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**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:yalta.jpg width="299" height="227" align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * Suez Canal in Egypt connected Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
 * After anger over Egypt's connections w/ USSR, Britain, the U.S. withdraws aid to Egypt
 * Egypt seizes the Suez Canal in Egypt which was controlled by France and Britain
 * France, Britain and Israel join to attack Egypt
 * USSR threatens to help Egypt and fight France, Britain and Israel
 * U.S. and Soviet Union, along with the rest of the UN, pressure France, Britain, and Israel to withdraw from Egypt
 * The United Nation imposed ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * Stop the spread of communism
 * Use military and non-military tactics
 * First implemented by the United States in 1947
 * Use of political, economic, and diplomatic methods employed
 * Tried to limit the physical growth of the Soviet Union's territory
 * Limit ideological influence of USSR ||  || [[image:kennan.jpg width="281" height="218" align="center" caption="George Kenean"]] ||
 * George Kenean ||  ||
 * [[image:truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * Promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom
 * From President Harry Truman in a message to Congress in 1947
 * Was a plan for foreign policy in the Cold War
 * Gave active role to U.S. in stopping spread of communism
 * Especially referred to Greece and Turkey who needed economic aid to hold off communism
 * Thought that USSR was funding communist movements there and U.S. needed to fund anticommunist movements
 * Congress gave about $400 million to the two countries
 * Gave "//backbone// " of America's cold war policy ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * Hoping to prevent the spread of communism, the United States came up with a plan to revive the war-torn economics of Europe. The plan was named for Truman's Secretary of State, George C. Marshall.
 * The Marshall Plan offered 13 billion in aid to western and southern Europe.
 * The plan helped the nations of Europe rebuils || [[image:marshall.jpg align="center" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:airlift.jpg width="344" height="261" align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT**
 * The Berlin airlift was a massive transfer of essential supplies flown into Berlin by British and U.S. forces in around-the-clock missions.
 * As the cold war rivalries between the Soviet Union and the Western powers intensified, the Soviet forces in March 1948 began to harass ground transport that connected West Berlin to West Germany
 * Soviet troops halted all railroad traffic between Berlin and the West.
 * The dwindling of food supplies for more than 2 million civilians in West Berlin was also key to Operation Vittles, as the airlift was dubbed in the U.S. military.
 * 277,264 flights were made into Berlin carrying 2,343,315 tons of food and coal.
 * On July 26, 1948, the Western powers halted all trade with East Germany in retaliation for the blockade. The Soviets ended the blockade on May 12, 1949 and conceded defeat. ||
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**
 * The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America
 * 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
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-weight: normal;">NATO members pledged to work toward reaching agreement with Warsaw Pact countries on equitable and verifiable arms reduction and to cooperate within the alliance in economic, scientific, and cultural areas. || [[image:nato.png width="241" height="286" align="center" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg width="262" height="229" align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC**
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana; font-weight: normal;">Red Scarce refers to the irrational but rampant fear of communism that swept the United States twice during the 20th century . <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana; font-weight: normal;">Widespread hysteria over labor strikes and protest movements, which were blamed on communists and other radicals.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
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-weight: normal;">Julius Rosenberg was arrested for spying and providing Russia with secrets about the atomic bomb. The Rosenbergs vehemently proclaimed their innocence during the trial, the jury found all three guilty of espionage ||
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA** By the U.S. ignoring the threat, Hundreds of thousands of Chinese Communist troops attacked in human waves across Yalu River into North Korea. They drove the UN troops back to South Korea || [[image:PRCFounding.jpg align="center" caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:korean67.gif width="221" height="225" align="center" caption="korean67.gif"]] || **THE KOREAN WAR

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 * **MCCARTHYISM** * A republican senator, Joseph McCarthy, from WIsconsin
 * He declared he had a numerous amount of people in the Communist party, however, these facts were never proven, but his claim launched a hunt for Communists that wrecked the careers of thousands of people.
 * Term came to stand for reckless charges against innocent citizens || [[image:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg align="center" caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:1sputnik.jpg width="201" height="225" align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] || **THE SPACE RACE**
 * In 1957, the superpower began a space race
 * The Soviet union stunned the world by launching the world's first space satellite.
 * This meant that the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the United States
 * Congress set aside billions of collars for space research ||