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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.


 * AN ILLUSTRATED DEFINTION OF THE COLD WAR **

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 * 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
 * the United nations helped the US in the cold war
 * it is like the peace maker between all the nations
 * countries go to them for answers to their problems and advice from them
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * **CONTAINMENT**


 * It was to stop communism.
 * The United States would work in miltary and nonmiltary ways to contain communism
 * It was a cold war strategy || [[image:turningpoints09:kennan.jpg width="246" height="177" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**


 * It promised aid to people stuggling to resist threats to democratic freedom.
 * Was a cold war strategy ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**


 * Made by George C. Marshall
 * It offered 13 million dollars in aid to western and southern Europe.
 * The plan hoped to stabilize Europe—thus protecting it against communist influences—by repairing European economies and infrastructures.
 * 17 European countries got the funds.
 * It was to help restore many thing such as, industry, agriculture, and trade || [[image:turningpoints09:marshall.jpg width="266" height="282" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**


 * Berlin, former capital of germany was held by the Soviet Union.
 * Berlin was divided into East and West Berlin.
 * In 1948, Stalin hoped to force the Western powers to leave the city.
 * Truman responded by sending a huge airlift of food, fuel, and equitment. ||
 * **NATO**


 * "The United States and its European allies believed that a strong military and a united political front would deter the Soviets from an attack." ABC clio.
 * They formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
 * It included The United States, Canada, and western European nations.
 * It rested on the idea that each member nation would treat an attack on any other member as an attack on itself.
 * The Warsaw Pact was made into response to the NATO by the Sovite Union and it's allies. || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA

there was still communism in china No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || ||
 * they got involved in the korean war
 * thought americans were a threat entering North Korea so they pushed them back
 * they were under communism
 * america saw this as a threat to their democracy
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**


 * It was made from the person Joseph Maccarth
 * He was delcared that he had a lost of 205 people who belonged in the communist party. But charges were never proven.
 * So, the term //Mccarthyism// came to stand for reckless charges against innocent citizens. ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**


 * It was against the USA and Soviet Union to see who get into space first
 * The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite in 1957.
 * Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit the Earth.
 * John Glenn, Jr. becomes the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth.
 * U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins make it to the moon. Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon and was followed by Buzz Aldrin.
 * And by the US reaching the moon first the USA won the space race. ||  ||