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Postwar Europe and the Birth of the Cold War

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1 Postwar Europe and the Birth of the Cold War

2 Things to Cover Postwar Europe Causes of the Cold War Worksheet
The Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine Division of Germany Berlin Blockade Causes of the Cold War Worksheet

3 We Didn't Start the Fire - 1989

4 Postwar Europe

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8 The Marshall Plan European Recovery Program (ERP)
Sec. of State George Marshall Began in April 1948 and lasted four years

9 The Marshall Plan Provided monetary aid to recovering European countries Most nations affected by World War II accepted USSR did not

10 Truman Doctrine 1947 Greece and Turkey

11 Division of Germany

12 Berlin Blockade

13 Berlin Blockade June 1948-May 1949 Soviets cut off railroads to Berlin
US Air Force and the British Royal Air Force

14 Berlin Blockade Over 200,000 flights total
Approximately 550 flights a day Brought necessities of life

15 Berlin Blockade Humiliates Soviets (thus widening the ideological gap between East and West) Leads to creation of East and West Germany

16 Causes of the Cold War

17 Causes of the Cold War Ideological Issues Economic Issues
Tensions from WWII Containment Atomic bombs

18 Iron Curtain Speech

19 Cold War Figures WS

20 Rocky IV - Cold War


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