - offered $13 billion in aid to western and southern Europe - helped rebuild European nations** || || - Stalin blocks access to Berlin in hopes that Western powers will abandon the city in 1948 - Truman approves a huge airlift of food, fuel, and equipment into the city - 275,000 cargo planes made flights into Berlin for a year - Stalin calls off blockade in 1949** || - 1948: alarm over communist control in eastern Europe - led to formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - alliance included US, Canada, and 10 western European nations - USSR and Eastern European nations form Warsaw Pact in response** || || - Communists defeated the anticommunist Nationalists in a civil war in China in September 1949 - Nationalists fled to Taiwan - US thinks this is part of Communist plot to rule the world - Fear of Communism grew** || No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || || - used Korean war to fan Americans' fear of Communism - declared he had a list of 205 State Dept. officials who were Communist in Feb. 1950 - none of the charges were ever proven and wrecked the careers of thousands of people** || - US races to launch satellite, US spends billions of dollars on space research - USSR had a missile powerful enough to reach US ||
 * **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
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT
 * **NATO
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || - USSR launched world's first satellite