Early+Cold+War

**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


 * Created in 1945 post WWII
 * International peacekeeping organization
 * Promotes world peace, security, and economic development
 * < **CONTAINMENT (1947)
 * policy in response to communism
 * prevents (political, economic, and diplomatic methods) the countries land and the countries influence on its people.
 * Wanted to keep communism from spreading
 * ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:kennan.jpg width="240" height="185" caption="George Kenean"]] ||<  ||
 * < George Kenean ||<  ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg width="241" height="198" align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] ||< **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * United states had a containment goal in the Cold War
 * Promised aid to people struggling to resist threats of democratic freedom
 * $400 million in aid
 * Contained spread of communism
 * Laid groundwork for Marshall Plan
 * Backboard of cold war policy
 * used money to keep away the need for a new government
 * < **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * < **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * < **THE MARSHALL PLAN

...help european reconstruction  ....restore balance of power ** ||< || >
 * George Marshel, secretary of state during Truman's Presidency, came up with a plan he proposed at Harvard
 * the plan would....
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg width="303" height="231" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] ||< **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT
 * Transfer of supplies sent from the U.S. and Britain to Berlin
 * Occurred during peace time- amazing operation
 * Lack of food in West Berlin
 * Blockade was a success and Soviet Union declared a defeat
 * < **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT
 * Nato stood for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * U.S. Political organization
 * "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down"
 * The Warsaw Pact was a treaty that said the Soviety Union would have an alliance and that they would aid the other counties if they were attacked
 * Also called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'
 * Also called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'
 * ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png width="182" height="226" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg width="213" height="181" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] ||< **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC
 * Fear across United States of communism during 20th century
 * Hysteria- labor strikes, etc. Communists were blamed
 * People scared of communist government takeover
 * HUAC was a government organization trying to find disloyalty to the United States government
 * < **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** * the communist took over all of china, acquiring a lot of power
 * A communist society is where everything is owned by the government and there are no social classes
 * They control the people by propaganda and persuading them that the government will help them. They also use people's ignorance to their advantage. ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif width="173" height="165" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] ||< **THE KOREAN WAR
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif width="173" height="165" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] ||< **THE KOREAN WAR

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** ||
 * < **MCCARTHYISM** * Joseph McCarthy was a politician (from Wisconsin!) who said that many officials were part of the communist group and provoked the fear of communism in americans.
 * The term McCarthyism meant reckless charges against innocent citizens ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg width="162" height="193" align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg width="168" height="183" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] ||< **THE SPACE RACE
 * Soviets space program becoming larger
 * In 1957, Sputnik released
 * Artificial satellite orbited Earth- first ever
 * Scared United States
 * U.S. starts large space program following