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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 **

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

the united nations was a nation of peace keepers,most countries were members kept world peace** started by stalin,winston Churchill and Eisenhower after WW2 || Containment is a policy that was first implemented by the United States in 1947 in response to communism. It is meant to prevent through political, economic, and diplomatic methods the growth of a hostile country's territory and to limit the country's ideological influence. ||  || he truman doctrine as it was called said that we should contain the spread of communism not that we should stop it but contain it or stop it from spreading to other countries especially greece and turkey which were in a great amount of stress at this time. It would set the stage for the marshall plan** || Marshall wanted to try to stop the spread of communism in the west and also try to lessen the hold the SU had on the other communist countries around them.He proposed this by giving them a sum of money that would help their econemies because many were struggling after WW2 only a few accepted and that is what kept them out of communist control the countries that were under the SU however declined** || || it was the massive amount of needed supplies that was given by the US to Berlin it was flown in** || Nato was the north atlantic treaty it was an agreement for military aid during the cold war in between a few different countries and the US its is still here today but is looking to change its focus since the cold war is over** || || communism spread to china from japan and korea which made the Chinese become allies of the SU** || No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || || mccarthyism was a HUGE part of the red scare he would arrest anyone most innocent that he thought were communists and although none were actually convicted it still ruined those peoples lives they were cut off by friends lost jobs.** || between the SU and the US they both rushed to in it to send the people into space to make the first satellite (sputnik) to have the first person on the moon (US to have the first person to orbit the earth \ ( UN) we eventually won with the first man on the moon ||
 * **THE YALTA CONFERENCE**
 * Meeting near the end of WWII - big 3 meet to discuss post war Europe
 * Germany will be divided, controlled by the Allizes
 * 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
 * **CONTAINMENT**
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT
 * **NATO
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || The space race was the beginning of space rivalry