Cold+War+Early+Years

= The Cold War = A state of competition, tension, and hostility between the United States and their allies and the Soviet Union and their allies between 1945 and the early 1990's.

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

-To solve conflicts without war -5 countries that will be permanent members and they each have veto power. -England, France, United States, Soviet Union, China** || --Iron Curtain descends into Europe and the United States doesn’t want communism to spread. -Kennan calls for containment. Stop communism from spreading anywhere-not just to the US** || || -The United States has to do this because its our responsibility.** - This promised people aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom - This meant the U.S. would work in military and non-military ways to contain communism. || -WANTS US TO BE SPIDERMAN.** -To revive the war-torn economies of Europe-plan named after Truman's secretary of state -It offerd 13 billion dollars in aid to western and southern Europe- it helped the nations of Europe to rebuild || || - Stalin refuses to let the US come and and give food/supplies to Berlin(had all of berlin blocked off) - In order to bring the food in the U.S. dropped off food, fuel, and equiptment through airlift(planes) - This happens for about 1 year- there were 275,000 flights in total - It ended in 1949 || -The North Atlantic Treaty Organazatin was made during the scare of communism control in Eastern Europe - Canada, U.S. and ten western European Nations were in the group, NATO -In response the Soviet Union/Eastern Nations made a group called Warsaw Pact || || -In 1949 the Communists defeated the China in a civil war- creating China to be a communist state - Mao Zedong became the head of the new communist state, China - Americans viewed this as a plot for communism to rule the world -People in the old Chinese gov't fled to Taiwan || No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || || - A republican senator who blamed many of innocnet poeple of being communist - He used the Korean war to make people afraid of communism - People began hunting/looking for people that could be communist in there towns/neighborrhodds -The term McCarthyism stand for reckless charges against inncocent citizens - Slowly he faded from the public view || - In 1957 the space race started - The Soviet Union launched the first satelite into space(sputnik) - This meant that the Soviet Union had a missle strong enough to reach the United States - We raced to build a satelite- it was a race between the Soviet Union and U.S. to see who could accomplish the most in space ||  ||
 * **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
 * **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**