Cold+War+Big+Pic



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 **[[image:Cold_War.jpg width="830" height="717"]]




 * 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**
 * US
 * USSR
 * Great Britain
 * France
 * China
 * was created after WW2 in order to keep peace ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Iron curtain
 * stop the spread of communism
 * Europe was split into two, east for communism and west for democracy || [[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**
 * It was to help those in Europe who are resisiting democratic threats
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * It offered 13 billion to aid countries in Europe so they can rebuild
 * helped other countries rebuild after WW2
 * George Marshall was the person who created the 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**
 * Germany blockaded east Germany
 * Americans sent 275,000 cargo planes to Berlin to help the people that are effected by the blockade.
 * Soviets wanted the US out of Berlin
 * Berlin was divided into east and west Berlin
 * May 1949 Stalin called of the blockade ||
 * **NATO**
 * It is an alliance including the US, Canada, and ten western European nations
 * In response the soviets and eastern nations made a warsaw pact || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Mao Zedong is the communist leader in china
 * the nationalist government, headed by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to thew island of Taiwan
 * communism is spreadin in eastern Europe
 * Chinese helped the North Koreans in the Korean War and helped spread communism ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * the term means reckless charges against the innocents
 * McCarthy stated that he new 205 state department officials that were in communist party; charges were never proven
 * he started the hunt for communist people in the US ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || the Soviets launched sputnik into space(1st space satellite) meaning the soviets had a missile powerful enough to hit the US. ||

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