The+Cold+War+Big+Picture 



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 **




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

No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || ||
 * **THE YALTA CONFERENCE**
 * Meeting near the end of WWII - big 3 meet to discuss post war Europe
 * Germany will be divided, controlled by the Allies
 * 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
 * Place were you are supposed to keep the peace
 * 5 major allies- US, England, France, Soviet Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ion, China
 * Permanent membership, thProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 e 5
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * Iron curtain has descended that splits up Europe
 * Kennan calls for containment
 * || [[image:turningpoints09:kennan.jpg width="246" height="177" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
 * they tried to help rebuild the countries after WWII so communism wouldn't spread
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN
 * stop the spread of red
 * $597 million to help countries
 * trying to stop the spreading and influence of communism
 * || [[image:turningpoints09:marshall.jpg width="266" height="282" caption="marshall.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**
 * brought supplies to the people of berlin ||
 * **NATO**
 * military alliance between the democratic European countries and the US
 * || [[image:turningpoints09:nato.png width="287" height="299" caption="nato.png"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * Mao Zedong took over
 * red communist china
 * government ruled all ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * government ruled all ||
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * accusing people of being communists (reds)
 * many innocent were accused
 * lives were ruined ||
 * **THE SPACE RACE**
 * race between russia and us to get the first man in space, first animal in space, first satellite in space, first man on the moon, first person to orbit the earth, etc. ||  || % || % ||