The+Cold+War+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 **

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || ||  || * Soviet Union first in space, sputnik.
 * **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**
 * Was formed because legue of nations failed
 * International peace keeping group
 * formed in 1945
 * Helped create the country of isreal ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * It was Trumans main war stratagy, because he didin't want to be in another world war.
 * It was to stop the spread of communisim
 * It was both military and non military
 * || [[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**
 * It gave aid to people and countries who are struggleing against the threat of communism ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * To stop the spread of communism, our plan was to aid countries in western and southern europe. || [[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**
 * Stalin put a blockade around west germany, and he thought that it would keep everyone out and we would abandon germany.
 * In reply, we air lifted them and droped down supplies
 * Result: germany was divided between eastern and western germany. ||
 * **NATO**
 * A military allience. Formed in 1949
 * it included 10 western eurpean countries.
 * The US and Canada
 * The North Atlantic treaty organization
 * In response to this, the soviet union and east european countries made the Warsaw pact. || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * The anti communist party was really weak
 * in 1949, the communist foreces defeated the anti communist forces
 * We supported the anti communist (the nationals)
 * the nationals left the country and move to taiwain. ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]]
 * they also had missle power that could reach the US.
 * This caused the US scientist to rush to develop this kind of power.
 * Eisenhower didnt' want people to panic and so he set up a meeting with Russia's president
 * Russia shut down a spy plane || **THE SPACE RACE** ||  ||   ||