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The Cold War
DAY 2
1st contributing
cause
1st - SU takes over Eastern Europe
1st - SU takes over Eastern Europe1- Wanted buffer states AND “satellite” nations
2 - Wanted a warm water
port
Winston Churchill:
“An iron curtain has descended
across the continent”
2nd contributing
cause
2nd - Truman Doctrine signed
2nd - Truman Doctrine signedGave $660 million to help:
1.Turkey retain its ports2.Greece fight off
Communist guerrillas in their country
Also said U.S. would fight communism from spreading anywhere it doesn’t already exist…
… led to U.S. policy of CONTAINMENT
3rd
contributing cause
3rd – Marshall Plan
3rd – Marshall Plan
$12.5 billion to any country who needed helping rebuilding after
WWII
Had to agree to free trade
SU denounced as US trying to
spread democracy
3rd – Marshall Plan
Yes, we were
trying to help
Europe rebuild…
But,
there was a covert point to
the Marshall Plan…
4th contributing
cause
4th – China becomes Communist
4th – China becomes Communist
Two U.S.
views of Chiang Kai-shek
1.Courageous leader - fought Communists
2. Corrupt leader - gave $3 billion of U.S.’s $3.5 billion donation to friends & family…
instead of helping Chinese people
Sun Yat-sen
Chiang Kai-shek
4th – China becomes Communist
1. Kai-shek didn’t give promised reforms (tax & land)
2. Long March – 6,000 mile march northward after defeat in South = thousands died -- inspirational
3. Communists promised redistribution of land
Mao Zedong
The Chinese began to
support the Communists
1st effect
1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift
1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift
SU blockaded all ground traffic entering into
Western Berlin (Democratic side) for 327 days
1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Why did this happen?US, Fr, Br unified their sections of Germany = West Germany
1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift
SU blockaded all ground traffic entering into
Western Berlin (Democratic side) for 327 days
1st – Berlin Blockade and Airlift
US & Br flew 277,000 flights: dropping 2.5 million tons of
supplies
2nd effect
2nd – Formation of Alliances
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2nd – Alliances are Formed
US formed North Atlantic Treaty Organization
with Britain, Belgium, Canada, France, Iceland,
Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway,
Portugal, Greece, Turkey, West Germany
SU formed the Warsaw Pact with
Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania,
Bulgaria, East Germany
3rd effect
“The Forgotten War”
Korean Conflict1950-1953
Fear of nuclear war
Conflicts with SU in 1960s
SU invaded Czechoslovakia and took it
over
