Cold+War

**Copy this page onto a new page in your online notebook. To get an overview of the origins of the Cold War, begin by reading [|Allies to Enemies: Origins of the Cold War] from ABC-CLIO.** **Use pages 794-799 in //Creating America// and** **[|“The Cold War” research list on ABC-CLIO]** **to** **develop a complete description** **for each event or idea from the early years of the Cold War.** **This information will help set the stage for tomorrow's activity. Use the first entry as an example for detail.**

· ** The League of Nations failed mostly because the US did not join the organization ** · ** FDR encouraged Americans to support a world peace organization ** · ** On April 1945, delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco to discuss creating a new international peace keeping organization called the United Nations ** · ** In June 1945, all 50 nations approved the charter creating the new peacekeeping body known as the United Nations ** Containment- ** · ** Tensions between the US and the Soviet Union were increasing at that time in the 1940’s ** · ** The Truman Administration’s main strategy in the Cold War was in its containment policy ** · ** The goal of containment was to stop the spread of Communism ** · ** The US would use military and nonmilitary ways to contain communism ** The Truman Doctrine- ** · ** On March 12, 1947, Truman sent a message to Congress to let them know his foreign policy ** · ** The policy promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom ** · ** Truman’s aid was most financial – he gave $400 million to Greece and Turkey ** · ** The Truman Doctrine laid the foundation for the Marshall Plan ** ** The Marshall Plan- ** · ** The plan was proposed by Truman’s Secretary of State, George C. Marshall- which later was call the Marshall Plan ** · ** The purpose of the plan was to revive war-torn economies of Europe ** · ** The plan offered $13 billion in air to western and southern Europe—the money to be used for rebuilding of their nation ** · ** In 1945, the western zones of Germany were uniting into what was called Western Germany ** · ** The Soviets were threatened by the unification ** · ** Stalin put a blockade up around Berlin with the hopes of the Western powers leaving the area ** The Berlin Blockade and Airlift ** · ** Stalin prevents Berlin from accessing its necessary resources ** · ** Truman sends a huge airlift- which contained food, fuel, and equipment into the city ** · ** The airlift went on for nearly a year—there were approximately 275,000 flights into Berlin…. without the supplies Berlin would not have survived ** · ** In 1949, Stalin calls off the blockade ** · ** In May of 1949- Germany had been divided into the communist East Germany and democratic West Germany ** NATO and the WARSAW PACT ** · ** In 1948 there was concern about communist control of Eastern Europe which led to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ** · ** The NATO alliance included the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations. ** · ** In response, the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations formed the Warsaw Pact
 * United Nations- **

The Red Scare, The Rosenbergs, and HUAC ~hystaria started spreading into the united states and people became very supicious of eachother ~The rosenbergs gave information away to the russians about the warheads that the U.S. was making ~HUAC was made to try to investigate people that might be possible communists

Space Race ~We were surrounded by an iron curtain now because Russia had a satelite that could cover the world and surrounds the world **