The+Cold+War

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 **Insert your illustrated and annotated PowerPoint slide here


 * 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**
 * It was a concil of 15 nations that came together to help solve promblems.
 * International Peace keeping
 * Started in April of 1945
 * World War to helped the nations want to join the peace organazation.
 * Replaced the League of Nations ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * The U.S and others Democratic nations wanted to contain communism, not allowing it to spread to other nations.
 * One big event that worried the U.S about containing communism was when Soviet Union took over china.
 * We didn't want vietam to turn communist.
 * Try to push back the Red
 * Military and non-military ways || [[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**
 * The Truman Doctrine promised to aim or to help people resist communism.
 * Stay in democracy
 * This was part of Containment ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * To give western and eastern nations 13 billion dollars to help them rebuild.
 * Named after Truamn secetary of state
 * A plan to revive the worn torn economy of European countries
 * Soviets didn't want the U.S money, they would allow countries with communism to take the money either.
 * Truman tried to drop food into the city of berlin. (wouldn't take any help.) || [[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**
 * Stalin was blocking the way for the americans to come in.
 * Wouldn't allow american to help.
 * Food shortages
 * Stalin was afraid that germany would unit and be a threat to the Soviet Union.
 * Drops: happen for around a year
 * Stalin stopped blocking the way 1949 ||
 * **NATO**
 * Nato was allaince of Canada, United States, and ten western European Nations
 * All anti-communism
 * In response to the alliance the Soivet and eastern European nations formed the Warsawa pact.
 * || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Soviet Union took over China
 * Became a communist country
 * Leader Mao Zedong became head of communist nation
 * many fled to taiwan
 * Afraid that communism would take over the world. ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Senator from Wisconsin
 * Filed law suit againest people who were supposly for communism
 * Never proved a case
 * Laid off from being senator
 * Red Scare
 * Communist spies.
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 * **THE SPACE RACE** ||  ||