The+Early+Years+of+the+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
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**THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * Began because of the end of WWll
 * Soviet Union spread communist ideas
 * US doesn't like these
 * Berlin is split
 * NATO forms- creating arms race
 * "Iron Curtain" covers East Europe
 * tension in the UN
 * governments are set up by Soviet= socialist
 * SOVIET BLOC
 * Communism spreads

**CONTAINMENT (** [|**Video available**] **-** username mtaft, password usm**)**
 * Kennan tries to talk about containment
 * Foreign policy is changed

**THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE (** [|**Video available**] **-**
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 * Truman tries to stop communist expansion by supporting the resistance-
 * Truman Doctrine
 * lays groundwork
 * support free people
 * free of outside pressure
 * may endanger peace of world- change in view
 * looks for 400 million dollars to help Greece and Turkey

**THE MARSHALL PLAN** **(** [|**Video available**] **-** username mtaft, password usm**)**||
 * US HAS to call the shots
 * it is now responsibility
 * we are the only ones to help
 * Europe was left in ruins die to WWll. People began to go to communism to fight hunger and death
 * Marshall Plan tries to end hunger, Soviets get angry- successful
 * established US as dominant world power

**THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT (** [|**Video available**]  username mtaft, password usm**)**
 * West= US
 * East= Soviets
 * Soviets blockade
 * Berlin Airlift sends supplies 2.3 million tons of supplies
 * drops candy in operation vittles
 * Berlin wall in 1961
 * 4.5 tension

**NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization- Allies of US
 * Warsaw Act- Soviets and allies

**THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC (** [|**Video available**] **-** username mtaft, password usm**)** **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Now 2 communists in UN
 * SOVIETS HAVE A-BOMB

**THE KOREAN WAR** **No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** ||

**MCCARTHYISM** ( [|Video available] - username mtaft, password usm**)** **THE SPACE RACE (** [|**Video available**] **-username mtaft, password usm)**
 * FROM WISCONSIN
 * becomes very popular to accuse Marshall of infamy
 * accuses president of communism
 * People lose confidence in government
 * loses popularity
 * US and Soviets try to research rockets from Germans
 * 1957 Soviet send satellite to Earth's orbit
 * 1959 US launches Jupiter
 * 1959 Soviets send probe to take pictures