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THE COLD WAR: THE EARLY YEARS
THE IDEALOGICAL STRUGGLE
 Soviet and __________________ bloc nations
o goal:
 US and the ___________________________ democracies
o goal
 Methods:
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 The world became divided into 2 camps, ___________________ vs. ___________________ nations
 non-aligned nations (________________________, _____________________) tried to play both sides off
each other
o non-aligned nations were usually in the “Third World” – former colonies
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (1949)
 ______________________________
 Luxemburg
 Britain
 ____________________________________
 ______________________________
 Norway
 Denmark
 _____________________________________
 _____________________________
 1952: Greece & Turkey
 Iceland
 1955: ________________________________
 _____________________________
 1983: Spain
WARSAW PACT (1955)
 _____________________________
 East Germany
 Albania
 _____________________________________
 _____________________________
 Poland
 Czechoslovakia
 _____________________________________
COMMON IDEALOGIES: Foreign policy for democracies operated based on several main ideas
The Iron Curtain: represented the division in Europe’s mostly __________________ Western Europe and
___________________________ Eastern Europe
______________________________________ (1947) The U. S. should ___________________ peoples who were
resisting ________________________ by armed _____________________ or outside ______________________
• [aka: We will help you fight the dirty red commies]
• ”We must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.”
______________________________________________: Theory of Democratic Governments
• ___________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
1. “________________________________________________________________.”
2. The U. S. should provide ____________ to ____________ European nations that need it. This move is
not against any country or doctrine, but against ____________________, __________________,
_____________________________, and _________________. TO STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM!
3. $12.5 billion of US aid to ______________________________ extended to _______________________ &
____________________, [_________________________________________________________].
POST WAR GERMANY
Germany was divided into two pieces, _________________________ (____________________) &
______________________________ (____________________________________)
While Europe began rebuilding, the U.S. and its
allied and the Soviet Union clashed over
Germany. Soviets wanted to keep their former
enemy weak and divided but in 1948 France,
Britain and the U.S. withdrew their forces from
Berlin and allowed their occupation zones to form
1 nation. The Soviet Union responded by holding
West Berlin hostage.
BERLIN CRISIS: FIRST SHOWDOWN OF THE COLD WAR
• USSR tries to cut off all of Berlin from the West
• ________________ and _____________________ planes drop supplies to ____________________
• The ___________________________ backed down
• 1961 - the ______________________ began building a wall to prevent _______________________ to the
__________________________. Berlin was split in ______________________.
BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT (1948 – 1949)
• _________________________: Soviets cut off highway, water and rail traffic to Berlin’s western zones.
• ________________________: American and British troops flew food and supplies into West Berlin for
nearly 11 months
THE ARMS RACE
• The Soviet Union exploded its first A-bomb in 1949.
• Now there were two nuclear superpowers
ASSIGNMENT
Use your notes in order to complete this assignment on another sheet of paper.
1. Poetry: Using the word containment, write an acrostic poem that describes the word.
2. Complete a political cartoon depicting the Truman Doctrine.
3. Create a pictoword for Domino Theory
4. Define the Marshall Plan & the Berlin Conference. Draw a picture representing both.