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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.

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 * AN ILLUSTRATED DEFINTION OF THE COLD WAR **[[image:Slide1.jpg]]


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


 * **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

During World War 2, 26 nations pledged their governments to defeating the nazi's. It was formed by FDR who named it the United Nations.

Officially came to existence on october 24 1945

After War United nations goal became to get countries to get together and maintain peace throughout the world.** || __Iron Curtain:__
 * **CONTAINMENT

The Iron curtain was the name given to Eastern Europe mainly under the influences of communism

The US containment policy was to stop the spread of communism in neighboring countries and and "containing" it to the soviet Union** || ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE

The truman doctrine was a foreign policy that declared that "as the leader of the free world" we must support democracy world wide in the fight against communism

Was specifically to keep countries like Greece and Turkey out of the clutches of the iron curtain** ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN

Marshall plan was the primary plan for rebuilding countries of western europe that were effected by world war 2.

This plan was to repel communism from spreading

It also offered aid to countries controlled by USSR but they did not accept the charity

This led to the divide between germany, or the Berlin wall** || ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT

The berlin airlift was after the soviet Union blockaded transportation to and from Berlin, so that nobody could help the city but themselves giving them practical ownership of the city.

The response to this was a huge airlift that was able to supply the city for quite a while their fore foiling the USSR's plans** || No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || ||
 * **NATO** || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**

During the red scare, the idea that anyone who questioned or challenged anything about the U.S. government was potentially a Communist. This was led by Joseph McCarthy. Many were blacklisted by the government for this. ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || The race and competition between the U.S and the USSR to get into and explore space. The Soviets put the fist satellite into space scaring the U.S. But in the end the U.S. was the first nation to land on the moon. ||