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THE COLD WAR
Ch 29: Europe and North America
Map Activity
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Locate and label the Soviet Union, United States,
Great Britain, Cuba, Turkey, Canada, South Korea,
Iran, France, and Australia.
Label the countries that were allies of the Soviet
Union, and those that were allies of the US. (Use a
key!)
This will be on your test Friday!
Potsdam Conference
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Germany in ruins
Divided Germany & Berlin into 4 zones of
occupation
Nuremberg Trials
 Tried
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more than 200 Nazi and military leaders
Germany to pay war reparations
The Cold War
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Era of hostility and tension between the US and the
Soviet Union
“Iron Curtain” used to describe sharp division of Europe
Truman Doctrine – oppose spread of communism
Marshall Plan, 1947, to rebuild Europe
US Policy of Containment – block Communist expansion
Kick Off
December 18, 2013
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Textbook page 868
#2, 6, 10, 12, 17, 18
Cold War Confrontations
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1947, Crisis in Berlin
Berlin Airlift
Germany
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West – Federal Republic of Germany
East – German Democratic Republic, or East
Germany
New Alliances
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NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 US,
Canada, most Western European nations
 Counter Soviet power
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Warsaw Pact, 1955
Cold War Questions
Kick Off
January 6, 2013
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1. The prom king and queen are always the most popular
people in school. Can there be multiple prom kings and queens
in the same school? Why or why not?
2. Read page 900, and answer questions 1 and 2 on page
901.
THE COLD WAR
The Struggle Begins
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Era of hostility and tension between the US and
Soviet Union
United States vs. Soviet Union
Capitalism vs. Communism
Although the US and USSR
never fought each other, the
tensions heated up and
created “satellite wars.”
US Policy of Containment
Truman Doctrine – pledge to provide
economic and military aid to oppose
spread of communism
 Marshall Plan – provided $13 billion for
rebuilding Europe
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Confrontations
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1947, split Germany into zones of occupation
1948, Soviets blockaded West Berlin
 Berlin
Airlift
 Soviets call off blockade in 1949
Superpower Rivalries
Arms Race
Struggle between nations to gain advantage in
weapons
 1952, US tests hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
 US & USSR increase stockpile of nuclear
weapons
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 Deterrence
– development of military power to
prevent attack
Sputnik
World’s first satellite to orbit the earth
 Launched by USSR in 1957
 Causes US government to establish
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) in 1958
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Public Fears
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Bomb shelters
Air-raid drills
Red Scare in the US
 1940s
and 50s
 Sen. Joseph McCarthy
 Expose communists in American film industry and
government
Berlin Wall
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1961, East German residents working in West
Berlin
East Germany erected Berlin Wall to stop exodus
 Those
trying to cross would be shot by guards
Cuba
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1959, communist rebels overthrow Cuba’s dictator
US tries to overthrow Castro (new communist leader)
Bay of Pigs Invasion
 Invaders
defeated
Cuban Missile Crisis
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1962
Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles in Cuba
2-week standoff resulted in Soviet leaders
removing missiles from Cuba
 US
removed missiles from Turkey
Attempts at Arms Control
Description
1955, Open Skies Treaty
1963, Test Ban Treaty
1968, __________
________________
(_____________)
1988, IntermediateRange Nuclear Force (INF)
Treaty
Effects
Changing Societies
United States
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Strong economy, driven by increase in consumer spending
GI Bill of Rights
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Helped American veterans go to college
Baby boom
Civil Rights
Women’s Rights
Counterculture – rebellion of teens and young adults againt
mainstream society
Postwar Soviet Union
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Command economy
 Government
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controls all economic decisions
Nikita Khrushchev
 Leader
of Soviet Union
 Effort to “de-Stalinize” Soviet Union
 Still committed to communism
Revolutions in Eastern Europe
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1980, Poland: Solidarity
 Anti-government
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protest movement
Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution
Romanian revolution resulted in bloodshed
1989, East Germany opened gates of Berlin Wall
Mikhail Gorbachev
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1985, leader of Soviet Union
Glasnost – “openness”
 Willingness
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to openly discuss Soviet Union’s problems
Perestroika – “restructuring”
 Reform
of Soviet economic and political system
After the Cold War
Soviet Union Collapses
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1991, Soviet government ceased to
function after republics gained
independence
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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1992, declare independence from Yugoslavia
Bosnian Serbs wanted to remain part of Yugoslavia,
started war to prevent Bosnian independence
Serbs used ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims
US-led diplomatic effort finally ended violence in
1995
Cold War Scavenger Hunt
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Start at your assigned
letter/color. Write it on your
paper.
Write the statement you see at
the bottom of the paper.
Complete the statement with a
vocab word.
Find the vocab word at
another station.
Repeat!
Vocab word