ColdWar

**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.**


 * **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 width="299" height="227" align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS
 * A collection of nations all in an agreement to, " stabilize international relations and create a firm foundation for peace."
 * FDR helped to form the UN
 * United States proposed that the UN work to stop Communism during the Cold War. The wanted to stop the communist movement in South Korea
 * China saw UN forces moving through Korea as a threat.
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * Containment was first used by the US in 1947 as a response to the spread of Communism.
 * Containment meant that the US would prevent the hostile nation from gaining any territory by means of, " political, economic, and diplomatic methods."
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:kennan.jpg width="281" height="218" caption="George Kenean"]] ||  ||
 * George Kenean ||  ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE


 * The Truman Doctrine stated that The United States of America would have to try to control the spread of Communism, especially in Turkey and Greece.
 * //The Truman Doctrine, "laid the groundwork for the Marshall Plan"//
 * Gave aid to Western Europe
 * Leads to military/ financial entanglements including the Wars in both Korea and Vietnam.
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN


 * Also known as European Recovery Program (ERP)
 * Planned to renew and strengthen the democracy of sixteen European Countries after they had been damaged financially and physically in the Second World War.
 * America wants to keep countries from turning to Communism and also wants to secure the markets of Europe.
 * Stalin urges many of the countries not to accept the aid.
 * 1948 it was signed into a law.
 * Provided economic growth
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg width="344" height="261" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT


 * "Soviet forces in March 1948 began to harass ground transport that connected West Berlin to West Germany."
 * Supply for the citizens was brought to the city by an airlift.
 * Western trade stopped with Germany and the Soviet Union stopped the blockade.
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT


 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) made a pact that if any nation attacked, another nation would treat it as an attack on itself.
 * The United States was part of NATO
 * The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Union's version of NATO.
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png width="241" height="286" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg width="262" height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC
 * The red scare describes the american fear of a Communism takeover.
 * Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were tried and executed for committing espionage under the Espionage Act of 1917.
 * The House of Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigated any suspected Communistic activities in the US. They targeted the entertainment industry.
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** * China, a communist nation, saw movement of the United Nations into South Korea as an immeadiate threat.
 * Drove UN troops back back to South Korea.
 * General MacArthur wanted to blockade and bomb China. Truman refused. MacArthur publicly criticized president Truman. || [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif width="221" height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] || **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif width="221" height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] || **THE KOREAN WAR

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** ||
 * **MCCARTHYISM** * McCarthy, a Republican senator from WI, convinced many Americans that there were many Communists disguised in American politics.
 * McCarthyism
 * In 1954 he held a series of famous hearings. || [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg width="201" height="225" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] || **THE SPACE RACE


 * The Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, starting the Space Race
 * The Soviets had the first man in space
 * The United States worked fast to get the first man, Neil Armstrong, into Space.