Cold+War+The+Big+Picture+and+Early+Years



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 **

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || ||
 * **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**
 * countries were apart of the united nations, created to keep peace between the nations and prevent war
 * didn't work! ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * meant to stop the spread of communism
 * 1947
 * first time that the policy was used || [[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**
 * stop the spread of communism
 * America is confident that they will win
 * Iron cur ten is developing at this time, America is scare ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * American food and money have helped to pay off for peace around the world
 * protecting the fronts || [[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**
 * 1948
 * Soviet Union blocked all paths to West Berlin
 * the only way to get to Berlin was by air plane, gave the citizens food so that they would not starve
 * **NATO**
 * America becomes more scared of the Soviet Union after the Berlin airlift
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), each country that was in NATO would feel as though they were being attacked if another country were to be attacked
 * Soviets and America developed more and more nuclear weapons, race || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * 1949 communism goes into power in China
 * French needed help in their war, USA helps because they need the French's support for the Soviet Union
 * USA did not want Vietnam to be a communist country ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Wisconsin Senator
 * scared America about communism and their spys, started hysteria
 * America blamed individuals and they would loose everything without evidence of them being spies
 * eventually he was censured by the U.S Senate ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || America and the Soviet Union compete to see who get be the first in space, moon... ||

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