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.


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

If they have money, life will be good, Communism will not spread No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || || || * the race to place a human on the moon
 * **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**
 * Established to keep world peace and settle disputes around a table and not with guns
 * Five permanent members: US, Great Britain, France vs. USSR, China.
 * each country has veto power, so little is agreed upon.
 * UN is a battle ground for Cold War. ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Communism spreads through eastern Europe
 * Worries US, containment policy, headed by George Kenan. Try and stop Communism from spreading.
 * "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**
 * Provide Turkey and Greece with cash and military effort
 * Every country will be offered US aid, in the hopes of Communism not spreading
 * US thinks they are responsible to protect Democracy. ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * offered $13 billion in aid to western and southern Europe
 * Helped European Nations rebuild
 * to expand US' sphere of influence
 * stop the spread of Communism. European countries were devastated from 10 years depression and 6 years of war and occupation. US feared USSR would take advantage of their vulnerability. || [[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**
 * Operation Vittles
 * June 1948, Soviet troops halted all railroad traffic between Berlin and the West.Supplies could not be shipped in.
 * British and U.S. forces supplied them with food and coal by air
 * July 26, 1948, the Western powers halted all trade with East Germany
 * 1949, USSR called off blockade ||
 * **NATO**
 * Mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America
 * Defend mambers and themselves from the USSR and Communism
 * Disarmament carefully considerated by the different members. || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * 1949-communists in China had ended their decades-long armed struggle and formed a new government
 * the Soviet Union and China entered into an alliance
 * Lead to uneasiness in US ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Senator McCarthy and followers charged 205 State Department officials as being Communist members.
 * Blacklists of people. Grew because accused would point fingers at others.
 * Ruined careers and people's lives
 * McCarthy eventually censured ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * began on October 4, 1957, with Sputnik. USSR in lead
 * Congress created a new government agency, NASA, on October 1, 1958.
 * JFK classified the space race as an integral part of the battle between freedom and tyranny,
 * Soviets remained ahead in the space race
 * USA won with Apollo 11 landing on the Moon ||