H)+Early+Cold+War-+5.17.10

**Copy this page onto a new page in your online notebook. To get an overview of the origins of the Cold War, begin by reading[|Allies to Enemies: Origins of the Cold War] from ABC-CLIO.** **Use pages 794-799 in //Creating America// and** **[|“The Cold War” research list on ABC-CLIO]** **to** **develop a complete description** **for each event or idea from the early years of the Cold War.** **This information will help set the stage for tomorrow's activity. Use the first entry as an example for detail.**


 * **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 height="227" align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS
 * Meeting April 25, 1945
 * FDR wanted them to work in peace
 * United Nations helped US when they needed help in Korea
 * UN would make decisions together for peace
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * Policy started by US in 1947 in response to communism
 * limits through diplomatic, economic, and political methods the growth of hostile countries territory and influence
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * policy that mandated an active role for the United States in containing the spread of communism around the world.
 * greece has had extraordinary cruelty towards them
 * formed the backbone of America's cold war policy
 * said country was being destroyed by terrorists
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * **USA feared Soviet dominance throughout Europe**
 * **Truman commited the USA to support democratic resistsance in Europe**
 * **clearly intended to limit soviet influence**
 * **said that europe should make a recovery plan for themselves and then recovery plan was ready and in effect** || [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg height="261" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT
 * airlift was a massive transfer of essential supplies flown into Berlin in 1948 and 1949 by US and Britain
 * most extraordinary peacetime military operation in history
 * Led to the building of the Berlin Wall
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT
 * treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union signed in Poland in 1955
 * each nations would treat every attack on another allie in NATO as an attack on themselves
 * started the arms race
 * formation of NATO
 * || [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png height="286" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC
 * trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for conspiracy to commit espionage in wartime under the Espionage Act of 1917
 * case came at the height of the second red scare.
 * Rosenburg was a spy for the Soviets
 * revealed secrets about hidden bombs
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA
 * Moa Zedong rose to power
 * thought China's communism would take over the world
 * blame put on State Department for not stopping communism
 * revealed secrets about hidden bombs
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA
 * Moa Zedong rose to power
 * thought China's communism would take over the world
 * blame put on State Department for not stopping communism
 * blame put on State Department for not stopping communism

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 * [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] || **THE KOREAN WAR

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** ||
 * ** MCCARTHYISM ** * **reckless charges against innocent people**
 * **started a Salem witch hunt against all of Americans**
 * **everybody thought he was a communist**
 * **fanned people fears of communism** || [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg height="225" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] || **THE SPACE RACE
 * soviets put the first satellite in space
 * US spent billions trying to figure out how the satellite worked
 * US scared Soviet Union with there long range missiles