Cold+War


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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 **

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


 * **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"]] ||
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 * un.gif ||  || **THE UNITED NATIONS**


 * ** International peacekeeping organization **
 * most nations in the world belonged to it
 * founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**


 * ** the blocking by one nation of another nation's attempts to spread influence **
 * especially the efforts of the u.s. to block the spread of Soviet Communism during the late 1940s and early 1950s ||  || [[image:turningpoints09:kennan.jpg width="246" height="177" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
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 * truman.jpg ||  || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * ** a policy that promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom ** ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**

Marshall thinks USA is spiderman
 * ** Marshall has plan to stop the spread of red **


 * approved in 1948, the u.s. gave more than $13 billion to help the nations of Europe after WWII ||  || [[image:turningpoints09:marshall.jpg width="266" height="282" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
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 * airlift.jpg ||  || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**


 * ** Truman responded to the blockade on Berlin by approving a huge airlift of food, fuel, and equipment into the city **
 * For nearly a year the us brought in many supplies ||
 * **NATO**


 * ** North Atlantic Treaty Organization **
 * Alliance included the us canada and ten western european nations
 * in response the soviet union and eastern european nations formed the warsaw pact ||  || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
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 * PRCFounding.jpg ||  || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**

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 * ** US is trying to stop it from spreading **
 * Eventually entered the Korea Conflicts and tried to spread communism to Korea ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
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 * 180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg ||  || **MCCARTHYISM**


 * ** Republican Senator from WI **
 * Used the Korean War to fan Americans' fears of communism.
 * declared he had a lost of 205 State Department officials who belonged to the Communist Party
 * McCarthyism came to stand for reckless charges against innocent citizens accused for belonging or having anything to do with communis m ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || * competition, beginning in 1957
 * between the us and the soviet union in exploration of space ||