Cold+War

C opy 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 || [[image:turningpoints2010/yalta.jpg height="215" align="center"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/un.gif height="205" align="center"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * Established after WWII
 * Meant to keep the peace between nations
 * Still around today(50 years) ||

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 * **CONTAINMENT ([|Video available] -** username mtaft, password usm**)**
 * **A U.S. Strategy to stop the spread of communism**
 * **The soviets tried to expand communism into the eastern world** ||  || [[image:turningpoints2010/kennan.jpg height="256" align="center"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/truman.jpg height="269" align="center"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE ([|Video available] -**


 * -Truman's idea to stop communism around the world but especially in Europe.** ||

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 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN** **([|Video available] -**
 * **The U.S. plan to spread thereforeign plan and economic plan to western Europe but also stop the Sovietsinfluence at the same time**
 * **This is why the Berlin wall was created to stop the spread of communism to western Europe** ||  || [[image:turningpoints2010/marshall.jpg height="275" align="center"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/airlift.jpg height="235" align="center"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT ([|Video] ****[|available] **
 * **tried to cut off supplies to berlin** ||


 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**
 * **Was to protect the non communist countries from the aggression of the soviets**
 * **6 years after NATO formed the Warsaw pact formed to protect communism** ||  || [[image:http://www.allrussias.com/images/map_coldwar_big.jpg height="240"]] ||

> There were two Red Scares, and both were periods of strong Anti-Communism in the United States.
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg height="350" align="center"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC ([|Video available] -** username mtaft, password usm**)**
 * The first was in 1919 to 1921, and the second was from 1947 to 1957
 * First Red Scare focused on worker revolution and political radicalism
 * The Rosenbergs were a couple by the names of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were accused of having passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets. The evidence was not clear, but the two were still sentenced to death ||


 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** * In 1949 communists took rule over Chinam led byMao Zedong
 * US thought this was a part of world domination
 * Nationalists in CHina fled to Taiwan headed by Chiang Kai-shek
 * Fear of communism grew, along with fear about Korea ||  || [[image:turningpoints2010/PRCFounding.jpg align="center"]] ||
 * ||  || **THE KOREAN WAR**

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

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 * MCCARTHYISM ([|Video available] - username mtaft, password usm**)** * Senator from WWI
 * pointed fingers at officials saying that they were the trouble behind this because they were communists
 * McCarthyism- charges against innocent people
 * Senate criticized his conduct he faded away from the public ||  || [[image:turningpoints2010/180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/1sputnik.jpg align="center"]] || **THE SPACE RACE (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Video available] -**
 * USSR sent the first satellite into space, Sputnik
 * US was scared, had a missle in space that could bomb us
 * set aside lots of money to get a US satellite into space
 * Talk instead of fire, didn't work
 * USSR attacked american spy plane, wanted apology but Eisenhower refused ||