Cold+War-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 align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**


 * Currently has existed for 50 years.** ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**


 * The United States response to the spread of communism. "**It is meant to prevent—through political, economic, and diplomatic methods—the growth of a hostile country's territory and to limit the country's ideological influence."

In other words, they are trying to keep countries from falling to communism by giving them stuff. || ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**


 * Gave economic help to Greece and Turkey to help keep them from falling to communism. This upset the USSR who were pushing for the spread of communism. Ultimately set the stage for the Marshall plan.** ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**


 * Attempted to stabilize Europe to keep communism away. 17 countries received money from the United States, which went towards repairing buildings, industry, and farms.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT**


 * Berlin was inside of USSR controlled territory. The USSR blocked West Berlin and the United States had to drop supplies from planes into it. The United States would eventually pull out of Berlin.** ||
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**


 * Nato was a treaty between capitalist nations formed in 1949 stating that an attack on one of them was an attack on all. The United States started stockpiling nuclear weaponry to help it.**


 * The Warsaw Pact was the communist response to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Soviet Union begins stockpiling nuclear weaponry to counter the United States.**


 * The arms race has begun.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:nato.png align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC**


 * People in the United States were scared of communism and accusing each other of being communist. The Rosenberg trials ended up with the execution of supposed communists.** ||
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** While the United States eyes were looking at Europe to stop the spread of communism, China becomes a communist nation which scares Americans. || [[image:turningpoints2010:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:korean67.gif align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] || **THE KOREAN WAR**


 * No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** ||
 * **MCCARTHYISM** || [[image:turningpoints2010:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:1sputnik.jpg align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] || **THE SPACE RACE**


 * Started when Sputnik was launched into the upper areas of Earths atmosphere. The United States and USSR were racing to get into space first. The USSR got there first, did the first space walk, but the United States was the first to the moon.** ||