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 **


 * **THE YALTA CONFERENCE**
 * Meeting near the end of WWII - big three 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"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:un.gif width="298" height="211"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS
 * International peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and development.
 * Five major countries: United States, USSR, Great Britain, France, China.
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Policy first announced in 1947 in response to Soviet pressure on Greece and Turkey.
 * The blocking by one nation of another nation's attempts to spread influence.
 * Efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet Communism during the late 1940s/early 1950s. || [[image:turningpoints09:kennan.jpg width="246" height="177"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * Promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom.
 * Says that the United States must support those who are threatened by communism, although not in our country. ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Hoping to prevent th spread of communism by reviving the war-torn economies in Europe.
 * Plan was named for Truman's Secretary of State, George Marshall.
 * Marshall Plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and southern Europe.
 * Helped nations rebuild their economy. || [[image:turningpoints09:marshall.jpg width="297" height="276"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**
 * In June of 1945, the Allies had agreed to temporarily split Germany into four zones.
 * Areas were controlled by USSR, France, Great Britain, and the US.
 * Stalin's forces blocked access to Berlin.
 * Truman approved a huge airlift of food, fuel, and equipment into the city.
 * In 1949, Stalin called off the blockade. ||
 * **NATO**
 * Formed due to alarm over communist control of Eastern Europe.
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
 * Alliance included the US, Canada, and ten Western European nations.
 * In response, USSR and Eastern European nations formed the Warsaw Pact. || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * In September 1949, the Communists defeated the anticommunist Nationalists in a civil war in China.
 * Mao Zedong became the head of the new Communist party.
 * Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Nationalist party, fled to Taiwan.
 * Many Americans blamed the fall of the Nationalist party on the State Department for failing to stop the Communist revolution. ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR**
 * (See Korea 9 3 2 1) || [[image:turningpoints09:korean67.gif width="143" height="180"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * Joseph McCarthy was a Republican senator from Wisconsin.
 * In February of 1950, he said he had a list of 205 State Department officials who were Communists.
 * These charges were never proven, but those accused faced public shame.
 * Joseph Welch, the Army counsel, finally spoke out against McCarthy and after the Senate criticizing his conduct, he faded from public view. ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * Competition between the Soviet Union and the United States in the exploration of space.
 * In 1957, USSR launched the world's first space satellite (Sputnik)
 * This meant USSR had a missile powerful enough to reach the United States.
 * Congress then set aside billions of dollars for space research. || [[image:space_race.png width="199" height="253"]] ||
 * Congress then set aside billions of dollars for space research. || [[image:space_race.png width="199" height="253"]] ||