1. Agenda: Fabulous Friday March 4, 2016 Warm-Up
The Century – The Best Years
Home Fun:
FN: Ch. 12 Sec. 1 The Cold War Begins
Warm-Up
After watching this week in a rap write down three things that happened this week. Choose one and explain why you think it was important.
3 bullet points
1-2 sentences
US History Week 8

2. Ch 12 Section 1 The Cold War Begins
EQ – How did U.S. leaders respond to the threat of soviet expansion?

3. Ideological Origins- A Conflict of Systems
Roots of the Cold War
Ideological Origins- A Conflict of Systems
United States Economic system: (mostly) laissez-faire capitalism Political system: Democratic elections Social system: Religious, legal equality stressed
Soviet Union Economic system: Marxist socialist government order Political system: Controlled by communist party Social system: atheistic, economic equality stressed
Why would people living in one of these nations distrust the other?

4. The Cold War an Ideological struggle
Soviet & Eastern Bloc Nations [“Iron Curtain”]
US & the Western Democracies
GOAL  spread world-wide Communism
GOAL  “Containment” of Communism & the eventual collapse of the Communist world. [George Kennan]
METHODOLOGIES:
Espionage [KGB vs. CIA]
Arms Race [nuclear escalation]
Ideological Competition for the minds and hearts of Third World peoples [Communist govt. & command economy vs. democratic govt. & capitalist economy]  “proxy wars”
Bi-Polarization of Europe [NATO vs. Warsaw Pact]

5. Roots of the Cold War Disagreement on future of Eastern Europe
Stalin: Keep Germany weak and divided. Eastern Europe controlled by U.S.S.R
U.S.: Stronger united Germany and independent Eastern Europe. Wanted free elections

6. Meeting the Soviet Challenge
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech:
(Fulton, Missouri) Speaking out against Soviet control.
Stated democratic countries need to stand firm
Greece and Turkey
Given aid by the U.S. to prevent communism taking hold

7. The Truman Doctrine
President Truman’s promise to aid Nations struggling against communism
Will be the basis for many decisions made during the Cold War

8. Containing Soviet Expansion
Containment: keep communism contained within its existing borders

9. Containing Soviet Expansion
The Marshall Plan:$13 billion in grants and loans to nations in Western Europe to help rebuild and resist communism
Aid offered to Soviet Satellite States. Stalin refused to let them accept it

10. The Cold War Heats Up Berlin Airlift:
Stalin created a blockade on the city to route out Western influence.
UK and US met the cities needs via air for a year. (Food, fuel, medical supplies, clothing)
Showed how far the U.S. would go to protect Europe from communism

11. Cold War Alliances NATO: 1949 alliance formed .
“an armed attack against one or more of them…shall be considered an attack against them all”
Collective security
Warsaw Pact: Soviet response.
Allies were controlled firmly by the U.S.S.R

12. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
United States
Belgium
Britain
Canada
Denmark
France
Iceland
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
1952: Greece & Turkey
1955: West Germany
1983: Spain

13. Warsaw Pact (1955) U. S. S. R. Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Rumania

14. Warsaw Pact
NATO