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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 **

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 * Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, __Creating America,__ and ABC-CLIO **

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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**
 * 5 countries would have all the powers
 * US Eng France China USSR
 * Supposed to keep peace by using the smallest amount of force possible. ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Iron Curtain falls on Europe
 * Poland becomes USSR controlled & Bulgaria Romania
 * USSR controlled by the rest of Europe
 * No freedom of choice
 * Kennan asks for containment stop communism from spreading to the US by using money to invest in Greece & Turkey || [[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**
 * Kennan asks for containment stop communism from spreading to the US by using money to invest in Greece & Turkey. ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * US was to give money to countries after WWII to give countries money to rebuild so they want be sustensibe.
 * US is spider man.
 * Offered 13 billion USD in aid to the US to Western and Southern Europe to rebuild economies.
 * || [[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**
 * Started because J Stalin created a blockade of Berlin in 1948 to make the Western powers abandon this city.
 * President Truman responded by sending in a huge airlift of well needed supplies.
 * US & Britain made 275000 flights in 1 years.
 * **NATO**
 * Caused by alarm over communism control of Eastern Europe.
 * Included the US Canada & Western Europe nations.
 * In response to this the Eastern powers formed the Warsaw pact.
 * Biggest symbol of this is the 1989 demolition of the Berlin Wall.
 * (NAC) biggest civilian council authority || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Saw UN forces in N. Korea as a threat so they threatened to enter the "war".
 * China made the UN troops fall back to S Korea.
 * MacArthur wanted to blockade China but Truman feared it would involve the USSR to join and it would start WWIII.
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * The term stood for reckless charges against innocent citizens suspected of being a communist.
 * Senate actually held hearings in which he never won one case.
 * He was told to stop by the Army but he didn't until the Senate house made him stop. ||
 * [[image:http://www.superchefblog.com/images/timespacerace_100dpi360x500pxl.png width="251" height="350"]] || **THE SPACE RACE**
 * USSR beat the US by launching the worlds first satellite.
 * The USSR also was the first country to launch a human into space.
 * The US was the 1st country to launch a man to the moon in 1969. ||