1. Monday Warm-Up Welcome Back!
Open your notebook to “The War at Home” handout. (the one with the bubbles)
Please complete the last bubble that says “Transition to Peace Time”. The answers can be found on page 217 of your coach book in the last paragraph.

2. GENERAL STATEMENTS ABOUT EARLY DAYS OF THE COLD WAR
After WW II, the U.S. and the Soviet Union (USSR) emerged as rival superpowers.
The Cold War ( ) was a state of hostility, without direct military conflict, between the U.S. and the USSR.
The U.S. and the USSR competed for influence around the world, especially in third world countries.
The Cold War had a huge impact on domestic politics, policies, and actions in both countries.

3. GENERAL STATEMENTS ABOUT EARLY DAYS OF THE COLD WAR
The Cold War led to an arms race, particularly the development of more powerful nuclear weapons.
The Cold War greatly impacted the foreign policy decisions of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

4. BEGINNING OF COLD WAR WWII had created distrust between US and USSR
USSR devastated by WWII
USSR wanted a weak Germany and control of countries on its western border

5. BEGINNING OF COLD WAR Post WWII, US controlled 50% of world’s wealth.
US had fought for democracy and wanted to expand it’s influence into Europe.
Churchill warns of an “iron curtain” descending across Europe, dividing free and communist controlled countries.

6. UNITED NATIONS
At Yalta, formation of a world peacekeeping organization was agreed on
October 1945, United Nations comes into existence
US and USSR often at odds

7. TRUMAN DOCTRINE US to help Greece and Turkey combat Soviet influence
Based on idea of containment
US, as a democracy, had a duty to resist communism and prevent communism from spreading across the globe

8. MARSHALL PLAN US would help Europe rebuild by loaning money
An attempt to stop spread of communism
A strong Europe would be beneficial for trade with the US

9. CRISIS IN GERMANY
Tensions grow in Germany and Berlin between Allies and Soviets. Allies combine their sections against Soviet Union
Soviets sealed off West Berlin and turned off its power

10. BERLIN AIRLIFT
For next 11 months, US and British planes delivered supplies to West Berlin
At times planes landed every 45 seconds day and night
Blockade was a disaster for Soviets and a triumph for Allies

12. NATO vs. Warsaw Pact NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Military alliance between US/Canada and western Europe
Form to fight Soviet aggression
Soviets countered by forming Warsaw Pact. This tied eastern Europe to Soviets

14. COMMUNISM IN CHINA Post WWII civil war in China
U.S. supports Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek
Communists led by Mao Zedong, take control
US saw this as another step toward worldwide communism
US failed to understand situation in China

15. KOREAN WAR After WWII, Korea is split like Germany
Korean War was about who would control a unified Korea, started by N. Korea
UN police action to stop war
Truman fires Gen. Macarthur
Truman believed in limited war
War ended in a stalemate that still exists

16. BEGINNING OF THE ARMS RACE
Soviets explode A-bomb, then U.S. detonates an H-bomb
John Foster Dulles urges brinkmanship with new leader of Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev.

17. “Duck and cover”

20. Francis Gary Powers and U-2 incident Soviet satellite Sputnik
COLD WAR IN THE SKIES
Francis Gary Powers and U-2 incident
Soviet satellite Sputnik

21. FEAR OF COMMUNISM IN U.S.
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)‏
Members of the committee looking for communists

22. The Hollywood Ten
The ten men were convicted of contempt. Their appeals of course were denied, all served prison terms of up to one year.

23. Spy Cases Feed Fear of Communism Ethel and Julius Rosenberg >
Alger Hiss

24. Senator Joseph McCarthy
MCCARTHYISM
McCarthy claimed that Communists were taking over the government and that Democrats were guilty of treason for allowing it to happen.
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Fear of Communism made many Americans willing to give up their constitutional rights.

25. TROUBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST EGYPT
Eisenhower Doctrine is formed to help any Middle-East country defend itself against communism.
DOMINO THEORY IS FORMED
Fear Against the Military Industrial Complex

26. COLD WAR IN CUBA
Castro led revolution in Cuba to end US control of Cuban economy
US biz had benefitted as most Cubans lived in poverty
Castro, spurned by the US, turns to Soviets for help
US now worried about communism in Cuba
Bay of Pigs: secret US mission to oust Castro

27. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1962: US finds Soviet missiles in Cuba
Oct. 1962: world on brink of nuclear war
Soviets back down, remove missiles
Both sides see the need to accept each other’s power and negotiate

28. Seen as a symbol of the cold war
1961: Soviets start construction of the Berlin Wall to prevent any more people to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin
Seen as a symbol of the cold war
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall is seen as the symbolic end of the Cold War

29. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress