Cold+War+-+Early+Years

C opy 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. **

- US helped anticommunist side, but still failed - New ruler, Mao Zedong, kicks nationalist party leader to Taiwan - shocks Americans, taking over the world...? - blames State Department, despite their efforts ||< ||
 * < **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"
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; none text-align: left; vertical-align: auto; vertical-align: auto;">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"]] ||< **<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 UNITED NATIONS **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - an alliance of nations to make and ensure peace - what could be better? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - basically asks everyone to be nice to each other **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - at the beginning, everyone inside thought it was a good idea, but some ended up feeling like they were being driven into a corner **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - still around today ** ||
 * < **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">CONTAINMENT **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - meant to contain Communism, drive it into a corner, basically make it so that it doesn't bother us. ** ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:kennan.jpg width="281" height="218" align="center" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] ||< **<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 TRUMAN DOCTRINE **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - President Truman says, "We need to stop the spread of communism!" **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - addressed Greece and Turkey in particular due to their poor economies and the fact that they were practically surrounded **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - basically says anything supported by the Soviets gets challenged by us! ** ||
 * < **<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 MARSHALL PLAN **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - Europe was VERY divided, with an "iron curtain" separating West and East **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - Big threats of Germany, Italy, and UK falling under Communist rule **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - Secretary of State Marshall suggests a plan to make West Europe stronger in the fight against communism **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - GIVE AID TO WESTERN EUROPE SO THEY DONT GET EATEN BY THE COMMIES ** ||< [[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; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - Berlin, Germany is kinda half-communist, half-capitalist at this point **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - Berliners are suffering under Soviet rule **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - Soviets try to block help out, but we find a way in through the air ** ||
 * < **<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 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - several anticommunist nations decide to band together to fight spread of Communism **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - communists don't like that, so Soviets force other Communist nations to form a similar pact **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - basically splits Europe even more ** ||< [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png width="382" height="367" align="center"]] ||
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg width="262" height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] ||< **<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 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - After several unfair prosecutions of alleged Communists, Americans form HUAC **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - HUAC takes anticommunist sentiment further and further, targeting the entertainment industry and forming blacklists of people not to trust **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - making a mountain out of a molehill ** ||
 * < <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 ** - September 1949, China falls to communism after a period of Civil War
 * < [[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 **

- starts people looking for Communists everywhere - basically, it made people paranoid and charged innocents for what they didn't do ||< || xxxxx
 * <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 ** - starts with Joseph McCarthy saying, "Look at the Korean War! That'll be happening to us in no time!"
 * < [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg width="201" height="225" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] ||< **<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 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> - HOLY CRAP RUSSIA'S IN SPACE?! ** ||