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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 **

Insert your illustrated and annotated PowerPoint slide here


 * Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, __Creating America,__ and ABC-CLIO **

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || ||
 * **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**
 * similar to the league of nations
 * tries to solve conflicts without war
 * they have five permanent members that had veto power
 * big battle ground for the cold war ||
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * an iron curtain has descended
 * falls on europe
 * communism is spreading in europe
 * calls for containment- they wanted to stop communism from spreading || [[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**
 * Truman wants to do it with money
 * The us needs to invest in foreign countries like turkey and greece ||
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * they are asking people to give money
 * so they can stop the spread of communism
 * give foreign countries to rebuild after WW2 so they cant be taken over by russia
 * marshall thinks us is spiderman || [[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**
 * supplies were shorttened
 * USSR planned to blockade the US part of berlin and make them suffer and then make them hand over that part of berlin, becasue they didnt have any food and people were dying
 * planes dropped food down into Berlin'
 * For most people it was the only supplies they got. ||
 * **NATO**
 * was formed to help prevent wars between countries
 * many countires signed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA
 * 1949 the communists beat China in a civil war causing China to become a communist nation
 * Mao Zedong became the head of the communist state in China
 * Americans saw this as a plot to have communism rule the world
 * People in the old Chinese government fled to Taiwan.
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * people would blame other people for no reason.
 * is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.
 * many thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers ||