Cold+War+The+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**
 * **Established after WWII to act as the watchdog for the world and try to make world peace**
 * **The UN charter was drafted in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945 at the United Nations Conference on International Organization by representatives of 50 countries.**
 * **Each country that is in it have** **representatives** **and has to pay money to the UN every year to keep it going.** ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * **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.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:kennan.jpg align="center" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * **The policy was one that mandated an active role for the United States in containing the spread of communism around the world.** ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**


 * **It offered 13 billion dollars in aid to Western and SOuthern Europe.**
 * **It was to help the Nations rebuild and try to prevent the spread of Communism.**
 * To stabilize the Nation's **economies and infrastructures**
 * **Between 1948 and 1952, 17 European nations received Marshall Plan funds.**
 * **The monies helped to restore industry, agriculture, and trade, while they shored up financial institutions.** || [[image:turningpoints2010:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010:airlift.jpg align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT**


 * In response to when America, Britain and France combined their zones of Germany to make West Germany, Russia started a blockade against all of West Germany to stop supplies from entering. America then sent planes over West Germany and dropped supplies like water, food and other important things to help out the citizens living there.** ||
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**
 * **The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America.**
 * **The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949 by Great Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, United States, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, and Portugal.**
 * **NATO was organized to defend member nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe, which formed the Warsaw Treaty Organization six years later. (Is was a Russian Treaty/Organization)**
 * **It is funded from the military budgets of member nations.**
 * The counties cannot always agree on what to do regarding some
 * situations like how to handle military actions.**


 * **The Warsaw Pact was kind of like the NATO but is was an alliance between Russia and her friends.** || [[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**


 * During the Cold War the news made it seem as that people had to careful about what they said because there were Russian spies everywhere. The Rosenberges was a couple that was killed because people thought that they were Russian Communists. They were charged with passing atomic secrets to the Russians.**
 * The second red scare occurred during a period of the cold war in the late 1940s and early 1950s when Americans were particularly concerned with the rise of communism. Several events, including the fall of China to communism, the Rosenberg trial, and the McCarthy hearings in particular, left Americans fearing a communist takeover of the government, often to the point of paranoia.** ||
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** In September of 1949 the Communists defeated the Nationalists in China. Mao Zedong became the leader of the Communists. Many Americans feared that is was part of a plan to rule the world. || [[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** In February of 1950 Senator McCarthy declared that he had a list of 205 state department officials that were Communists. This was never proven but because of this a hunt for Communists was on in America. Because of this thousands of people lost their jobs and their lives were ruined. || [[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**


 * In 1957 Russia sent the Sputnik into space. All it did was transmit a beep back to the ground but America learned that Russia could send missiles to America. This started the Space race. Congress sent aside billions of dollars for space research. This led America to send a man to the moon.** ||