The+Cold+War



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 **

Communism in China started developing which worried the US and the United Nations. They thought since China was a more powerful country that they could spread communism which posed a threat, and we just didn't want to happen** || No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || || This was where you would be accused of disloyalty, or treason even if there was no evidence. It was used often in the political world.** ||
 * **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**
 * They wanted to solve world issues around the table, not fighting.
 * 5 permanent countries of United Nations that have veto power: US, USSR, Great Britain, France, China ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * The Iron curtain descends on Europe-communism spread to more countries in Europe.
 * George Kenan says that the United States should contain communism to keep it from growing. || [[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 money to help them so that they won't depend on communism ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Mashall proposed that Europe should create a plan to help their economy recover.
 * Later, in July of 1947 the Conference of European Economic Cooperation met in Paris, and started creating their plan || [[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**
 * Transfer of essential supplies flow into Berlin, Germany throughout 1948-1949 by the British and U.S. forces
 * Most extroadinary peacetime military operation in history ||
 * **NATO**
 * North Atlantic Traty Organization
 * NATO was created in order to defend member nations from the Soviet Union and nations of Eastern Europe
 * Anticommunist allinace during the cold war, sought to redefine its role as East-West tensions have eased || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[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**
 * Competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore outer space, most often defined by the race to place a human on the moon ]
 * Both nations also used rocket and missile development gleaned from the space race to strengthen their military establishments ||