Cold+War+the+Big+Picture



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:Slide1.jpg width="494" height="304"]]**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**
 * Made after WWII
 * purpose to get countries to talk
 * made charter to continue fighting the axis 26 nations approved
 * can't get into a countries issues of domestic jurisdiction ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * keep comunisim from expanding
 * by not allowing places like korea to be taken
 * keep communism under controle || [[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**
 * provide aid to countries that need to fight communism
 * that were vulnerable
 * turkey greece ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * 1.4 billion
 * fix west berlin after wwii
 * General George C Marshall
 * increased industrial levels more than before the war
 * || [[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**
 * supplies for Berlin
 * peace time operation
 * soviet forces harass west ground transport
 * Lucius D Clay keeps troops there because USSR halted railroad traffic ||
 * **NATO**
 * Peace with atlantic nations
 * agreed to let us bring back chemical weapons
 * space based lazer defence system
 * take down the wall || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Red scare
 * Joseph Mccarthy
 * communists
 * spys
 * put communist on trial ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || * Russia v. US ||

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