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 **

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 * Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, __Creating America,__ and ABC-CLIO **

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 * **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**
 * Serves as a watchdog for the world
 * Would get involved when necessary and to stop spread of Communism
 * Main goal was to protect Democracy
 * People from UN fought in the Korean War to stop Communism ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Stop spread of communism
 * U.S. works in military and non-military ways to contain communism
 * The main strategy of the Cold War || [[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**
 * Aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom
 * Gave countries help so they would not become communists
 * Truman wanted to make sure that other countries did not convert to communism ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Offered 13 billion dollars in aid to western and southern Europe.
 * Plan helped the nations of Europe rebuild.
 * Wanted to get these nations being aided on the U.S. side || [[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 forces blockade access to Berlin
 * Truman has airlift of food, fuel, and equipment into the city
 * 275,000 flights made into Berlin by U.S. and Berlin cargo planes
 * Carried supplies to city's residents ||
 * **NATO**
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed in 1948
 * Formed because of alarm over communist control of Eastern Europe
 * NATO alliance included U.S., Canada, and 10 Western European nations
 * Soviet Union and Eastern European nations form Warsaw Pact || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * 1949-Communists defeat non Communists in China
 * Mao Zedong leads Communist China
 * Nationalist government falls in China
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Joseph McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin, has list of 205 State Department officials who are communists
 * Hunt for Communists begins
 * He was well known for finger pointing
 * He eventually was wiped out wen exchanges between him and Joseph Welch were seen on TV ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || * Space Race begins with Soviet Union and U.S.
 * Soviets launch world's first space satellite
 * Billions of dollars were set aside for space research
 * Sputnik meant that Russians could reach U.S. with a powerful missile ||