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.

A state of competition, tension, and hostility between the United States and their allies (the West) and the Soviet Union and their allies (the East) between WWII and the early 1990's. There was no direct conflict on the battlefield. **
 * AN ILLUSTRATED DEFINITION OF THE COLD WAR

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 * Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, __Creating America,__ and ABC-CLIO **
 * Communism vs. capitalism
 * Massive conventional and nuclear arms race
 * Spying and espionage
 * Domestic hysteria in the United States
 * Battles in the United Nations
 * The space race
 * Proxy wars

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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**
 * Created in 1945
 * Made up of 50 nations
 * Sent troops into South Korea to fight against North Korea in the Korean War ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Created President Truman
 * Worked to prevent the spread of communism in Western Europe
 * U.S. would work in nonmilitary and military ways to contain communism
 * Mainly used during late 1940's and early 1950's || [[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**
 * Promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom
 * Created after the idea of containment in late 1940's ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Offered $13 billion in aid to western and southern Europe
 * Helped nations of Europe rebuild
 * Named after George C. Marshall, Truman's secretary of state || [[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**
 * In 1945, the allies agreed to a temporary division of Germany into four zones
 * Zones were controlled by Great Britain, France, the U.S, and the Soviet Union
 * The Western powers made plans to unite them as West Germany and merged their zones
 * Stalin felt threatened by a united Germany
 * Stalin wanted Western powers to leave the city and uses his forces to block access to Berlin
 * Truman responded by sending in an airlift of food, equipment, and fuel into the city
 * Berlin airlift lasted for a year
 * In 1949, Stalin stopped his blockade on Germany
 * Later in 1949, Germany was divided into democratic West Germany and communist East Germany ||
 * **NATO**
 * Created in 1948 by an alarm over communist control of Eastern Europe
 * Led to creation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
 * NATO alliance was made up of the U.S, Canada, and 10 Western Europe Nations
 * In response to this, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe formed the Warsaw Pact || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * When the UN forces moved into North Korea, China felt threatened
 * Chinese leaders warned the UN that they would enter the war
 * UN still advanced after the warning
 * In 1950, hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops attacked the UN in North Korea
 * This drove the UN back to South Korea ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Joseph McCarthy was a Republican senator from Wisconsin
 * McCarthy accused people of being part of the Communist Party
 * Charges were never proven
 * Wrecked the careers of thousands of people
 * McCarthy was charged with improper conduct by the Army spokesmen ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** ||