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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 **

Powerpoint is on separate page.


 * 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
 * United States
 * Great Britain
 * France
 * USSR
 * China
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * Churchill says that an iron curtain has fallen over Europe, splitting the West and East Europe
 * Capitalism and Communism
 * U.S is worried that Communism will spread to other European Nation
 * So they try to contain it to stop Communism from spreading
 * || [[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
 * A plan to stop the spread of Communism and the influence of the Soviet Union
 * A policy that promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * This plan offered 13 billion dollars in aid to western Europe and southern Europe, it would help these nations rebuild
 * Named after Truman's Secretary of State, George C. Marshall.
 * || [[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
 * The US sends a huge airlift of food, fuel, and other equipment to the city
 * It was Truman's response to Stalin blockading the East part of Berlin from the west part
 * **NATO
 * An alliance of democratic nations that got together to help fight communism
 * Consisted of the US, Canada, and ten other western Europe nations
 * The Soviet Union and Eastern Nations formed the Warsaw Pact in response to this
 * || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA
 * Chinese communists take control of China in 1949
 * This caused even more fear of communism in the states because now, the largest populated country in the word is a communist country
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * Chinese communists take control of China in 1949
 * This caused even more fear of communism in the states because now, the largest populated country in the word is a communist country
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM
 * Joseph McCarthy was a republican senator from WI
 * He declared that he had a list of 205 State Deparment officials that belonged to the Communist Party
 * These charges were never proven
 * His claim launched a hunt for Communists that wrecked the careers of thousands of people
 * The term McCarthyism came to stand for reckless charges against innocent citizens
 * His charges were taken to court where he lost, he then faded from public view
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || * It was a race between the Soviet Union and the US over who could accomplish more in space, the fastest
 * It was started when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 ||
 * It was started when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 ||