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 **

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 * **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** * First United Nations failed because USA wasn't
 * Roosevelt said to join UN toward the end of WWII,
 * In April 1945, delegates from 50 nations met to discuss,
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Try to contain communism
 * Work in military and non-military ways to contain communism
 * This will then lead Truman to create The Truman Doctrine || [[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**
 * This promised help to people sturggling
 * This was to resist threats to democratic freedom
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Help revive the war-torn economies of Europe
 * The United States gave $13 billion to help western and southern Europe
 * Led to dividing Germany up into four divisions controlled by the- Soviet Union,
 * Led to dividing Germany up into four divisions controlled by the- Soviet Union,
 * Then, the western powers decided to merge their zones and made plans to unite
 * Berlin was alos, divided into eastern and western zones || [[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**
 * Since Berlin was divided into Easter and Western zones
 * This led to a blocked Berlin
 * Truman decided to help the Berlin people and flew over
 * Stalin called off the blockade
 * May 1949 germany divided into communist east germany
 * **NATO**
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * An alliance between the United States, Canada, and the Western European nations
 * This then led the Soviet Union, Eastern European nations formed the Warsaw Pact
 * NATO-democratic, Warsaw Pact- communist || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Movement of UN North Korea thought to be a threat
 * UN ignored this and moved into the Yalu River
 * on Novemeber 25,1950 hundres of thousands chinese
 * They pushed back North Korea down to South Korea, then
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Senator from Wisconsin
 * He believed many state officials and other people were
 * McCarthysim came to be the reckless charges against
 * Accused US Army of "coddling Communists."
 * Senate issued a statement criticizing his conduct, and
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * Soviets created first space satellite
 * Soviets launched Sputnik into orbit around the earth, thus meaning they had
 * Americans ran to create a satellite, Congress set aside billions of dollars for this