Early+Cold+War



**Copy 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 United Nations was a group that was organized after the second world war to try to keep peace as best as they could between the countries of the world. The countries main powers were the US, Uk, and USSR.** || Was to through economics make the places hard to live in so that they could limit the influential ability that the communistic countries could portray.** || ||   || Truman feared that the soviets were showing to much dominance in the east Europe. The doctrine was designed to support the democratic nations by doing things to help build up their economies in the eastern Europe**. Like Turkey and Grease. ||
 * **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="227" align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * George Kenean ||  ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE

The Marshall plan was a plan to help support the nations in Europe, to stabilize them so that they would not feel like they needed to fall into the hands of a communistic leader. || || The people that were in Berlin wanted to merge into a new democratic nation of Germany. The USSR responded by blockading all routes to western Berlin. Berlin airlift supplied them with drop offs to survive the 11 month blockade.** || The **N**orth **A**tlantic **T**reaty **O**rganization was designed with the idea that any attack on each other was treated like an attack on themselves. In response the Soviet Union made the Warsaw Pact. || || Red scare first happened after WW1 were there were mass hysteria and protests. These also happened in American about communism in China. People were starting to get freaked out and they started to get things from grocery stores in case of nuclear bombs.** ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg height="261" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** Communism was building in China. America did not like this and there were many protest about it and wide hysteria. The most populated place in the world. Not contained in the containment plan. || [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] || **THE KOREAN WAR

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || The space race was that the us wanted to get a man to land on the moon before Russia could. This was not only going to be a great victory for science but also a great victory from the political stand point. America as we know eventually one.** || Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyright 2010 Tangient LLC. ||
 * **MCCARTHYISM** Republican senator that had a list of comunism leaders that he thought and ruind jobs. He put together a list that he thought the people were communist. Those people were fired and there chance with jobs were ruined for that job. || [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg height="225" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] || **THE SPACE RACE
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