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It's a big topic - so let's try to get it down to the bare essentials. Cut and paste this page into a new page on your Unit 8 notebook and use it as the beginning of a new set of notes on the early years of the Cold War.


 * AN ILLUSTRATED DEFINTION OF THE COLD WAR **


 * Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, __Creating America,__ and ABC-CLIO **

Helped the US in the Korean War || US should contain communism, stop it from spreading** || || promised to aid people struggling to resist threats to democracy || provide aid to countries that needed it so that they would not become communistic** || || When Stalin decided to block access to East Berlin because he wanted the other half too, the US sent in a giant airlift which provided them with fuel food and equipment. They provided tons of food, and eventually Stalin ended the blockade. || The North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed because they were scared communnism would take over europe. In response the Soviets made the Warsaw Pact. || || The communists defeated the nationalists in a civil war, so they took over china. They were lead by Mao Zedong. Nationalists went to Taiwan || No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity** || || Joe McCathy was a Senator from Wisconsin who used the korean war to build fear of communism. He started a large hunt for communists, which wrecked thousands of careers. He lead the red scare, where people accused each other of being communists just like the Salem witch trials. It was called McCarthyism ||
 * **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 || [[image:turningpoints09:yalta.jpg width="275" height="216" caption="yalta.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:turningpoints09:un.gif width="298" height="211" caption="un.gif"]] || **THE UNITED NATIONS**
 * **CONTAINMENT
 * [[image:turningpoints09:truman.jpg width="300" height="221" caption="truman.jpg"]] || **THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE**
 * **THE MARSHALL PLAN**
 * going to provide turkey and greece with cash-monies
 * [[image:turningpoints09:airlift.jpg width="289" height="194" caption="airlift.jpg"]] || **THE BERLIN AIRLIFT**
 * **NATO**
 * [[image:turningpoints09:PRCFounding.jpg caption="PRCFounding.jpg"]] || **COMMUNISM IN CHINA**
 * **THE KOREAN WAR
 * [[image:turningpoints09:180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg caption="180px-Joseph_McCarthy.jpg"]] || **MCCARTHYISM**
 * **THE SPACE RACE** || The US and the USSR raced to put something in space, put a man in space, and eventually a man on the moon. ||