Chapter 27: Cold War America 1945-1960 Chapter 27 Learning Objecties 1. What were the origins of the Cold War? Explain its broad ideological, economic, political, & military components. 2. Analyze & discuss America s plans of containment & economic aid & the consequent eents that characterized foreign affairs between 1945-1852. 3. What were the causes, conduct, & consequences of the Korean War? 4. How did the Cold War affect domestic economic & political affairs in the 1950s? 5. How & why did ciil rights emerge as a national domestic issue after 1945?
Yalta Conference Sets the Stage for the Cold War BBC. "Days That Shook the World: 1901 1954." unitedstreaming: http://www.unitedstreaming.com/
Soiet & Eastern Bloc Nations Iron Curtain GOAL spread worldwide Communism The Cold War 1945-1991: An Ideological Struggle METHODOLOGIES: 1. Espionage [KGB s. CIA] 2. Arms Race [nuclear escalation] US & Western Democracies GOAL Containment of Communism & the eentual collapse of the Communist world. [George Kennan] 3. Ideological Competition for the minds and hearts of Third World peoples [Communist got. & command economy s. democratic got. & capitalist economy] proxy wars 4. Bi-Polarization of Europe [NATO s. Warsaw Pact]
The Iron Curtain From Stettin in the Balkans, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lies the ancient capitals of Central and Eastern Europe. -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1946
Post-War Germany
Section 1: The Cold War Abroad What factors gae rise to the Cold War between the United States & the Soiet Union? What were the key aspects of the Truman Doctrine? What were the key aspects of the Marshall plan? What was the Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift? What was the significance of this eent? What was NATO? What was the Warsaw Pact?
Truman Doctrine 1947 1. Ciil War in Greece. 2. Turkey under pressure from the USSR for concessions in the Dardanelles. 3. The U. S. should support free peoples throughout the world who were resisting takeoers by armed minorities or outside pressures We must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. 4. The U.S. gae Greece & Turkey $400 million in aid.
Truman Doctrine 1947
1. European Recoery Program. 2. Secretary of State, George Marshall Marshall Plan 1948 3. The U. S. should proide aid to all European nations that need it. This moe is not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poerty, desperation, and chaos. 4. $12.5 billion of US aid to Western Europe extended to Eastern Europe & USSR, [but this was rejected].
Poster designed to build support for the Marshall Plan Marshall Plan 1948
Berlin Blockade & Airlift 1948-1949
Berlin Blockade & Airlift 1948-1949 BBC. "Days That Shook the World: 1901 1954." unitedstreaming: http://www.unitedstreaming.com/
The Arms Race: A Missile Gap? The Soiet Union exploded its first A- bomb in 1949. Now there were two nuclear superpowers!
North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1949 United States Luxemburg Belgium Netherlands Britain Norway Canada Portugal Denmark France Iceland Italy 1952: Greece & Turkey 1955: West Germany 1983: Spain
Warsaw Pact 1955 U. S. S. R. East Germany Albania Hungary Bulgaria Poland Czechosloakia Rumania
Mao s Reolution-the Establishment of the People s Republic of China: 1949 Who lost China?
Mao s Reolution-the Establishment of the People s Republic of China: 1949 Mao Zedong BBC. "Days That Shook the World: 1901 1954." unitedstreaming: http://www.unitedstreaming.com/
What impact did NSC-68 & and the Korean War hae on the deelopment of Cold War American defense policy? How did the Korean War demonstrate the strengths & weaknesses of the new United Nations? Why did President Truman & General Douglas MacArthur clash during the Korean War? Was the Korean War a successful demonstration of the Truman Doctrine & Containment or a failure? Korean War 1950-1953
BBC. "Days That Shook the World: 1901 1954." unitedstreaming: http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ Korean War 1950-1953