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The Cold War
UNIT 5 LESSON 2
Vocabulary
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Cold War
Yalta
Potsdam
NATO
Berlin Airlift
Communism
Marshall Plan
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Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Vietnam
Space Race
Origins of the Cold War
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US, USSR, Great Britain unnatural allies during
World War II
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US, Britain disagree with USSR’s policies & treatment
of citizens
USSR sees the west as decadent and natural
ideological enemies
Yalta and Potsdam Conferences (1945)
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Big 3
Decided on USSR declaration of war vs. Japan,
setting up of International Military Tribunal
Free elections for Eastern Europe
Allies Meet in Berlin, 1945
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USSR, US, and
Britain agree on
peace treaties
Problems between allies
 USSR
Doesn’t want to leave Eastern
Europe
 US, Britain want Eastern Europe to be free
and democratic
Stalin Breaks Promises
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Stalin arranges procommunist
governments in
Eastern European
countries
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1946: “Iron Curtain”
descends
What do they want?
Allies A unified, allied Germany
USSR (Russia) A weak, divided Germany
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Free, democratic
elections in Europe
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A “buffer” of friendly
countries to protect its
border
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To stop communism from
spreading
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To spread communism to
neighbors
What is a cold War?
– no actual shots fired
Hot war- active military
engagement
How long did it go on?
From about 1945 to 1991
Cold
Atomic Bomb
 U.S.
Drops the Atomic Bomb on Japan
 Yalta Conference 1945 Stalin, Churchill,
And FDR – Needed to figure what was
going to be done with Europe after the war
 Agreed on free elections in Poland
 With the election in Poland it looked like it
was going to be anti USSR so Stalin
refused to allow free elections
Roosevelt comes home from
Yalta
 With
the promise of Free elections in
Eastern Europe – Stalin actually had no
intention of giving up these areas
 Potsdam- Truman tells Stalin the U.S. has
the Bomb. Stalin does not commit to free
elections in Eastern Europe
 Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech – Tells
about the spread of Communism – Divided
Eastern and Western Europe
After WWII
 USSR
– still has most factories and large
Army
 USA - had the atomic bomb with their
cities and farms are still intact
The Truman Doctrine (1947)
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World divided into free and
enslaved states
 US to support all
movements for democracy
 “containment” of
Communism
 NATO and the Warsaw
Pact established
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Militarization of Cold War
The Truman Doctrine
Gives money to Greece and Turkey to
fight off communism – gives $400,000,000
Containment – George Kennan – to stop
the spread of Communism
 Marshall Plan: Economic recovery
program in Western Europe – $13 billion in
aid
 Molotov plan: the soviets economic
recovery program in Eastern Europe
The Marshall Plan
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Proposed in 1947, $13
billion to reconstruct
western Europe
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The United Nations
formed (1945) to resolve
international disputes
Division of Germany
 Germany
was divided into four separate
zones after the end of WWII.
 Each zone would be occupied and
governed by the military forces of the
U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet
Union.
 Germany was also forced to pay over $20
billion in reparations.
Soviet Blockade in Berlin
 Soviets
occupied Eastern Germany
 France, U.S. G.B. Controlled the west
Germany
 Berlin is also divide up into 4 sections
 USSR blockades West Berlin
 The west starts to fly in supplies into Berlin
End of the Berlin Airlift
 U.S.
Showed the world how far they were
willing to go to protect democracy and
contain communism
Question 4
 Why
did Stalin create a blockade of west
Berlin?
 What would of happened if the U.S.S.R
shot down an allied plane?
China
 Nationalists
of Jiang Jeist – supported by
the U.S.
 Jiang Jeist Nationalists Vs. Communist
 Civil war
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1949China becomes communist
Mao Tse-Tung – leader
China is the world’s largest population
Great Leap Forward
► 5 year plan to increase agriculture
and industry
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Failed due to poor quality of
►products,
Communes
poor weather hurt
 Groups of people who live and work
agriculture
together
 Property held in common
 Had production quotas
► Failed due to poor quality of
products, poor weather hurt
agriculture
NATO
 North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
 An Attack on G.B. France, Netherlands,
Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Greece
and Turkey, would be considered attack
on the U.S.
USSR gets the bomb
 September
1949 USSR exploded their first
atomic bomb
 In response the U.S. builds the Hydrogen
bomb – USSR 1yr later test one of their
own
 Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
Korea
 After
WWII Korea became divided into two
different sections
 N. Korea became a soviet Satellite
 South Korea became an American and
United Nations sponsored nation
 N. Korea attack’s S. Korea to force a
unification on Communist’s terms
 U.S. Police action
Police Action
 General
MacArthur
 38th Parallel
 Drives the N. Korea’s back to China
 China joins the war
 Truman fires MacArthur – MacArthur –
wanted to attack China.
 Truman did not. MacArthur openly
disagreed with the President
The Forgotten War
 General
Eisenhower won the Presidency
in 1952 “ Promise to end the war”
 Eisenhower threatened Nuclear Attack
 Ends in a stalemate in July of 1953
 1.4 million N. Korean and Chinese soldiers
were killed
 2 million civilians
 54,000 American soldiers
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and 7 eastern European
nations signed the Warsaw Pact, which
served a communist military counter to
NATO
Members are not free to leave
Falling Domino Principle
President Eisenhower takes
over
 Instead
of building up a conventional
military he focuses on building nuclear
weapons and planes, missiles and
submarines that can carry them.
 Massive Retaliation:
 John Foster Dulles, Brinkmanship:
 Joseph Stalin dies – Nikita Khrushchev
 July 1955 Eisenhower and Khrushchev
meet at Geneva “peaceful co-existence”
The Cold War Goes Global
 Poland
workers riot against USSR and
gained greater control of the government.
 Hungary- wanted to have pro Soviet
Hungarian officials removed. Khrushchev responded brutality and killed
the protesters. And restored the hard line
communist government
 U.S. sat and watched as this happened
Space Race
 Sputnik-
first satellite to orbit the earth
 U.S. creates NASA
 Both countries spend money on education
and military defense
CUBA
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Cuba
 Fulgencio
Batista
 Fidel Castro
 Cuba turn Communist
 Bay of Pigs
 Cuban Missile Crisis