Cold+War+Early+Years

In the cold was the united nations were trying to keep peace through out the war and trying not to let the US and russia go to war, because they didn't want an other war because they had just got out of one. || username mtaft, password usm**)** The Truman Doctrine was the name given to a policy announced by US President Harry Trumanon March 12th, 1947. The Truman Doctrine was a very simple warning clearly made to the USSR – though the country was not mentioned by name – that the USAwould intervene to support any nation that was being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority. The Truman Doctrine has to be assessed against the background of what had happened in Europe at the end of World War 2 and in the immediate aftermath. || username mtaft, password usm**)** It was a promise that the US would help britan france and all of europe build itself back up.the US wanted to expand its US policy to other country around the world.stop russia's goverment from expanding || || username mtaft, password usm**)** was one of the first major international crises of the Cold war. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany the Sovit Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. the US was dropping supplies into berlin and russia shot down of our planes and killed some of our people. || more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defensetreaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.  The Warsaw Pact was a Soviet military response to the integration of West Germany into nato in 1955, per the Paris Pacts of 1954.  The strategy of the Warsaw Pact was dominated by the desire to prevent, at all costs, the recurrence of an invasion of Russian territory. || || the chinies had confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U.S. government officials, and the Korean War and now people were scared in the US and couldn't trust anyone becayuse they could be spying for the russians. || . China had been fighting a civil war since the 1920’s and a full-scale war with the Japanese since 1937 to 1945. After nearly 20 years of fighting, China now many problems.The country had little industry. What had existed had been destroyed after so many years of war. Money was valueless. The towns had high unemployment. The countryside was experiencing food shortages; and if the countryside was not producing food, then the cities were bound to be short of food as well. the country was in very bad shape. || || During the McCarthy era, thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government or private-industry panels, committees and agencies. The primary targets of such suspicions were government employees, || || The space race between the US and the soviet union and it was a race to see who could get into space first and the russians did first but the US was the first to reach the moon. also to see who could get there satalites in space and there necular rockets. ||
 * **THE YALTA CONFERENCE**
 * Meeting near the end of WWII - big 3 meet to discuss post war Europe
 * Germany will be divided, controlled by the Allies
 * Liberated Eastern European countries will have new elections
 * United Nations will be formed
 * USSR is given great influence over Eastern Europe, and new government must be "Soviet freindly"
 * the roots of the Cold War are established || [[image:turningpoints2010/yalta.jpg align="center" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/un.gif align="center" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * **CONTAINMENT ([|Video available] -** username mtaft, password usm**)** || [[image:turningpoints2010/kennan.jpg align="center" caption="kennan.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/truman.jpg align="center" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE ([|Video available]-**
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN** **([|Video available]-**
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/airlift.jpg align="center" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT ([|Video]****[|available]**
 * **NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT**
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg align="center" caption="19471023_Reagan_HUAC.jpg"]] || **THE RED SCARE, THE ROSENBERGS, AND HUAC ([|Video available]-** username mtaft, password usm**)**
 * **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * at this point of time china was a communisum country and**
 * || **THE KOREAN WAR**
 * No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** ||
 * MCCARTHYISM ([|Video available]- username mtaft, password usm**)**
 * [[image:turningpoints2010/1sputnik.jpg align="center" caption="1sputnik.jpg"]] || **THE SPACE RACE ([|Video available]-** username mtaft, password usm**)**