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 **




 * 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** || || || * An informal "competition" between the US and the USSR on which could make the furthest advancements to space before the other
 * **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**
 * A group of Nations created to keep peace and to solve problems without violence
 * US, England, France, Soviet Union, and China are all permanent members, who have the power to veto something.
 * If one of the permanent nations wont do something then the UN wont do it ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * The Iron Curtain descended
 * Try to keep communism from growing any larger or spreading into any more areas
 * USSR takes over eastern Europe- resulting in a spread of communism, || [[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**
 * Truman requested $400 million dollars to aid Turkey and Greece to keep communism from spreading to the US
 * Was declared by Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947
 * Many people disagreed with it and thought the US wasn't ready to handle the situation alone ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * 597 million dollars was spent in order to stop the spread of communism in Berlin
 * Help rebuild damage from WWII to prevent Berlin from being invaded again
 * US is Spiderman! With great power comes great responsibility || [[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**
 * Soviet guards began to halt trains, cars, and other transportation on the autobahn on June 19th
 * On June 21st Soviets blocked a US military supply train on its way to Berlin and made it turn around
 * The US decided that they would have to airlift supplies to Berlin if they wanted to get to them
 * On June 24th, 1948 the first plane took off by July 1st planes started to arrive in groups delivering more and more supplies
 * Black Friday occurred when 3 air crafts crashed because of rain, all other air crafts were ordered to return home.
 * Operation Little Vittles- pilots began to drop supplies and goodies to children in Berlin ||
 * **NATO**
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * Established when the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty happened on April 4th, 1489
 * Headquarters is located in Brussels, Berlin || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Communism rose in 1921
 * CPC- Communist Party of China
 * CPC is the largest political party in the world
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * A political way of making rash decisions, accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason with no real evidence
 * the term comes from Senator Joseph McCarthy, where he would make accusations with no evidence of communism, and where it was spreading.
 * The term is now used to describe reckless accusations ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * The Space Race began after the launch of Sputnik on October 4th 1957
 * The Space Race played a big role in the Cold War, because space technology boosted moral and showed the opponent that they could be attacked from space ||

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