1945-49

Start of Cold WarAnd getting back to life at home

United Nations1945

Iron Curtain SpeechWinston Churchill 1946

Greece and TurkeyUSSR giving aide in Civil War in both countries to help the socialist cause

Truman Doctrine 1947Containment

Policy

The Marshall Plan 1948(Containment Policy)

US effort to Rebuild Europe

Marshall Plan

1. US picks up cost of rebuilding2. US will help but Americans will be

allowed to open businesses and establish trade once the rebuilding process has begun.

Problem for USSR

The USSR leaves the Marshall meetings and refuses to take part in

the rebuilding effort of Europe.

Start of the Cold WarUS vs. USSR

Problems in West Berlin 1948 East Germans and Russia shut off

water, electricity and travel of trains into West Berlin

What would be the US responseto the Berlin issue?

US proposes1.Bomb Russia and East Germany2.Bring supplies to East Berlin

Berlin Airlift 1948

N.A.T.O 1949 – US and Western European alliance to stop the

spread of communism

Russia Gets Bomb 1949

How did they get the bomb?

Home Front after WWII

Baby Boom

G.I. Bill 1944

Rise of SuburbsWilliam Levitt and Levittown’s

Taft Hartley ActsUnions lose power

Chinabecomes a communist country in

1949Truman Doctrine does not Work!!

America leaves China Cold war Start here

French Indo-China(Vietnam)

Vietnamese vs. France1945-54

Vietnam WinsColonialism vs. Communism

Ho Chi Minh

Palestinian Question

Jews show up by the thousands wanting their homeland.

British leaving area controlled by Palestinian Muslims.

Palestine now Israel