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 **


 * 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**
 * International peacekeeping organization
 * Composed of 50 organizations
 * US joined because FDR told the Americans not to turn their backs on the world again ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Stop the expansion of communism
 * Military/Nonmilitary ways
 * Iron Curtain || [[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**
 * Promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom
 * Showed new policy of containment ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Offered money to western and southern Europe to contain communism
 * Helped nations of Europe rebuild || [[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**
 * City of Berlin divided into West Berlin, controlled by US, GB, and France, and East Berlin, controlled by the Soviet Union
 * Soviet Union wanted to force Western powers out of Berlin, so they organized a blockade
 * US approved a huge airlift of food, fuel, and equippment into Berlin for a year
 * Stalin then called off the blockade
 * Germany had been divded into communist East Germany and democratic West Germany ||
 * **NATO**
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed from fear of communist control of Eastern Europe
 * Included US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations (democratic)
 * Soviet Union and Eastern European nations formed Warsaw Pact in response (communism) || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Communists defeated Nationalists (supported by US) in a civil war in China
 * Mao Zedong became head of communist state
 * American fear of communism increased ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Republican senator from WI
 * Used Korean War to fan Americans' communist fears
 * Accused people of supporting communism
 * Destroyed lives of thousands
 * McCarthyism stands for reckless charges against innocent civilians
 * Accused US Army of encouraging communism; in the hearings McCarthy's behavior was rude and horrible. He then faded from public view ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, showing they had a weapon that could reach the US
 * American U-2 spy plane shot down before a meeting between Eisenhower and Soviet Union leader ||  ||