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1943-1953   Origins of the alliance  The Second Front  The Big Three  The War Time Conferences The Grand Alliance.

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2 1943-1953

3   Origins of the alliance  The Second Front  The Big Three  The War Time Conferences The Grand Alliance

4  TThe State of War GGermany PPoland EEastern Europe JJapan TThe United Nations OOutcomes of the Conference The Tehran Conference

5   The State of War  Germany  Poland  Eastern Europe  Japan  The United Nations  Outcomes of the Conference The Yalta Conference

6  RRoosevelt’s Death HHarry S. Truman GGermany surrendered unconditionally WWinston Churchill CClement Atlee SSoviet Army occupied much of Germany UUSA tested the atomic bomb Between Yalta and Potsdam

7   The State of War  Germany  Poland  Eastern Europe  Japan  The United Nations  Outcomes of the Conference The Potsdam Conference (July 1945)

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9   Salami Tactics  Polish ‘Free Elections’  Pressure on Iran  Greece and Turkey  Communist parties in Italy and France Key Developments 1946-1947 General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party: Mátyás Rákosi

10   Kennan’s Long Telegram: February 1946  Insecurity  Stalin’s Ideology  “cruel and repressive”  “logic of force”  Containment The Next Step

11   Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech March 1946 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/ 294419/Iron-Curtain

12   The Truman Doctrine  March 12, 1947  Problems in Greece  The British Response  The American Response Isolationism to Intervention…again

13   The Marshall Plan  Help the USSR?  Stated goals of the plan  Dollar Imperialism  Soviet Foreign Minister Vyshinksy Dollar Imperialism?

14   The Molotov Plan  Cominform  Stalin’s “Two Camp” Doctrine  COMECON The Marshall Plan

15   Red Army Occupation of Eastern Europe  Soviet Military Power  Salami Tactics  State police and security/spy networks  COMECON  The ‘Mr. X’ Article 1945-1947

16   The Czechoslovakian Coup  The Marshall Plan  Sense of Abandonment  Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk  Truman’s Response February 1948

17   Military Zones  The Allied Control Council (ACC)  Supply Shortages  Unifying Western Germany  Stalin’s Decision  The Berlin Blockade Berlin www.google.com/maps

18   Occupation Zones  Corridors  The Berlin Airlift  Stalin’s Response The Berlin Blockade

19  CContinuation of the division of Germany FFirst Republic of Germany KKonrad Adenauer GGerman Democratic Republic NNATO Results of the Blockade

20   Communism VS Capitalism  Future of Containment  The Role of the United Nations Conclusions

21   Optimism about Containment  “Ace Cards”  Power Shift  The Chinese Civil War  Mao Zedong  Chiang Kai-shek US Foreign Policy 1949-1950

22   Japanese Rule  Soviet Influences (38 th Parallel)  Communist Leader Kim Il Sung  President Syngman Rhee  Two Koreas Background

23   Mutual Defense agreements  Problems within the UN  Soviet Boycotts  June 1950 Background

24   Unification  The Soviet Response  Truman’s Response  “Police Action” Why did North Korea Invade South Korea?

25   The Initial Invasion  General Douglas MacArthur  Inchon to Seoul  The 38 th Parallel  From Containment to Rollback The Course of the War

26   Pyongyang  The Yalu River  November 1950: Help from China  Stalemate  MacArthur’s Dismissal  Peace Talks (1951)  Pressure on China  Armistice (July 1953) The Course of the War

27   Kim Il Sung  Synghman Rhee  Josef Stalin  Mao Zedong Major Players

28   The Spread of U.S. Forces  NATO  The Treaty of San Francisco, 1952  The Isolation of China  SEATO Results

29   For Korea?  For China?  For the USSR?  For Southeast Asia? What Did The Korean War Mean?

30  How did the Korean War impact the Cold War? The Effects

31  Total War or Limited War? One more question…….


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