Early+Cold+War

**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:turningpoints09:yalta.jpg width="275" height="216" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||

-The anticommunist crusade gave new life to the HUAC(House Un-American Activities Committee) * HUAC began to target actors, directors, and writers in the movie industry for communist ties
 * [[image:turningpoints09:un.gif width="298" height="211" align="center" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * Organized group of nations made to talk out issues at tables instead of fighting in a war.
 * The United Nations is established
 * US, USSR, GB, France, China are the five permanent countries of the United Nations and have lots of power
 * US, GB, France together vs. China and USSR ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * -The Iron Curtain descends on Europe.
 * -The Iron descends falls on Europe.
 * -Kennan calls for containment
 * -George Kenan
 * -Wants to stop communism from spreading || [[image:turningpoints09:kennan.jpg width="246" height="177" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||  ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * -The Truman Doctrine tries to help
 * -Gives Turkey and Greece money and help ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Help other countries and keeps them from wanting communism.
 * Marshall || [[image:turningpoints09:marshall.jpg width="266" height="282" align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT**
 * A big transfer of supplies into Berlin by British and American planes
 * The Soviets blocked all railroads connecting Berlin and the West
 * 75 British and American lives were lost
 * The West stopped trade with the East as pay back ||
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**
 * The North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed because of the amount of communism in Eastern Europe.
 * NATO consisted of the United States, Canada, and ten Western European nations.
 * The communists party formed the Warsaw Pact with the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations. || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg width="262" height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC**
 * Their careers were ruined
 * Red Scare: the irrational fear of communism that swept the U.S twice
 * The first one was after the WWI
 * The second was during the Cold War
 * Rosenbergs were members of the American Communist Party
 * They were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Russians
 * They were executed in 2953 ||
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** * The Communist defeated the anticommunist Nationalists in a Chinese civil war
 * Mao Zedong became the leader of the newly Communist Cina
 * The Nationalist government fled to Taiwan
 * Americans were shocked and viewed it as a part of the Communist plan to take over the world. || [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif width="221" height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] || **THE KOREAN WAR

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** ||
 * **MCCARTHYISM** * McCarthy used the Korean War to fan Americans' feas of communism
 * He had a list of State Department officials who belonged to the communist party, but were never proven
 * But, his claim launched a hunt to Communists
 * Who wrected the careers of thousands of people
 * The term then means: to stand for feckless charges against innocent people || [[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"]] || **THE SPACE RACE**
 * Competition between the US and the Soviet Union to see who could make the furthest space advancements
 * It was informal so technically, it wasn't actually declared a race ||