Download Post War America Chapter 9: The Cold War and the American Dream

Post War America:
America Fights a Cold War
• Cold War: Conflict
between US and
USSR competing for
domination of world
affairs with the
constant threat of
war.
Origins of Cold War
• Stalin installs proSoviet governments in
Eastern Europe
• Division of Berlin
The Berlin Airlift
• Stalin blocks access to
Berlin
• Truman begins airlift
to provide food, fuel
and equipment to city.
• Lasted nearly a year
• Stalin finally gave up.
Containment
• Containment: to
stop the spread of
Communism.
Communism
• An economic system in which the state
plans and controls the land and
businesses and all goods are equally
shared by the people.
Communism
• You have two cows.
The government
takes both of them
and gives you part
of the milk.
Capitalism
• An economic system in which property
and investment in business are owned
and controlled by individuals directly or
through ownership of shares in
companies.
Capitalism
• You have two cows.
You sell one of
them, and buy a
bull.
Marshall Plan
• Marshall Plan: help
rebuild war torn
Europe and prevent
the spread of
Communism.
Truman Doctrine:
• Truman Doctrine:
policy promising aid
($) to people fighting
to maintain
democracies.
NATO
• NATO: North
Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
Military alliance
between US,
Canada, and
Western European
nations.
Warsaw Pact
• A military treaty and
association of
Eastern European
countries, formed in
1955 by the Soviet
Union, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia,
East Germany,
Hungary, Poland,
and Romania.