The+Cold+War+-+The+Early+Years


 * < **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 width="299" height="227" align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] ||< **THE UNITED NATIONS ** * An organization created after WWII
 * Created to help establish peace and stabilize international relations
 * The General Assembly meets every year, which is composed of representatives from all member countries of the UN ||
 * < **CONTAINMENT ** * The U.S. tried to limit the growth of communism through containment
 * Containment is to limit the growth of a country and its ideological influence on the world ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:kennan.jpg width="281" height="218" align="center" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] ||< **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE ** * The doctrine was issued by President Truman to help the reconstruction of Western Europe
 * It also wanted to stop the spread of communism by supporting Western European nations that opposed communism ||
 * < **THE MARSHALL PLAN ** * A plan that would help start reconstruction in Europe after the war
 * It aimed to balance the power of the countries in Europe and help them recover from the war ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg width="344" height="261" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT ** * U.S. and British forces brought in supplies for war into the former German capital of Berlin, now in Soviet territory
 * The U.S. and British didn't allow anyone to pass through areas from western Berlin to western Germany ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT ** * A group of communist countries in eastern Europe became allianced in the Warsaw Pact
 * NATO was a military alliance between many anti-communist nations in western Europe and the Americas ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png width="241" height="286" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg width="262" height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC ** * The red scare was the spread of the fear of communism across the United States
 * In the Rosenberg trial, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of giving the USSR information about the U.S., especially about the atomic bomb; this trial intensified the red scare
 * HUAC formed and convicted people of supporting communism ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">COMMUNISM IN CHINA ** * China became a communist nation in September 1949 after a civil war
 * Mao Zedong became the leader of the communist nation
 * America became shocked by the fall of Nationalism and rise of Communism in China ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif width="221" height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE KOREAN WAR **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity ** ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">MCCARTHYISM ** * A Republican senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy built up American fear of communism
 * McCarthy said he had a list of 205 State Department officials who were communists, which started a hunt for communists
 * The term "McCarthyism" was born, meaning reckless charges against innocent citizens ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg width="201" height="225" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE SPACE RACE ** * The Soviets and the U.S. fought to be more advanced in exploring space
 * The Soviets launched Sputnik 1, the man-made object to orbit the Earth
 * The U.S. started slowly, but soon became more advanced than the Soviets in space, and therefore reached the moon first ||